About The Matchups

The Matchups puts the numbers behind a game in one place: who's playing, who's hurt, how the teams match up and what's changed lately, so you can size up a matchup before it starts.

Where the data comes from

MLB: schedules, lineups and player stats from MLB's public Stats API. The Matchups is an independent site and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Major League Baseball.
NFL: schedules, play-by-play, player stats and injury reports from nflverse, licensed CC BY 4.0. Play action, motion, blitz and box counts are FTN Data via nflverse, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Football League. NFL numbers update overnight, not live.
Weather: forecasts by Open-Meteo, licensed CC BY 4.0.
Ballpark photos: Wikimedia Commons; each photo's author and license are shown with it.
Coaching staffs are maintained by hand from public reporting.
Team names and logos belong to their teams and leagues and are shown only to identify them.

The AI Scout

Scout answers questions using the stats on the page, written by Anthropic's Claude. It can be wrong, so check anything important against the numbers. Outlooks and insights on The Matchups are reads on the numbers, not predictions, and nothing here is betting advice.

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