About & Methodology

Who Dat Stats is a fan-built project focused on transparent, rigorous New Orleans Saints analytics and a curated news experience.

Data sources

• Play-by-play metrics: Team and player efficiency charts are computed from the public nflfastR play-by-play mirror (regular season, 2025 through Week 10). Trimmed datasets fuel EPA, success rate, and personnel splits throughout the app without exposing the project's internal file structure.
• Model outputs: Season outlook, game probabilities, and drive/route breakdowns are pre-calculated and packaged with each release so production deployments always ship with a reproducible snapshot.
• Glossary: Definitions for on-page terms such as EPA, success rate, and aDOT are curated in a shared reference module and surfaced inline for quick access.

News aggregation

• RSS feeds from NOLA.com, WWL, ESPN, Saints Wire, Canal Street Chronicles, and The Athletic are fetched server-side.
• Headlines, summaries, timestamps, and optional tags are cached in Supabase/Postgres.
• Only metadata is stored—full articles remain on the publishers' sites. We respect robots.txt guidance and remove sources on request.

Operations

Production builds rely on secured environment variables for Supabase connectivity and the news ingestion automation uses authenticated requests. Specific keys, paths, and trigger endpoints stay private to protect the infrastructure.

Questions, corrections, or data source requests? Reach out and we'll review quickly—accuracy is the priority.