Sports metadata -- is there a way to automate this?

[flashls82 6]

Does anyone have tips and tricks to share for the cleanest/most automated way to get Emby to pull correct metadata for live recordings of sports? I have TheSportsDB plugin installed; it correctly scrapes info for individual games but only when the filename exactly matches TheSportsDB's suggested naming exactly, which requires renaming a recording after the fact. On top of that, I haven't found a way to get Emby to match the "show" name to the relevant league in TheSportsDB (e.g. NBA, NFL), even when I rename the folder with the show to the exact name and try to hard code the correct TheSportsDB id for that league in the metadata. 

Has anyone found a way to better automate the renaming that has to happen? And what is the best-case scenario for the leagues/show names -- just manually pull stuff and lock the item (and then I guess manually move episodes over to the right folder)?