Our methodology

Schedules

We source game and event schedules — teams, dates, and start times — from a third-party sports-data provider (API-SPORTS). We render start times in US Eastern time and select each day's slate on the Eastern calendar day, so evening games stay on the correct night.

Broadcast-rights rules

Schedule providers tell us who is playing and when — not where to watch. US broadcast rights are a separate thing: they are set by multi-year deals between leagues and networks. We keep those as a small, hand-maintained ruleset that we curate from current rights announcements and provider pricing pages. Every rule records its source, the date we last verified it, and a review date.

Confidence & verification dates

We label how sure we are, and we never dress up a guess as a fact:

• Confirmed — backed by a current rights announcement or an event-level listing.
• Expected — inferred from the current rights package, but not confirmed for that exact event.
• Unknown— we don't have reliable information. This is a valid answer, and we'll say so rather than invent one.

Where we show a “last verified” date, it reflects when we last checked that rule against a source — not a live, real-time check.

Corrections

Rights and prices change, and we make mistakes. If something looks wrong, tell us via the contact page and we'll review it and update the rule and its verification date.

Known limitations

• Prices, rights, and free-trial offers change frequently and by region.
• We focus on US national availability. We do not currently model every local regional sports network or every blackout rule, so in-market availability for your specific location may differ.
• Live status and scores come from our schedule provider and can lag or contain errors.