Although a lot of sporting arenas have newer, larger, more advanced displays with awesome resolution and graphics they still don't post the real-time stats on the screen during the live-action feed of the game. At home while I'm watching the game on TV I get the score, down, quarter and minutes left graphically displayed in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. Why can't this same thing be done on the larger screens while I'm watching the game live in the arena. Instead, they often have a separate, low-tech, LED screen somewhere else in the arena that I have to keep switching to look at in order to know the current stats of the game. So, this seems like it would be fairly easy to implement -- maybe not, I don't know for sure. It is worth investigating. Start with Ford Field in Downtown Detroit please..
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I imagine that as screen technology improves and the costs drop, you might even see them incorporating stuff like this into seatbacks and providing even more detailed information than what your asking for.
This may be the function of what kind of TV production the arenas do for thier screens. If a LCD screen carries live images, it can surely carry any data that is fed to it. But the reason arenas don't do this is becuase of the production costs involved
All this stuff just destracts from watching the game, and makes it harder to remember whats going on. So then you just need more stats to look for.
I'm OK with the existing various scoreboards around carrying the score, down, quarter, etc because this is all information you know if you are watching the game. It doesn't have to be extraordinarily conveinent because I'm not consulting it very often (other than perhaps Yds to go for a 1st down since my vantage point isn't the greatest). Most stadiums I've been to (admittedly a small number) have the information in enough places that it's pretty conveinent.
What I want are the stats one won't know from just watching the game. How many rushing yards does Faulk have so far? What's the 3rd down efficiency of the opponent so far this week? These kinds of stats appear on TV all the time, yet are completely unavailble to those in the stadium.
This may be different in other stadiums, but in the Edward Jones Dome, we get a quarterly update of the main team stats (like on TV), however, we get the update halfway into the next quarter. By then the numbers are way out of date and not particularly interesting. If TV can have them up to the second (even on the Nat'l shows broadcast thousands of miles away), why can't I have those stats in the same building?
Similarly, the out of town scoreboard is maddening. It updates every 5-10 minutes and even its updates lag behind real time. That was fine 10 years ago, but now on my home PC I can get detailed text play-by-play of every game played and it runs only about 30 seconds behind the live game. Stadiums must pay a lot for the score service but all they need to do is put one guy on sportsline.com and update the LED boards as the scores change. It'd be cheap and easy and faster than what they do now.