Blog
Notes on how the venue ownership and sponsorship dataset is built, what it shows, and where it is still wrong.
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What the monthly change log is for
Every altered value gets a permanent record. Here is why that matters more than the data being right on any given day.
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Reading the naming-rights data without getting it wrong
Naming-rights figures look precise and usually are not. What the deal value, term and start-date fields in this dataset actually mean.
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Owner, operator, tenant: three different organizations
Most venue lists collapse ownership into one column. That single choice is where the majority of published stadium ownership data goes wrong.