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Privacy policy

Matchday does not require an account, payment information, or a real name to use its current local-first version. We do not run advertising trackers or sell personal information.

Information stored on your device

The app uses your browser’s local and session storage to remember language, selected sport, appearance settings, favourite team, watchlist, dismissed welcome screen, and your personal “Beat the Model” picks and results. A randomly generated device identifier, an assigned display handle, and — if you sign in — a session token are also stored locally for the community feature. Most of this stays in your browser; the exceptions are the picks you lock and the identifiers that own them, which are sent to the leaderboard as described below.

Information sent to other services

The app loads sports data prepared by Matchday and may load Google Fonts. When you open a news story or an external data-provider link, that third party receives information under its own privacy policy. Hosting providers may also process ordinary technical logs, such as IP address, browser type, and request time, to operate and secure a hosted site.

Online leaderboard

The leaderboard is live. When you lock a pick, Matchday sends the pick itself, the competition and match it belongs to, that fixture’s kickoff time, and the identifier that owns it — either the random device identifier your browser generated or, if you have signed in, your account’s identifier. Your display handle is sent with it. Each pick is graded later by the server from published fixture data; your browser never reports its own totals, which is why the standings cannot be edited from the app.

That information is held in a PostgreSQL database operated for Matchday through Vercel and hosted in the United States. If you are in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, this means your information is transferred outside your country to a provider Matchday relies on to run the service.

Accounts and sign-in

Signing in is optional and the app works fully as a guest. If you do sign in, Matchday uses Google or GitHub and stores only the opaque account identifier that provider returns — a string of digits that identifies you to that provider alone. Matchday does not request, receive, or store your email address, your name, or your profile picture. It asks Google for the openid permission and nothing further, and asks GitHub for no permissions at all.

An account holds that identifier, an assigned display handle, and the dates it was created and last used. Signing in also creates a session token, which is stored in your browser and expires after 180 days. The first time you sign in, picks you had already made as a guest in that browser are moved onto the account, once.

Display handles are assigned from a fixed list of well-known athletes and cannot be typed in. Matchday therefore hosts no user-written text, images, or profiles of any kind.

How long information is kept

Accounts that go unused for 18 months are deleted automatically, together with their picks. Picks made as a guest, which have no account attached, are deleted on the same 18-month schedule. This happens on the server without any action from you.

Your choices

You can clear locally stored Matchday information at any time through your browser’s site-data controls, or with the “Clear data” control on this page.

If you have an account, the Community tab has a Delete account button. It permanently removes the account, the link to your Google or GitHub identity, every session, and every pick recorded against it. It takes effect immediately and cannot be undone; signing out instead leaves everything in place. You may also contact me on X (@iamtimurety) to ask for a copy of what is held about you, to have it corrected, or to have it deleted.

This policy will be updated before any payments, marketing analytics, advertising, or free-text community profiles are introduced.

Terms of use

Matchday publishes sports information for anyone to use however works for them — settling a debate, following a team, checking the model's own track record, comparing it with the market, or applying the numbers to personal decisions. By using it you agree to do so lawfully. Matchday is a personal analysis site with no commercial stake in what you do with the information: nothing here is shaped by an interest in a particular outcome.

Model and market limits

Probabilities are estimates, not guarantees. Sports results, lineups, schedules, standings, odds, and news can be delayed, incomplete, corrected, unavailable, or wrong. Independently check important information and apply your own judgment before relying on a model read, edge, ranking, or market display.

No affiliation or endorsement

Matchday is independent. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by leagues, teams, athletes, bookmakers, news publishers, or data providers unless a written statement on this page says otherwise, and it does not accept payment from any of them to shape what's shown. Names, marks, and logos belong to their respective owners. Matchday does not claim ownership of third-party content.

Who may create an account

Reading Matchday requires no account. Creating one requires that you be at least 16 years old, or at least 13 with the consent of a parent or guardian where local law allows it. Matchday does not knowingly keep an account for a child under 13; if you believe one exists, contact me on X (@iamtimurety) and it will be deleted. No account confers any prize, stake, or entry into any contest.

Availability and changes

The product is in development and may change, pause, or be withdrawn. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Matchday is provided “as is” and without warranties of accuracy, availability, fitness for a particular purpose, or uninterrupted operation. The publisher may revise this page as the product changes.

Responsible use

Do not misuse the service, interfere with it, attempt to access non-public systems, or use it where prohibited.

Data sources

Matchday covers college football and men's college basketball, and uses three sources:

• CollegeFootballData (CFBD) — NCAAF schedules, results, teams and conferences. SP+ is stored from CFBD and used for conference membership only; it is CFBD's rating, never part of a ranking shown here.
• CollegeBasketballData (CBBD) — NCAAM schedules, results and team data.
• The Odds API — market prices, shown as the bookmakers' own number and labelled as such.

Ratings, rankings and model probabilities are my own, computed by my engine and read into this site rather than recalculated by it. No external poll contributes to them. Match-level forecasts are live reads that keep moving until kickoff; they carry no pregame lock receipt, are not official picks, and are not graded.

Brackets and poll editions are projections until real selection and championship results exist, and are labelled that way wherever they appear. A ranking published for a season that has not started describes the previous completed season, and says so in its own note.

Support, corrections & contact

Matchday is run by one person. If a number looks wrong, a team is mislabelled, or a page is broken, say so and it gets looked at — corrections are welcome and the record is meant to be checkable.

Reach me on X: @iamtimurety.

Ratings and rankings come from the Bet Better engine, so a disputed rating is a question about that model rather than about this site's display of it — it is still worth raising here.