Editorial Standards

We aim to verify names, teams, dates, statistics, quotations and transaction details before publication. Developing stories may change; when a fact is not confirmed, the language must make that uncertainty clear.

Headlines may be sharp, data-driven or provocative, but they must be supported by the article. We do not manufacture conflict, state speculation as fact or hide the central qualification solely to increase clicks.

StatTake analysis may reach a strong conclusion, but the evidence, assumptions and uncertainty should remain visible. Models and rankings are tools—not facts. Projections will be identified as projections and updated when new information materially changes them.