Cross-sport · team strength

Rinehart Ratings

Signals evaluate sport-specific player and game evidence. Ratings evaluates teams across sports — who is strongest now, who has earned it, and where the two meet. It is the one instrument that covers both Tuesday's college basketball and Sunday's NFL — separate models per sport, never a universal score, never a cross-sport rank.

STALE Open Rinehart Ratings

It owns

Team strength across sports: college football, college basketball, NFL, NBA — with an MLB historical/research vertical
Power — expected scoring margin against an average team on a neutral field
Résumé — Wins Above Schedule against the opponents and venues actually played
Composite — a standardized 75% Power / 25% Résumé blend
Current Boards vs Milestone Editions — a board earns the word "current"; frozen editions never masquerade as fresh
Postseason paths: a separately versioned CFB playoff forecast — research-only and frozen at its version; its proposed CFP Path successor was stopped by a preregistered rule, a decision published in Signal Lab

It deliberately does not own

Player impact — that belongs to the sport Signals
An MLB 2026 Current Board — unavailable by construction until a live source is lawfully approved
Fantasy values or market prices
Any number a server-authored gate has not signed off on

The freshness contract

"Current" is a role a board earns

Every board carries a server-authored currentness verdict: its role (current, milestone, archive, research, unavailable), its freshness state, the age of its newest meaningful input, and the named checks it passed or failed. SIGNAL preserves every board verdict, then derives one conservative umbrella badge: one stale covered board keeps the product from reading CURRENT even when another board is fresh. That aggregation is SIGNAL's own status rule, not a producer quote. When a board goes stale, the served board verdict still says stale. When MLB has no lawful live source, the current board reads unavailable rather than pretending.

The full boards live on the product. SIGNAL does not copy them — a board copied here could go stale while the original moved on, the failure mode this design prevents.

SIGNAL explainer

Power and Résumé meet in Composite

A method diagram, not a copied board. Each sport is modeled separately; nothing here ranks one sport against another.

POWER

Expected strength

Neutral-site scoring margin

RÉSUMÉ

Earned results

Wins above schedule

COMPOSITE

Versioned blend

Within one covered sport

BOARD ROLE / FRESHNESS VOCABULARY

CURRENT BOARD
MILESTONE EDITION
AGING
STALE
ARCHIVE

These are possible governed roles, not a claim about today's board. Current state remains on the status surface and on the producer's own board.

PREVIEW STATIC EXPLAINER · NON-LIVE · NO TEAM VALUES SRC RINEHART RATINGS METHOD

Current state

STALE The umbrella stamp is STALE because SIGNAL uses the worst covered board and never upgrades it.

Data through: not reported by producer

Boards generated: Aug 5–18, 2026 · Published: Jul 14–18, 2026 · 4 boards

Technical verification details

Release: v1.0.0
Artifact build: 7a0ba72
Deployed build identity: not reported by producer
Analytical certification: not reported by producer
Model status: CBB milestone/stale · CFB milestone/stale · NFL milestone/stale · NBA milestone/stale · MLB "coming_soon"
Data through (producer claim): not reported by producer
Boards generated (producer clock): Aug 5–18, 2026
Boards published (producer clock): Jul 14–18, 2026
Per-board clocks: CBB milestone/stale · generated Aug 5, 2026 · 6:48 PM ET · published Jul 18, 2026 · 11:25 AM ET
CFB milestone/stale · generated Aug 18, 2026 · 7:06 AM ET · published Jul 14, 2026 · 8:00 AM ET
NFL milestone/stale · generated Aug 5, 2026 · 7:01 PM ET · published Jul 15, 2026 · 5:18 PM ET
NBA milestone/stale · generated Aug 5, 2026 · 7:01 PM ET · published Jul 18, 2026 · 11:25 AM ET
Capture attempt (capture clock): Aug 27, 2026 · 5:08 PM ET · accepted

MANUAL VERIFICATION publicNote is a governed SIGNAL editorial supplement, separate from producer-owned status facts Fields: publicNote Supplement SHA256: 21fb59da0b66… Supplement source: https://ratings-api.rodericrinehart.com/api/v1/health + /sports + /offseason/{active sport} (server-authored verdicts, read-only recon 2026-08-12) Supplement verified: Aug 12, 2026 · 11:16 AM ET · Method: automated capture of the public artifact named in sourceRef; any declared manual fields are hashed separately

SRC ratings-api.rodericrinehart.com/api/v1 health · sports · offseason/{sport} (server-authored verdicts) MODE captured at build SHA256 485cb6538926… SIGNAL VERIFIED Aug 27, 2026 · 5:08 PM ET

Rinehart Ratings methodology Currentness doctrine Its research in Signal Lab