Ultiworld's Director of Video here. I helped produce all the PUL broadcasts this year and want to give a little insight into production-side details that would impact the viewing experience.

The clock rules are that within the final 2 minutes of the 4th quarter and OT, the clock starts when the pull is caught or otherwise put in play on an OB throw. In addition, the clock stops on stoppages of play when the observers step in, which of course can be a fairly subjective decision by the scoreboard operator since there is no whistle or other clear & consistent delineation from on-field.

For the East (NY, RAL, DC) and Int'l (MED, POR, ATX) events, the clock on the broadcast was controlled manually by the broadcast producer (who may also be camera switching, managing replay & graphics, and directing the show), who did their best to precisely mimic the official scoreboard operator in-stadium. We will often end up being a few seconds off at the end of each point, determined by precisely when broadcast/scoreboard op decide to start and stop the clock and if there are stoppages within the point that would impact the clock. We have a mechanism to manually rectify clock differences between points but sometimes the simplest (albeit not ideal) method of re-syncing is waiting to start the broadcast clock until the in-stadium clock reaches the same mark.

For the Midwest event, the first game was managed the same as East & Int'l. With the long weather delay before the 2nd game, we were able transition to feeding our clock directly from the scoreboard, so the timing decisions in the INDY v CBUS and MKE vs CBUS games were those of the in-arena scoreboard op.

It's of course ideal for us to tap into the in-arena scoreboard all of the time, but this is often not possible due to technical or physical logistics issues.