sportsdata·ia.com

Personal project · Built in the open

The number you missed last night.

While you sleep, the games get played and millions of records pile up that nobody looks at. Every morning this sends a short read on what the numbers left behind — no filler, no hot takes, no three paragraphs of setup before you reach a fact.

Longest home run · Aug 21, 2026 Statcast
Pete Alonso Orioles · 5th inning · vs Rays
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Coverage

Eight leagues, one standard.

Everything comes from each league’s official API, not from sites that copy and paste. I open one sport at a time, and I don’t announce it until the data lands clean every single day without me touching anything.

Streaks

What is still running.

Three streaks that were alive when the last out was recorded yesterday. They refresh on their own every morning, straight from the league feed.

Longest hitting streak
— games
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Active batting streak across MLB.

Hottest team
— wins in a row
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Longest active winning streak.

Coldest team
— losses in a row
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Longest active losing streak.

Method

It builds itself overnight.

There is no newsroom behind this. There is a chain of automations that runs unsupervised, and a language model that is only allowed to write down what the data already says.

Step 01

The day ends

Each league’s official API is queried only once the last game is final, so no stat is left half-counted.

Step 02

The noise gets cut

Out of thousands of plays, only the few that moved the needle survive: the record, the turning point, the number that looks like nothing else this season.

Step 03

It gets written

A language model writes the recap under one hard rule: it cannot mention a single number that did not come back in the query.

Step 04

It ships at 9

It lands in your inbox before the first coffee, short enough to read on the way up in the elevator.

Sample

This is how it lands.

Hitter celebrating with the first base coach after a home run
The play that opens the daily email
MLB Aug 21, 2026 — how the day went sportsdata-ia.com · 9:00 AM

Pete Alonso sent one 443 feet. The longest ball of the day came in the 5th inning against the Rays: 111 mph off the bat at a 30 degree launch angle.

It was the farthest of the 28 home runs the league produced across the day.

Source: MLB Stats API · Generated automatically
Three blocks, not five screens The blast of the day, how the slate went, and the standouts. If a fact fits in one sentence, it gets one sentence. Nobody needs a preamble.
Every number checks out Everything stated comes from the league’s official API and traces back to the exact play. If the data isn’t there, it doesn’t get written.
No picks, no betting This looks backward, not forward. No picks, no odds, nobody trying to sell you a hunch.
Built in the open This is a personal project for learning about data and AI. What breaks gets written up the same as what works.

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