There is a version of sports coverage that most readers know well. The match ends, the scoreline goes up, two or three statistics get quoted in the first paragraph, and a verdict gets delivered before the data has been properly read. It is fast, it is everywhere, and it consistently fails the sports fan who actually wants to understand what happened and why.
Sports Player Stats was built in Los Angeles in April 2026 as a direct response to that gap.
The idea behind this publication came from years of watching sports journalism treat statistics as decoration rather than substance. Numbers dropped into match reports to add texture, rarely interrogated, rarely placed inside a framework that gave them any real meaning. Founding editor-in-chief Elizabeth J. Luna spent close to two decades in sports media on both sides of the Atlantic before deciding the gap was worth filling properly. She launched Sports Player Stats to build the kind of publication she had always wanted to read.
What We Cover
The NFL, NBA, MLB, WNBA, FIFA, cricket, and hockey. Every major league. Every major competition. We cover all of it with the same editorial standard regardless of the sport, the month of the season, or whether the game trended on social media. A WNBA playoff run gets the same depth of analysis as an NBA Finals preview. A Test cricket innings gets the same attention as a Super Bowl matchup. That is not a principle we state and then quietly abandon when a bigger story comes along. It is the standard every piece on this site is held to before it is published.
How We Work
Every article on Sports Player Stats starts with sourcing. Player statistics are pulled from verified, authenticated data sources and checked before they reach the page. Match analysis is built from primary data, not from aggregated summaries lifted from wire reports. When we write that a quarterback’s completion rate under pressure dropped significantly in the second half, we have the numbers in front of us that show it, and we know what they mean.
Our editorial team covers sport the way a beat reporter covers a city hall. It requires understanding the history, the context, the personnel, and the stakes of whatever is in front of you on a given day. Data without that context is noise. Our job is to make sure every piece of statistical reporting we publish adds something a reader could not have gotten from a scoreline alone.
We do not publish filler. We do not recycle match previews from other outlets and reframe them as original analysis. When a player produces a performance that the box score undersells or overstates, that is where we work. That is the story worth telling.
Our Editorial Standards
Accuracy is correctable. We take it seriously enough to issue corrections when they are warranted, and our contact page exists in part for that reason. If a reader spots a statistical error or believes a piece of analysis needs revisiting, we want to know. Sports journalism that cannot be held accountable is not journalism worth reading.
Sources are cited. Methodology is explained. Player and match data is traceable. These are not policies we have written down for the sake of a policy document. They are what makes the coverage on this site worth trusting.
Where We Are
Sports Player Stats is based in Los Angeles, which puts us in the middle of one of the most concentrated sports markets in the world. It also puts us three time zones from the eastern seaboard and several from most of the world’s cricket, football, and hockey competitions. We cover all of it regardless. Sport does not stop at the Pacific, and neither do we.
For editorial enquiries, story tips, data corrections, or anything else, head to our Contact page. We read everything that comes in.
Sports Player Stats is an independent sports journalism publication based in Los Angeles. We have no affiliation with any professional league, club, governing body, or official data provider.