a live scoring that can be employed without plugins thereby enhancing reliability and scalability is provided . moreover , the live scoring system utilizes a pull model which does not require persistent connections to a live scoring source , server or network . furthermore , in view of the inherent characteristic of live scoring systems being resource intensive applications , e . g ., require a large amount of processing power to calculate the scores of all players for all teams across all leagues , a client - side scoring / calculation system is employed . the distributed approach used by the system can particularly offload the burden of processing the updates most of the time to clients , without sacrificing down - level browsers &# 39 ; ability to view the latest scores .