How to Add Live Scores to Your OBS Stream

If you're livestreaming high school or college sports, your viewers expect to see the score on screen. Manually updating a text source every time someone scores is tedious, error-prone, and takes your attention away from the production. ScoreBird eliminates all of that.

The Problem with Manual Score Entry

Most broadcast setups rely on someone watching the scoreboard and typing the score into OBS manually. This creates several issues:

• Delays — the score on screen is always behind the action
• Errors — transposed numbers, missed updates, wrong quarter
• Staffing — you need a dedicated person just to keep scores current
• Distraction — if the producer is also entering scores, the broadcast quality suffers

How ScoreBird Solves This

NeST connects directly to your scoreboard controller and reads the live data — score, period, time, team names, and more. That data is sent to ScoreBird's cloud platform in real-time, where it powers a customizable broadcast overlay.

In OBS Studio, you add this overlay as a Browser Source. That's it. The overlay updates automatically every time the scoreboard changes. No manual input required.

Setting It Up

Here's the high-level process:

1. Connect NeST to your scoreboard controller
2. Log into ScoreBird and configure your overlay design — choose colors, layout, and sport-specific display options
3. Copy the overlay URL from your ScoreBird dashboard
4. In OBS Studio, add a new Browser Source to your scene
5. Paste the overlay URL and set the width/height to match your layout
6. Position the overlay in your scene — bottom third, corner, wherever fits your production

The overlay is transparent outside the score area, so it layers cleanly over your camera feed or game footage.

What Data Shows on the Overlay

The overlay pulls every data point your scoreboard controller sends:

• Home and away team names
• Current score
• Period / quarter / half / inning
• Game clock
• Timeouts remaining
• Possession indicator
• Down and distance (football)
• And more depending on the sport

Works Beyond OBS

While OBS Studio is the most popular free option, ScoreBird's browser-based overlays work with any streaming platform that supports browser sources or web inputs. That includes vMix, Boxcast, Hudl, and the NFHS Network.

Watch: ScoreBird Setup Demo

Get Started

Ready to add professional live scoring to your broadcasts? Get started with ScoreBird and see how NeST can transform your livestream production.

For more tutorials, visit the ScoreBird YouTube channel.