Where the numbers come from

The site’s own commitments

Independent and non-commercial: no advertising, no sponsorship, no paywall. The names of championships, teams, events and venues are the trademarks of their owners and appear here only to identify them; nothing on this site is affiliated with or endorsed by any of them. A correction, a missing result, a source, a sport you would like to see: contribute.

The page code is released under the MIT licence (see the repository). Fonts are served from Google Fonts under the SIL Open Font License. No logos are used anywhere; team, national and manufacturer colours are editorial interpretations of racing and playing identities.

Formula 1

F1DBCC BY 4.0
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Used for: circuit outlines (the white survey SVGs), track specifications, supplementary fastest laps.

Jolpica F1 (Ergast-compatible API)CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Data under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0); the API is free for non-commercial use.
Used for: race results, sprint results, championship standings.

Wikipedia
Text and tables under CC BY-SA 4.0; the facts are free.
Used for: reference links from each race and circuit.

Formula1.com
Reference only; nothing is reproduced.
Used for: links for historical cross-checks and era notes.

The data file /data/f1.json is therefore offered under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: attribute F1DB and Jolpica, use it non-commercially, and share any derivative under the same licence.

Dakar Rally

WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (Wikipedia contributors): attribution and share-alike, both given.
Used for: every edition of the Dakar Rally article at a recorded revision — the route as the article names it, the era, and the first three of every class with the crew and the make; and, from the rally-year articles in the English and Spanish editions (1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2010, 2015, 2022–2026), the final classification beyond the podium as far as each article prints it and the entry lists of 2022, 2023 and 2025. Nothing is taken from the organiser’s own site, results service or artwork, and no team or tracking site was used: every candidate source without a stated licence was left out.

Natural EarthPublic domain
Public domain.
Used for: the 1:110m land silhouette behind every route map; routes are drawn schematically between their named towns, not from any official course.

The data file /data/dakar.json is CC BY-SA 4.0: attribute Wikipedia contributors and share alike; the land geometry inside it is public domain. No logos, marks or official artwork are included; the rally’s name appears only to identify the event.

Rugby union

Nuck’s Rugby Archive
An independent hobby archive that states no licence. Match results are facts; the compilation is the author’s work and is used with credit while permission is sought.
Used for: the ten nations’ international match archive.

Springbok Rugby History (bokhist.com)
A private South African archive that states no licence; used with credit while permission is sought.
Used for: the Springbok match record, player histories and World Cup squads.

Pick & Go
Public results tables, used only as a cross-check.
Used for: verification of recent results.

WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (Wikipedia contributors): attribution and share-alike, both given.
Used for: national-team coaching lists; the national player registers of every side in the archive (the “List of … national rugby union players” pages); team sheets and named scorers from the match, tour and championship articles in the English, French and German editions. Each source page’s revision and retrieval date are recorded in the harvest.

WikidataCC0 1.0
CC0 1.0.
Used for: dates of birth and death of the players it links by an exact Wikipedia sitelink; no fuzzy name matching.

National unions’ match records
Official match centres and annual reports of the unions (Unión Argentina de Rugby, Japan Rugby Football Union, Irish Rugby, Federazione Italiana Rugby, SA Rugby, Scottish Rugby, Six Nations) and World Rugby, none of which states a reuse licence.
Used for: narrow factual cross-checks only — a date, a score, a starting fifteen — where the Wikipedia record was incomplete or in doubt; nothing is reproduced beyond the fact checked. World Rugby’s hall-of-fame pages settled two identity questions.

RugbyScopeCC BY 4.0
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (Labatut and O’Sullivan, v1.2.0).
Used for: cross-checking the identities of early Irish, Scottish and English players printed by initials.

The data file /data/rugby.json is mixed: the match results are facts anyone may use, but the compilations behind them belong to Nuck’s Rugby Archive and Springbok Rugby History and carry no licence for reuse; the national registers, team sheets and scorers are adaptations of Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0; the dates from Wikidata are CC0. It is not a public-domain file.

MotoGP, World Superbike and the Isle of Man TT

WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (Wikipedia contributors): attribution and share-alike, both given.
Used for: every result, calendar and published standing of the premier-class world championship (1949 on) and the Superbike World Championship (1988 on), transcribed from the English season articles; every Isle of Man TT winner and classification, transcribed from the German list of TT winners and the English race and year articles. Each race links to the article it came from and the data files record every page’s revision, retrieval date and hash. Nothing from the series’ own results services or artwork is carried.

