About
One builder, a family of instruments
What SIGNAL is
SIGNAL is not another place to do sports analytics. It is the front desk, research archive, and trust layer for the places that do. No rating, probability, or ranking is computed here. One repository owns one truth, and this repository owns the map.
The family
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Producers — each owns one kind of truth
- Court Signal publishes → evidence.json · production-truth.json
- Gridiron Signal publishes → freshness.json · registry.json · experiments.json
- Hardball Signal publishes → status.json · releases API
- Rinehart Ratings publishes → server-authored board verdicts (public API)
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Versioned read-only artifacts
Hashed, timestamped, release-stamped files and endpoints. The only lane truth may travel — downward, never back up.
A governed hybrid may pair producer bytes with a separately hashed manual supplement for a named missing public field. That is not merged authority: producer fields remain producer truth, while the supplement keeps its own reason, timestamp, source reference, and hash.
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Consumers — read the artifacts, write nothing back
- SIGNAL reads all four producers' artifacts at build, records any manual supplement separately — publishes this site's map, status, methods, and research ledger
- Roster Command private — reads approved real-football evidence for fantasy decisions
- Hedgebook private — reads governed producer artifacts; cannot write back into sports truth
Consumers never write back — one repository owns one truth.
Who makes this
Roderic Rinehart — a teacher who builds analytics systems. The products are independent work: no league affiliations, no sportsbook partnerships, no advertising. Where a sport's data cannot be used lawfully, the product says blocked and waits; several pages in Research exist precisely because the honest answer was no.
SIGNAL and the family products are not affiliated with or endorsed by the NBA, NFL, or MLB. Team and league names appear only as factual references.