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What Matchday Terminal stores
There are no accounts. You never give a name, email address or payment details. The site runs no advertising or analytics trackers and never sells personal information.
On your device
Your browser remembers your settings: language, selected sport, favourite team, watchlist, and whether you have seen the welcome screen. It also keeps your community picks, a random device ID and your assigned display handle.
Pick 'Em
When you lock a pick, the site sends the pick, the game it belongs to, that game's kickoff time, your random device ID and your display handle. Picks are graded on the server from published results, so standings cannot be edited from the browser.
Other players see the share of picks on each side of a game and a feed of recent picks by display handle. Handles are assigned from a fixed list and cannot be typed in, so the site hosts no user-written text, images or profiles.
This information is stored in a PostgreSQL database run through Vercel in the United States. If you are in the UK or the EEA, it is transferred outside your country.
How long it is kept
Picks from a device that has not been used for 18 months are deleted automatically.
Your choices
- Clear what is stored on your device from your browser's site-data settings.
- Ask for your picks to be removed, or for a copy of them, by messaging @timursports on X. Include your display handle.
This policy will be updated before any accounts, analytics or user-written profiles are added.
The site also loads the Inter typeface from Google Fonts, and its host keeps ordinary request logs (such as IP address and time) to run and secure the site. Links to data providers are governed by those sites' own policies.
Terms of use
Using the numbers
Matchday Terminal publishes college football and men's college basketball analysis for anyone to use: following a team, settling a debate, checking the model's record, or comparing it with the market. By using the site you agree to do so lawfully.
Estimates, not guarantees
Every probability, rating and pick is an estimate. Scores, schedules, rankings and odds can be late, incomplete, corrected or wrong. Nothing here is betting, financial or professional advice, and you should check anything important yourself.
Picks keep moving until they lock an hour before kickoff. Locked picks are graded once the game is final and never rewritten; the Scorecard shows that record in full.
Independent
Matchday Terminal is a non-commercial hobby project. It makes no money and has no plans to: there are no ads, subscriptions, affiliate links, paid placements or sponsorships. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by the NCAA, any conference, school, athlete, sportsbook or data provider, and it takes no payment to shape what it shows. Team names and logos belong to their owners and appear only to identify teams.
Availability
The site is under active development and may change, pause or stop. It is provided “as is”, without warranties of accuracy or availability, to the fullest extent the law allows. Please do not misuse it, interfere with it or try to reach systems that are not public.
Data sources
Where the data comes from
| Source | What it supplies | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| CollegeFootballData | College football schedules, results, teams, conferences and venues | Via its API under its terms |
| CollegeBasketballData | Men's college basketball schedules, results and teams | Via its API under its terms |
| The Odds API | Bookmaker prices, shown as the market's number | Informational only; never redistributed as a feed |
| SportsGameOdds | Backup bookmaker prices when the main feed has none | Shown only inside the site's own analysis |
| ESPN public data | Final scores and the AP Top 25 (rank and team only) | Public facts only; no ESPN statistics, text or images |
| Open-Meteo | Game-day temperature and wind | Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) |
| School logos | Team marks next to names | Owned by each school; shown only to identify teams |
Picks, win probabilities and power ratings come from Matchday's own model, which reads these sources. No outside poll or rating feeds into them. The AP Top 25 is shown beside them, labelled as the Associated Press poll.
Brackets are projections until the real field is set, and are labelled that way. A rating published before a season starts describes the previous completed season and says so.
What the site can't show yet, such as live scores and box scores, and why, is on the Roadmap & limits page.
Contact
Corrections and questions
Matchday Terminal is run by one person. If a number looks wrong, a team is mislabelled or a page breaks, send a message on X: corrections are welcome, and the record is meant to be checkable.
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