How to add a live scorebug overlay to OBS

Launch the app from your dashboard

Sign in, open your dashboard and click LAUNCH on Multi-Sport ScoreBug. Free accounts see a FREE MODE chip at the top of the settings page and a panel spelling out exactly where the line sits.

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Copy your overlay URL

The Overlay URL card sits at the top of the settings page. Hit COPY. This URL is unique to your account and it is the only thing OBS ever needs — every setting below applies to it live.

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Add a browser source in OBS

1. Sources panel → + → Browser, name it "ScoreBug".
2. Paste your overlay URL.
3. Set Width 1920 and Height 1080, then OK.

Leave the source at full 1080p and leave it where it lands — the bug anchors itself inside that canvas at the position you choose in settings, and everything around it is transparent. Resizing or cropping the OBS source is the single most common way people end up with a soft, mis-placed scorebug.

Turn on your leagues and pick a game

The Leagues card groups everything by sport — Baseball, NBA / WNBA, NFL, NHL, College, and four soccer groups (Major Leagues, European Cups, International, Women's). Each group has a Select all shortcut. Toggle on whatever you cover and the Upcoming Games list below fills with that day's slate across all of them, live games sorted to the top, each card tagged with a sport pill. Click a card and it's on your overlay.

Two baseball toggles open extra choices. Switch on MiLB and you get level checkboxes — Triple-A, Double-A, High-A and Single-A (Triple-A is the default). Switch on Winter Ball and you get six leagues: LIDOM, LMP, LVBP, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean Series and the Arizona Fall League. Winter ball only runs roughly October through late January (with the Caribbean Series in early February), so outside that window the slate is legitimately empty — use the date picker in the games header to look at a date in season.

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Pick a theme — the ten-design tour

The Theme card holds ten designs. Six are general-purpose bars and Primetime Broadcast is always offered; the remaining three — World Cup 26, MLB Pitch Bug and Elegant — appear only when the game you picked qualifies. Each theme keeps its own position, scale, opacity, offsets, transitions and colors — switch away and back and your setup for that design is exactly as you left it.

• Standard and Compact — the clean default bar, full-size and trimmed.
• Classic and Classic Compact — a squarer, more traditional network cut.
• Industrial and Industrial Compact — heavier chrome, harder edges, built to read over busy gameplay.
• Primetime Broadcast — the universal team-color bar. Panels take each club's real colors, and it is one of the two designs (Elegant is the other) that draw baseball themselves, so it is offered on every game in the app.
• World Cup 26 — gold-emblem tournament bar, offered only on a FIFA World Cup match (or a hand-entered soccer game, where the badge takes your own event crest).
• MLB Pitch Bug — baseball only: count, bases, outs, live pitch readout and a rotating stats lip. Pick any baseball game and the app switches to this automatically — unless you are already on Primetime Broadcast or Elegant, which draw baseball themselves and stay put.
• Elegant — the wide chamfered-steel network bug, with a purpose-cut variant for every sport family: baseball, football, basketball, hockey and soccer.

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Primetime Broadcast is the safest pick if you cover several sports in one show — nothing ever falls back on you.

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Elegant is the newest of the ten and the most sport-aware. Its info lip changes with the sport: drive and last-play detail plus timeout pips for football, leaders and the quarter line for basketball, shots on goal, power play and penalty minutes for hockey, goals, shots, possession and cards for soccer. It also swaps each club to a light- or dark-background logo variant depending on how bright the panel behind it is, so crests never disappear into their own panel.

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For baseball, the MLB Pitch Bug carries the count, the bases, the outs and a 3D stat carousel under the bar. It works identically on MiLB and winter-ball games — same live pitch-by-pitch data pipeline, just a different level.

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Free mode ships a subset of the ten; the free-vs-paid panel further down this page is the authority on which.

Colour it — presets, five zones, and team panels

The Color Scheme card starts with eight broadcast presets — Default Navy, Midnight Gold, Ocean Cyan, Red Alert, Forest, Royal Purple, Broadcast White and Hot Pink. These are the same swatches the Broadcast Ticker and Scoreboard offer, so one click gives your whole overlay package a shared palette.

Under the presets are five hand-settable zones, each with a color picker and a hex field. Their labels change to match the theme you're on, because the same zone paints something different in each design: on the default bars they read Background, Clock Panel, Text, Info Bar Bg and Info Bar Text; on the Pitch Bug they become Frame, Pitch Panel, Text, Stats Lip and Lip Text; on Primetime, Score Boxes, Gold Accent, Score Text and the two lip fields. The four signature themes start on their own broadcast palette — change any one color and only that color overrides.

On the Pitch Bug and Elegant you also get a separate Team Panels pair. Leave them unset and each side wears its club's official color; set one and it holds until you click Use team color to revert. The dashed Team Colors pill above the presets clears both at once. It's a separate axis from the presets: Team Colors governs the two team panels, the presets restyle the chrome around them.

