Accidentally deleted my message. Those are all viewer bugs that are well documented and people have reported multiple times.
Possessions lasting 40 seconds are nowhere to be seen in the pbp so it's a viewer problem.
FT shooters being subbed out before making the FT is also a viewer problem (actions all happen at the same second of the game, but they are reported in the wrong order in the viewer).
Some blocks are reported as misses in the viewer, but they are shown correctly as blocks in the pbp (and the team detail page during the game).
The steals problem is somewhat different as it would require to change the feed of both the viewer and the pbp from 'player x strips the ballhandler and comes up with a steal' to 'player x strips player y and comes up with a stead' or from 'player x intercepts a pass' to 'player x intercepts a pass by player y'. You could even just add a line for turnovers as you have for assists, the information is available, it goes into the boxscore and you can see the turnover in the team detail page in the viewer, it's the feed that is lacking in this case. There may be more stuff. I'm asking about the steal issue because it is the only things that is missing to build a boxscore from the pbp.
I assume that the pbp is actually the source of the viewer's feed (together with information on the shot location).
In any case the most pressing matter is what happens to the viewer when flash is not supported anymore. It would be nice to have some feedback on this.
Last edited by Lemonshine at 06/05/2019 07:55:15