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title: "Publish match recaps sooner"
description: "A four-step playbook to connect confirmed stats and media notes, draft recaps in your style, check every fact against the official feed and have an editor approve each piece."
url: https://lidvizion.ai/guides/publish-match-recaps-sooner/
site: Lid Vizion
index: https://lidvizion.ai/llms.txt
---

[Field guides](https://lidvizion.ai/guides/) 4 steps

# Publish match recaps sooner

A four-step playbook to connect confirmed stats and media notes, draft recaps in your style, check every fact against the official feed and have an editor approve each piece.

For: Club, league and school media teams who write recaps and posts after every fixture.

Fans want the recap while the game is still fresh, but writing every report from scratch limits how much a small media team can cover. Drafting from confirmed stats and the team’s own notes, with an editor approving each piece, gets coverage out sooner and reaches more fixtures. These four steps start with one competition and keep editors in charge of what is published.

## Step 1 — Write the style guide

**Goal:** Decide how recaps should read.

1. Collect a few recaps and posts the team is proud of.
2. Write a short style guide with tone, length and naming rules.
3. Agree who approves content for each team or competition.
4. Pick one competition to start with.

**You finish with:** A style guide, examples and approvers.

## Step 2 — Connect the sources

**Goal:** Draft only from confirmed facts.

1. Read stats from the official feed once they are confirmed.
2. Collect the media team’s notes and approved quotes in one place.
3. Keep player and staff names in a maintained list.
4. Time a few recent recaps as a baseline.

**You finish with:** Confirmed stats, notes and names ready for drafting.

## Step 3 — Draft, check and approve

**Goal:** Publish accurate content quickly.

1. Draft a recap and short posts in the style guide.
2. Flag any name, score or statistic that does not match the feed.
3. Have an editor edit and approve every piece.
4. Publish approved content to the agreed channels.

**You finish with:** Approved recaps and posts published soon after the game.

## Step 4 — Measure and refine

**Goal:** Show faster, broader coverage.

1. Track time from final whistle to approved recap.
2. Track how many fixtures and teams get coverage.
3. Review corrections and update the style guide.
4. Add competitions only after the first one works.

**You finish with:** Measured turnaround and wider coverage.

## Common pitfalls

- Publishing drafts before an editor approves them.
- Drafting from unconfirmed stats or rumours.
- Inventing or altering quotes.
- Starting with every competition at once.

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## Start with a workflow audit

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## See it as a workflow

- [Match report drafts from stats and notes](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/match-report-drafts-from-stats-and-notes/): Sports & field operations Draft match reports, recaps and short social posts from the official stats feed and the media team’s notes, in the club’s own style, so editors polish and approve content instead of writing every recap from scratch after the final whistle.

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