The Stoppage Event Buttons

Matchstats records the start and end times of ten standard football-match stoppage events:

The main screen image on the right shows the buttons to be pressed in order to start the timer for each of these events.

In order to view what appears on the app screen after one of these buttons is pressed, just click on the image of the button.

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Dealing with Substitutions

Matchstats assumes that substitution of players can only occur during one of the the stoppage events listed above. On every stoppage event screen, a "Make Subs" button is available to record the fact that substitutions have been maded during one of these events (individual substitutions are not to be counted!).This will increment a "substitutions" count by one. The user must just press the "Make Subs" button after all substitutions have been made and before timing for that event is ended by the user clicking on the event image.

The number of times that this button is pressed during a match can therefore be recorded. If a standard time allowance is in force to account for substitutions to be made during a particular pause in play, then an estimate of the total time taken up with substitution manoevrings can eventually be made by multiplying this standard allowance by the count made of the substitution events. At present, Matchstats assumes that the allowance is 30 seconds per substitution.

Red and Yellow Card events

The amount of time taken up in dealing with a red or a yellow card that contributes to the overall stoppage time for an event will not be recorded seperately by Matchstats. The time is just included with the offence that caused the issuing of the card.

VAR and Timing Events

On every stoppage event screen, both a "Start VAR" button and a "End VAR" button is available to time a VAR consultation.Thus, VAR times are only recorded for pauses marked by the pressing of "Start VAR" and "End VAR" buttons that are provided when the event image is made visible.

Matchstats provides the option for timing VAR during each event on the list, although it is likely that VAR will only be consulted for making decisions involving possible goals, penalties, fouls leading to penalties and off-sides.

Even though, by using Matchstats, a seperate total can then be kept for those periods of time taken up by VAR review and consultation, that total time is also included with the times covered between the start and end of the events during which VAR is consulted.

Thus the total of VAR consultation times is not to be treated as an additional amount of stoppage time to be added to the overall stoppage time total, as it will already have been included within the event stoppage time totals. The measured VAR consultation time total can be used to compute what the total event stoppage time would have been without VAR intervention.

"LPUP" and "LPIP"

It was felt to be of interest for Matchstats to record, not just the length of individual stoppage events, but also the length of the periods of time between stoppages. The current LPIP, or "Longest Period of Interrupted Play" is updated by Matchstats every time that a stoppage event is terminated. The current LPUP, or "Longest Period of Uninterrupted Play" is updated by Matchstats every time that the start of the next stoppage event (or the Half- or Full-time) is flagged by the user. LPUP and LPIP are displayed in the State of Play screen.

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Mis-identified Events

It can happen that, for example, a foul event called by the referee can change to another on reflection, perhaps after consulting the VAR. For example, an obvious foul (or handball) near the edge of the penalty area can be flagged by the user as a foul or handball event by pressing the appropriate button, but which, after a VAR consultation, the referee changes to a penalty. In this case, the user should terminate the original event (foul or handball) and immediately start the penalty event and proceed as normal for the penalty.

A similar situation arises in the case of the ball crossing the goal line, normally the trigger for flagging a goal event, after which a VAR consultation might result in a preceding foul or off-side decision nullifying it. In this case, the goal event must be speedily terminated and the revised free-kick event immediately triggered.

The main effect of this particular confusion is to seperate what might be a candidate for "Longest Period of Interrupted Play", LPIP, into two seperate shorter periods. But overall, almost exactly the same total time lost to play is covered.

Retaken Free-Kick Events

The normal procedure for the user to time an event is to terminate it as soon as the ball returns into play, either by a throw or a kick. However, if the referee orders the throw-in or kick to be retaken, then the user must flag a repeat event as if it is a new event, and terminate it in the normal way.