How hard is it to make a good sports widget?

Okay, I’ve been trying to find a good sports widget for the past year or so. Here’s all the apps I’ve tried:

Superfan

Bleacher Report

Sports Alert

Yahoo Sports

Apple Sports

theScore

Real Sports

Fox Sports

NBC Sports

That is too many. For how many I tried, there should be at least one good sports widget that tells me the score of my favorite teams. But they always have some stupid feature. Superfan only lets you choose one team, theScore and Sports Alerts’ widgets just look bad. All the other ones either don’t have one or aren’t good. The one I’ve landed on is Bleacher Report, and even that is never updated and look bad. But why is it so hard to make one? It’s just taking my favorite teams page and squishing it into a rectangle. Here’s what I want:

  1. Updates once a minute

  2. Shows my favorited teams

  3. Let’s me rank my teams so that if I like a team more, that will show over the baseball team barely like

  4. Matches system setting for light/dark mode

  5. Allows group sports, like F1 and PGA

I’m not an app developer, but based on the complexities of these respective apps, I don’t think this is too big of an ask.

If y’all have a better sports widget, feel free to email me at techtabloidblog@gmail.com. Until then, I’ll just wait to see if ESPN can drop a good widget.

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