An adapter is the bridge between Virtual Stadium and your betting infrastructure, enabling real-time odds display and betting features within the social platform.
An adapter is a piece of code that connects your data source (such as a backend API or database) to the Virtual Stadium widgets displayed to users. It listens for requests from the widget, processes them, fetches the necessary data, and then sends a response back to the widget.
Think of the adapter as a translator that ensures seamless communication between your backend and the widget, enabling real-time data synchronization for events, odds, outcomes, and betting functionality.
Virtual Stadium offers two implementation approaches:
A Sportradar-managed solution where we host and maintain the adapter infrastructure for you.
This approach is best for organizations using Sportradar odds exclusively and looking for faster time to market (2-4 weeks). It requires significantly less technical implementation effort, making it ideal for teams with limited backend resources. The hosted adapter comes with pre-built core functionality that is maintained and updated by Sportradar, resulting in a faster implementation timeline and reduced development and maintenance burden. However, it's limited to Sportradar odds and offers less customization flexibility.
A custom solution that you build and maintain on your own infrastructure.
This approach is for organizations using third-party or mixed odds sources, those needing custom business logic, or teams wanting full control over the integration. It requires dedicated backend developers but provides complete flexibility and control, supporting any odds provider with custom business logic implementation and full code ownership. The tradeoff is a longer development time (1-3 months), and you're responsible for maintaining and updating the code, which requires ongoing backend development resources.