How our stories are written
Keel Stats publishes game recaps, game previews, season previews, news from insiders' reports and live notes during games. Each one is built from our own data, every number in it is checked, and editors look at whatever the checks cannot clear. Each story says how it was made.
From our data
Each story starts from facts we compute: a game's box score and play by play, both teams' records and ratings, the players' seasons, and for a preview the market's odds and, in the NBA, our projection. Everything the text may need is computed beforehand from the data.
Every number checked
Every number in a story must be found in the facts it was written from: as given, rounded, or as a percentage. A story with any other number is not published until an editor has looked at it.
MethodologyWho publishes
A recap or a preview whose numbers all check out can be published as soon as it is written. News from insiders is published without an editor only when it is official or reported by an insider we trust; rumors, and stories the checks flagged, wait for an editor. An editor can correct, publish, reject or take back any story.
Sources
A news story names its source in the first paragraph and writes reported news as reported (“is trading”, not “has traded”); a title that rests on a single report starts with “Report:”. The original posts are shown under the story, with links to them.
Live notes
During games, a short note marks each moment that matters: a scoring run, a late lead change, a big play, the end of a quarter. Each is written from the game as it stood and published at once; a note whose numbers do not check out is never shown.
What we do not write
No betting advice and no picks. A story says only what the reports and our data contain: no terms, dates, reasons or reactions they do not give.
Corrections
Found a mistake? Write to [email protected] or use “Report a problem” at the bottom of any page. Editors can correct a published story at any time.
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