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Watching matches live is a great experience in BB, but sometimes, a match is missed and watching a replay is the way to go. While our match viewer has the ability to skip to a certain point in the match, the option is pretty limited and requires typing, clicking and reloading, which can be cumbersome and time consuming. To improve the experience of watching replays, we've added a speed control slider which can speed up the match up to 5 times normal speed! Skim over timeouts or other slow bits and get to the good stuff faster, and then slow back down when you reach the exciting bits.

Additionally, a "Skip" button is available during game breaks between quarters and during the halftime break. Clicking the button skips over the break and you're right back in action.

Obviously, these two options are only available for replays and not live games, but we're certain they will improve the experience of watching replays immensely, especially as they require no reloads.

There are a couple of other smaller improvements added to the site, unrelated to the match viewer. The transfer list search has been expanded with two new options - injury and NT status. Injured players can be both excluded or searched specifically, while finding NT members is now a breeze. And lastly, the league overview page now shows bot teams in gray, for easier identification of your tougher, human controlled competition.

That's all for now, we're taking a little break with the features due to the offseason coming up soon and then we're back with a major update. Hope you enjoy our new features!

When I first saw this post I thought it was going to be an April Fools joke.

Love all the new features, keep up the great work.

And lastly, the league overview page now shows bot teams in gray, for easier identification of your tougher, human controlled competition.

It might be a very small change but it is highly appreciated! Many thanks for this one!

Edit: the viewer now always starts at the beginning of the game. It used to bring us at the current playing time and this doesn't allow us to watch only the end of the game live.

Last edited by Nico4nicolas at 04/02/2018 07:25:34

I dont know if this problem is related to this new replay option but at the moment I have U21 match vs Lithuania...and every time I choose to watch the match it starts from the beginnig...
Can't I watch games live anymore or what? :D

Same here too

Rather than continuing with the "same here", if you feel like typing "same here" or anything else about the viewer bug where live games are started at the beginning rather than the current live time of game, please follow up on the thread in the Bugs forum: (292943.1)

Thanks Hru, I agree.

Also, I've tried to fix the issue with live games and hopefully, it should be fine now. If it's not, I'll be around to fix as soon as I can (I don't have a lot of faith in the fix as I had no way to test properly after all live matches ended).

Give us "live" 15 minutes before the game, just from the moment when you cannot adjust a roster and tactics anymore.
It can be blank inside (rosters, stats, play-by-play), and counting clock from 15:00 to 0:00 pre-game, but I would appreciate the opportunity to get into earlier so I can enjoy the game live from the very beginning and not only just after it starts.