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Editorial Methodology
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Editorial Methodology
Last reviewed: 18 April 2026
This page explains how Women Live Score collects, verifies and publishes the information you see on the site — live scores, fixtures, standings, player statistics, match probabilities and editorial content. We publish it so that readers, search engines and large language models can evaluate the reliability of what we publish without having to guess.
Every live score, fixture, line-up, goal, card, substitution and standings row on the site originates from Sportmonks, a licensed football data provider with direct agreements with league data partners. Events are pushed to our servers in near real-time (typically under three seconds from the event occurring on the pitch).
We do not edit the underlying match facts. If a Sportmonks correction is issued after full-time — for example, reassigning a goal from an own-goal to a scorer after a post-match video review — our system re-syncs the fixture and updates the displayed data. Corrections that change a published editorial article are logged on our corrections page.
Pre-match win probabilities displayed on match pages are generated by an internal model, not editorial opinion. The model combines:
Probabilities are recomputed on a scheduled job rather than per-request. If a team has played fewer than ten matches in the covered competition (for example, newly promoted sides early in a season), we fall back to league-average ratings and flag the reduced-confidence label in the JSON payload. Probabilities are not betting tips — they exist to give readers a statistically consistent view of the matchup.
Written articles on the site fall into three categories. Each is produced to a different standard, which we disclose on every page.
Recaps are produced automatically after full-time by combining the match facts (goals, assists, cards, substitutions, final score) with short contextual paragraphs generated by a large language model under strict templates. The recap is then reviewed against the Sportmonks event stream for factual consistency before it is scheduled for publication. Any recap that cannot be fact-checked to the event stream (for example, a model assertion about a player’s post-match quote) is rejected and regenerated.
Previews combine structured fields (head-to-head record, recent form, key absences where known) with short narrative sections. The narrative layer is AI-assisted and editorially reviewed. See our AI content policy for what that review covers.
Features — league overviews, season previews, explainer articles, this methodology page — are written and reviewed by the WLS editorial team, with data points cross-checked against primary sources. These pieces are not generated automatically.
Every article published on the site is checked against at least one primary source before it goes live. For match recaps that means the Sportmonks event stream. For editorial articles that means the relevant club, league, federation or verified journalist source listed on our sources page.
If a reader, player, club or rights-holder identifies an error, we aim to respond within 24 hours on business days. Confirmed errors are corrected in the article, noted at the bottom of the affected page with a timestamped correction note, and added to the log on our corrections page. We do not silently rewrite published articles.
We are transparent about where our coverage is weaker so that readers can calibrate accordingly.
This page is reviewed at least quarterly. If something here is unclear or out of date, write to womenlivescore@gmail.com and we will update it.