About Laro Ngayon: where these numbers come from
An independent PBA scoreboard: its sources, its reading times and how a score becomes final.
Laro Ngayon is an independent scoreboard at larongayon.com: not the league, and neither affiliated with nor endorsed by it. Games, scores and standings come from the English Wikipedia article of the running PBA conference, re-read every 15 minutes in a game window, with the read time printed in Manila time. A score is final only when two readings at least 30 minutes apart agree.
Laro Ngayon is an independent scoreboard for Philippine Basketball Association games. It is not the PBA, is not affiliated with the league and is not endorsed by it: the league's own sites are www.pba.ph and www.pba.com.ph (read 21.10.2026).
Games, scores, standings and the playoff bracket are read from the English Wikipedia article of the running conference and its bracket template through the standard MediaWiki API — every 15 minutes while a game is on, once an hour otherwise. Every page prints the time it was read. A score is published as final only after the same figure survives two readings at least 30 minutes apart and the quarters add up to the total; until then it is marked as being confirmed. A score edited after it went final returns to being confirmed and has to pass the check again.
Nothing is sold here: no bets, no odds, no tips, no accounts and no contests.
What you’ll find here
- What this site is, and what it is not: an independent scoreboard, not the league
- Where the numbers come from: the running conference article and its bracket, read through the MediaWiki API
- How often the board is re-read: every 15 minutes in a game window, hourly otherwise
- How a score becomes final: two readings at least 30 minutes apart, with the quarters adding up
- What happens to a corrected score: back to being confirmed, and logged
- The league's own channels: www.pba.ph, www.pba.com.ph and PBA The APP
What Laro Ngayon is and what it is not
Laro Ngayon is an independent scoreboard at larongayon.com. It is not the Philippine Basketball Association and is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by the league. No figure here arrives through a league feed or a partnership: everything is read from public pages and carries the time it was read.
What is it for, then? One narrow job: showing whether there is a PBA game today, what the score is, and whether that number can be trusted. If you need statements from the league, its live stream or its app, this page is the wrong door.
Where the numbers come from
The source is named, not vague. Games, scores and standings are read from the English Wikipedia article of the running PBA conference — its group-stage matrix and its basketballbox playoff boxes — and the playoff bracket template, all opened through the standard MediaWiki API.
Those cells are edited by people, so a correction upstream reaches the board late, and the board can show an older figure in the meantime. Quarter scores, totals and series lines are limited to what that article and template carry.
Those sources are the 2026 PBA Governors’ Cup article on Wikipedia with its playoff bracket template and, for league background, the Philippine Basketball Association article.
How often the board is re-read
The board re-reads its source every 15 minutes inside a game window, counted from 15 minutes before tip-off until the game is final, and once an hour outside a window, at most 60 requests a day for the whole board. That cadence is deliberately modest.
Each page prints the time of its last read in Manila time (PHT, Asia/Manila). The daily boundary is not midnight there: 'today' and 'ngayon' change over at 05:00 PHT, so a reader in another timezone should check that clock before hunting for a score.
How a score becomes final, and how a correction is handled
A number is not final because it looks finished. The same score has to survive two readings at least 30 minutes apart after the game's estimated end, and the quarters have to add up to the total. A score that fails is published as pending, never as final.
When a published score turns out wrong, it returns to being confirmed: it drops back to pending and has to pass the check again, and the edit is logged. The scores page shows that status beside each game, so you can see how a score becomes final here before repeating it.
What this site does not publish
No bets are taken, no odds are quoted, no accounts are opened, no prizes are given and nothing is sold. Nobody here asks for payment or a signup. If a page ever appears to want money or credentials, that is not this site's method and you should leave.
Also missing: full game protocols, frame-by-frame statistics, live commentary and any answer from the league itself. The board is limited to what the conference article and the bracket template carry. For deeper coverage, including the league's live stream, the league's own channels are the place to go.
The league's own site and app
The league's own websites are www.pba.ph and www.pba.com.ph, run by the Philippine Basketball Association, with the site powered by Pen One Digital Corporation. Its application is PBA The APP. Registration and account opening are required for certain sections and are free of charge.
Questions reach the league through its own Send us a Message page and feature, not through this guide. Its main offices sit along Eulogio Rodriguez Jr. Avenue (C-5 road), Eastwood City, Libis, Quezon City. Facts about the league printed here are re-checked every 30 days, and the read date stays visible.
The method in figures
| What is measured | Figure |
|---|---|
| Days between re-checks of the league facts | 30 days |
| Readings a score must survive before it is published | 30 minutes apart |
| Tolerance allowed for a late reading | 30 seconds |
| Audit copies kept of the source pages | 300 |
| Live figures refreshed during a game | every 15 minutes |
| Live figures refreshed outside game hours | every 60 minutes |
| Requests this board may make to the source in a day | 60 |
| Delay between the source poll and the board rebuild | 5 min |
| Hour the Manila day turns over on this board | 05:00 PHT |
These figures describe the reading rules of this board; the league facts behind them come from pba.ph, read 21.10.2026.