StatVault

Changelog

Release notes for StatVault — the sports data encyclopedia.

v1.4

new
  • –Vault Grid: a daily nine-cell grid across all five sports. Name a player who fits each team-and-team or team-and-honor cell; rarer answers score higher
  • –Guess the Player has NBA, MLB and NHL editions
  • –Hall of Fame model for the NBA, MLB and NHL: Statistical Snubs and Hall of Very Good boards, with the method and its accuracy on the page
  • –Record Watch shows what is in reach this season, at each player's own career pace
  • –Follow a player and get one Monday email with how close they are to the next all-time rung. Manage follows from your dashboard, unfollow in one click
  • –Each sport's name in the menu now opens its encyclopedia hub; Leaders, Honors, Teams, Rivalries, Compare and Streaks open their five-sport index
  • –Every sport's player page can be shared and rated, and seasons in progress are marked as such
  • –Charts: the career-record progression on every NFL stat board
  • –A season almanac for every sport, a five-sport search, and help and accessibility pages

v1.3

improved
  • –Terms and privacy now spell out how credits, passes and refunds will work once checkout opens, and name every data processor
  • –Corrected pre-1999 interception and games-played figures that a Wikipedia table parse had shifted (the old #1 single-season interception mark was a per-return average)
  • –Your account page shows your credits, tools and data rights in one place
  • –One developer console for your key, usage and limits; notification settings save again
  • –Retired the betting tools and sportsbook feed: StatVault is a sports encyclopedia

v1.2

new
  • –Pricing v2 — three lanes: free Explore, pay-per-truth Credits (packs now giftable), and one-time Event Passes (Draft Week, Playoff Run, Trade Deadline) — still no subscription
  • –Knox-as-a-Judge API — POST structured stat claims, get corpus-grounded supported/refuted/unverifiable verdicts with evidence
  • –Ask Knox now degrades gracefully — when the live AI layer rests you get an honest fallback card, never a raw error code
  • –Dashboard watchlist restored (a silent sign-in regression made it render empty)
  • –Every contact address, price, and corpus count across the site now derives from one source of truth

v1.1

new
  • –StatVault Credits — one currency across the site and API; free monthly grant, pay-as-you-go packs, one-time Vault Pass membership
  • –Grounded API + MCP server — receipt-backed, refusal-aware answers for apps and AI agents
  • –Career Twins, Career Dominance, era-adjusted boards extended across NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL
  • –Cross-sport franchise legacy: Mt. Rushmores, monument timelines, one-club men, succession chains

v1.0

improved
  • –Five-sport encyclopedia milestone — NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and MLS with cross-sport identity, honors spine, and namesake disambiguation
  • –Vantage premium umbrella replaces the legacy Forge branding across every public surface
  • –Search understands intent — namesake-aware ⌘K, entity queries, typo fallback
  • –Weekly ritual: digest email, Beat the Vault ladder and rivalry threads, receipts and crowd votes

v0.7

new
  • –ForgeCompare (now Compare) shareable deep links — copy link button on all comparison pages
  • –ForgeCompare share images for rich social previews
  • –Rankings CSV/JSON export — download full rankings for any sport
  • –Loading placeholders for the dashboard, rankings, player profiles, Beat the Vault, and the trade calculator
  • –Removing a player from your watchlist works reliably
  • –Pages show a clear error instead of silently falling back when the data service is unreachable

v0.6

new
  • –A short welcome tour for new accounts
  • –Player profiles explain their score — a breakdown of what goes into it, with a bar chart
  • –Friendly error and not-found pages instead of blank screens
  • –Rankings tables readable on phones
  • –Player profile trend lines and season history fit small screens
  • –The compare page stacks its inputs on mobile

v0.5

improved
  • –Player and season pages refresh only when their content changes
  • –Per-sport data quality scoring
  • –Groundwork for written game recaps
  • –Digest emails and support requests are tracked end to end
  • –Live cost and data-freshness checks
  • –Fair-use limits on the API and on account sign-ups

v0.4

infra
  • –Accounts and secure sign-in
  • –Weekly rating updates run automatically
  • –Faster loading for recent-season data
  • –Stricter data checks on prediction scores
  • –Groundwork for a live-score stream

v0.3

new
  • –SignalRating (now Knox Current) algorithm — 0–100 composite performance index across NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL
  • –Player profile pages with SignalRating badge, sparkline, and season history
  • –SignalRating rankings pages per sport with weekly updates
  • –Team pages with roster SignalRating overview
  • –Beat the Vault — weekly prediction game with leaderboard
  • –Trade Calculator — SignalRating-based trade value tool

v0.2

new
  • –User accounts: register, sign in, stay signed in
  • –Watchlist — follow players from your dashboard
  • –Dashboard with watchlist, top movers, and Knox tool shortcuts
  • –Player, season and game pages built for search

v0.1

infra
  • –First build of the StatVault site, API and database
  • –Monitoring and alerting from day one
  • –Automated tests on every change