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Place it, size it, and set the refresh rate

Position is a 3×3 grid — nine anchors, from top-left to bottom-right. Bottom-center is the classic broadcast spot. The Display card then fine-tunes it: Scale from 0.4× to 2.0×, Opacity from 20% to 100%, and Offset X / Offset Y sliders (±800px horizontally, ±600px vertically, in 5px steps) to nudge the bug off its anchor — useful when you need to clear a webcam frame or a chat box.

Refresh Rate controls how often the overlay asks for new data. On a paid plan the menu runs 3, 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 seconds. Worth knowing: during live play, non-soccer games refresh at least every 5 seconds regardless of the rate you picked — the clock is drawn from what was last polled, so the app refuses to let it drift. Soccer honours your setting exactly, because its clock counts up locally between polls and re-syncs on each one, flowing into stoppage time (45+2′, 90+3′) like television. Pre-game the overlay idles and wakes about five minutes before first pitch or kickoff; at halftime it slows down; at Final it stops polling entirely.

The Stream Delay slider (0–180 seconds) holds every overlay update back by that many seconds, so a bug on a delayed stream never spoils a play before your viewers see it. Under Transitions — a collapsed section — you can set separate in and out animations from thirteen options: fade, four slides, scale, flip, bounce, blur, three wipes, or none.

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Baseball: the At-Bat Stat Card

Pick a baseball game and the settings page grows an At-Bat Stat Card section. This is a second, separately anchored graphic for whoever is at the plate — it has its own position grid, scale, width and offsets, so it can live on the opposite side of the screen from the bug rather than crowding it. It costs no extra data: everything it draws comes out of the same live payload the scorebug is already polling. It's a paid feature — view plans.

Design defaults to Match my theme, which dresses the card in whatever your bug is wearing — three theme slabs (Pitch, Elegant, Broadcast) exist for exactly that. Beyond them: Duel Chip (batter and pitcher facing off across the count), Slugger Plate and Heater Rail (1200×260 and 940×260 lower thirds, cut for the hitter's and the pitcher's line), and Marquee — a full-frame 1920×1080 cinema card for a between-innings beat.

Three dropdowns decide its behaviour. Who it shows: the batter, the pitcher, or both. Where the player comes from: match the score bug, always the live at-bat, or always your hand-entered lineup. When it appears: stay up while the player changes underneath, pop in on each new batter and hide after 4–30 seconds, or move only when you trigger it. Then tick what goes on it — the player photo (headshot silo or the full-body action pose, on the designs that can carry one), today's line, season numbers, and career vs this pitcher.

One touch worth calling out: between half-innings there is nobody in the box, so the card swaps itself to a DUE UP board of the next three hitters — which is what a real broadcast puts on screen in that gap — and swaps back when the next batter steps in.

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Scroll through the whole slate

Tick Scroll through games and the bug stops showing one matchup and starts cycling the day's slate for the leagues you toggled on, live games first, with a dissolve between games so it reads like a broadcast cut rather than a flicker. Seconds per game runs from 4 to 20 (8 is the default).

The active theme decides what actually scrolls, because some designs are built for one sport: MLB Pitch Bug scrolls baseball only, World Cup 26 scrolls FIFA only, Primetime Broadcast and Elegant scroll everything including baseball, and the six general themes scroll your picked leagues minus baseball — baseball has no generic bar in this app, it always gets a purpose-built one.

No feed? Score it yourself with Manual Mode

The Game Source card has two buttons: 📡 Live Data and ✍️ Manual Scoring. Manual Scoring turns off the game picker, game scrolling and all live polling, and hands you a hand-entered game instead — the answer for high school, college club, beer league, rec-league softball, or any competition no feed carries. It works on every account, free and paid alike, because typed-in scores cost no live data.

Choose a sport template — Baseball / Softball, Basketball, Football, Soccer, Hockey, Volleyball or Custom — then enter team names, abbreviations, colors and logos. A sticky Game Control bar pins itself to the top of the page with everything a scorer actually touches: ±score steppers, the clock (set / start / pause — US sports count down, soccer counts up), the period control, and the sport's own situation controls. Baseball gets plate-appearance chips — K, BB, HBP, 1B, 2B, 3B, HR, Out, Sac — that tally the batter and pitcher, move the runners, update the count and outs, and walk the batting order in one tap. Every tap rides the same live socket as your settings, so it lands on stream the moment you press it — no polling interval to wait out.

Run it during the show

Once it's built you shouldn't need the settings page mid-broadcast. The Visibility card has Show Score Bug and, on baseball / Pitch / Elegant, Show stats lip for the rotating info bar. Both are also driven by the Command Center board and by physical Stream Deck keys through the StreamSlayers plugin (v1.18.0) — including a Set Game key that switches the bug to a different matchup from the deck. Whatever changes it, the settings page and the overlay both follow along in real time, so the checkboxes never go stale on you.

Pair it with the Scoreboard for the bigger between-plays card, or with the MLB ScoreBug if baseball is your main beat and you want the full box score and lineup overlays alongside it.