> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.oddspapi.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Periods per Sport - When fulltime and result Differ > Understand the OddsPapi period vocabulary per sport: when fulltime is a distinct fact, when it collapses into result, and how to group markets by marketType and period without hard-coding assumptions. Every market and every score line carries a `period`. The vocabulary is generic and shared across all sports — `result`, `fulltime`, `p1`, `p1+p2`, `fulltime+overtime`, `p1g6`, and 200-odd more. [Enumerations → period](/api-reference/enumerations#period) is the reference list. This guide answers the question the reference list does not: **which periods a given sport actually has, and why `fulltime` exists for soccer but not for MMA.** *** ## The two whole-match periods | Value | What it is | | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `result` | The score that decides the fixture — everything cumulated, including any overtime, extra time or shootout. Always present, for every sport. | | `fulltime` | The score frozen at the end of regulation, **before** any phase that can still change it. | `result` is never withheld and never derived. If you only ever consume one whole-match period, consume `result`. Every market carries a non-empty `period`. A blank value was possible on a handful of markets until [2026-10-01](/changelog/index); it is not any more. *** ## When does `fulltime` exist? **The rule:** ask *"does this sport have a defined end of regulation, with a further phase after it that can still add to the score?"* **Yes** → `fulltime` is a distinct fact, and markets are offered on both. **No** → `fulltime` and `result` would be two names for one number, so only `result` is published. Soccer is the reason the period exists at all. A cup tie that ends 1–1 after 90 minutes and 2–1 after extra time has two genuinely different answers to "who won": a draw at `fulltime`, a home win at `result`. A 90-minute 1X2 market deliberately excludes what comes after, and that exclusion is the product. ### The discriminator is not "is the sport time-bounded" This is the common mistake. The question is about **a scoring phase after the boundary**, not about clocks. Baseball has no timer. It still has a defined end of regulation — nine innings — and extra innings after it that add runs. So `fulltime` (through nine) and `result` (including extras) are different numbers, and both are published. A bout has a fixed round count, so it looks time-bounded. But nothing after the final round adds to the score: the judges' decision *names a winner*, it does not extend the contest. The score at the end of the final round **is** the result. Publishing `fulltime` there would be a second label for one number, so MMA and boxing markets sit on `result` only. Play-to-target sports have no regulation cutoff at all. There is no moment where the score is provisional and a later phase might move it — the match simply ends. Only `result` (plus the set/leg/frame periods `p1`, `p2`, …). ### Sports where both are published These sports have a scoring phase after regulation — overtime, extra time, a shootout, extra innings or a golden point — so `fulltime` and `result` are distinct: Soccer, Basketball, Baseball, American Football, Ice Hockey, Handball, Rugby, Cricket, Waterpolo, Futsal, Aussie Rules, Field Hockey, Floorball, Beach Soccer, Pesapallo, Lacrosse, Bandy, Kabaddi, Rink Hockey, Gaelic Football, Netball, Gaelic Hurling, Softball, eSoccer, eBasketball — 25 sports. Everywhere else — MMA, Boxing, Tennis, Darts, Snooker, Table Tennis, Volleyball, Squash, Badminton, Curling, Padel, Golf, Cycling, Athletics, Judo, Speedway, Bowls, Cross-Country, Beach Volley, Beach Handball, Basketball 3x3, and every esports title — whole-match markets are on `result`, and there is no `fulltime` bucket to look for. Do not hard-code this list. It is what ships today, and sports get added. Read the `period` off the market itself; treat "this sport has no `fulltime`" as an observation, not a constant. *** ## Soccer's shootout, specifically Soccer is the one sport where the shootout tally is folded into the `result` score rather than being reported as a separate segment. A tie decided 4–3 on penalties after 1–1 is carried as a 1–1 `fulltime` and a shootout-inclusive `result`. Other sports that go to a shootout report the phase separately. This is also why the `penalties` *score* period is cumulative today rather than segment-only — see the note in [Enumerations → period](/api-reference/enumerations#period). *** ## Periods inside the match Beyond the two whole-match values, `period` also names segments. What `p1` means is sport-dependent, which is the whole point of a generic vocabulary: | `p1` is a… | in | | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------- | | half | Soccer, Rugby, Handball | | quarter | Basketball, American Football | | set | Tennis, Volleyball, Table Tennis | | map | Counter-Strike, Valorant, Dota, League of Legends | | inning | Baseball, Softball | | period | Ice Hockey | Use the fixture's `expectedPeriods` and `periodLength` to interpret them rather than branching on `sportId`. Combined segments (`p1+p2` = first half in a quarter sport, `p3+p4+overtime` = second half including OT) and sub-period grids (`p1g6` = game 6 of set 1, `p1r13` = round 13 of map 1) follow the same principle. *** ## Grouping markets in your client Markets are keyed by `marketType` × `period`. Two rules keep that grouping stable: Do not assume a sport offers `fulltime` and fall back to `result` when the lookup misses. If a market is published on `result`, that *is* the whole-match market — an empty `fulltime` bucket is not a gap. `marketId` is sticky: it never changes for a market and never gets reused. `marketType` and `period` are descriptive and can be corrected — as they were on [2026-10-01](/changelog/index), when 26 sports moved their `1x2` from `fulltime` to `result` under exactly the rule above. Clients keyed on `marketId` saw nothing; clients keyed on `marketType` × `period` had to regroup. The period vocabulary is **append-only** — new sports introduce new keys (esports round grids are the most recent). Pass unknown period strings through rather than rejecting them. *** ## Related The full reference list of period values. Which market types exist per sport, and how they are scoped. Combining legs across periods and fixtures. Registry changes, including period corrections.