WikidataCC0 1.0
CC0 1.0.
Used for: circuit coordinates and countries.

OpenStreetMapODbL 1.0
© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License 1.0.
Used for: circuit outlines (the mapped raceway around each venue) and the Snaefell Mountain Course with its named places (relation 188240).

F1DBCC BY 4.0
CC BY 4.0.
Used for: circuit surveys at venues Formula 1 has raced, used where OpenStreetMap has no raceway mapped.

The data files /data/motogp.json, /data/sbk.json and /data/tt.json are CC BY-SA 4.0: attribute Wikipedia contributors and share alike; the geometry inside them is ODbL. No logos, marks or official artwork are included.

Summer Olympics

WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (Wikipedia contributors): attribution and share-alike, both given.
Used for: the list of medal winners of every Summer Games at a recorded revision — every medal event with its sport and category, and the gold, silver and bronze awards with the delegation and the named athletes; the medal table of each Games, read only to reconcile the totals; the Games’ own articles for host, dates and participation. Nothing is taken from the International Olympic Committee’s own sites, results services or artwork.

Natural EarthPublic domain
Public domain.
Used for: the 1:110m land silhouette behind every map; host cities are points at approximate coordinates, not venues.

The data file /data/olympics.json is CC BY-SA 4.0: attribute Wikipedia contributors and share alike; the land geometry inside it is public domain. No rings, emblems, mascots, pictograms or official artwork are included; the names of the Games appear only to identify them, and nothing on the site is affiliated with the International Olympic Committee or any organising committee.

Winter Olympics

WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (Wikipedia contributors): attribution and share-alike, both given.
Used for: the list of medal winners of every Winter Games at a recorded revision — every medal event with its sport and category, and the gold, silver and bronze awards with the delegation and the named athletes; the medal table of each Games, read only to reconcile the totals; the Games’ own articles for host, dates and participation. Nothing is taken from the International Olympic Committee’s own sites, results services or artwork.

Natural EarthPublic domain
Public domain.
Used for: the 1:110m land silhouette behind every map; host cities are points at approximate coordinates, not venues.

The data file /data/winter.json is CC BY-SA 4.0: attribute Wikipedia contributors and share alike; the land geometry inside it is public domain. No rings, emblems, mascots, pictograms or official artwork are included; the names of the Games appear only to identify them, and nothing on the site is affiliated with the International Olympic Committee or any organising committee.

World Cup

The Fjelstul World Cup DatabaseCC BY-SA 4.0
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 — © 2023 Joshua C. Fjelstul, Ph.D.: attribution and share-alike, both given, with the copyright notice the licence asks for.
Used for: every match of the men’s World Cup 1930–2022 and the women’s 1991–2019 with its goals, line-ups (from 1970), squads, bookings, substitutions, shoot-out kicks, referees, managers, awards, standings and grounds. The database’s structure is the author’s; the results themselves are facts.

OpenFootball worldcup.jsonCC0 1.0
CC0 1.0 (OpenFootball contributors): no rights reserved.
Used for: the 2026 World Cup — every match with its score after extra time, penalties and goalscorers; no line-ups or squads yet.

WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (Wikipedia contributors): attribution and share-alike, both given.
Used for: the 2023 Women’s World Cup — results, stages and grounds from the group and knockout pages, consolidated by the editor’s ledger; no scorers yet.

Natural Earth
Public domain.
Used for: the 1:110m land silhouette behind the map of finals; each final is a point at approximate coordinates. Grounds are listed, never drawn.

The data file /data/worldcup.json is CC BY-SA 4.0: attribute Joshua C. Fjelstul, Ph.D. (© 2023), OpenFootball contributors and Wikipedia contributors, and share alike; the land geometry inside it is public domain. No official emblems, trophies, mascots, typography or marks appear anywhere; the words World Cup identify the competition and nothing on the site is affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to FIFA or any federation. The 2026 grounds are named by the editor from the host cities the source lists.

UFC

WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (Wikipedia contributors): attribution and share-alike, both given.
Used for: every past event in the list of UFC events and each event’s own article — the results table (weight class, fighters, result, method, round, time, notes), the infobox (date, venue, city, attendance) and the bonus awards. Nothing is taken from the promotion’s own site or its statistics partner.

WikidataCC0 1.0
CC0 1.0.
Used for: fighter nationality, date of birth and height, where the fighter has an article.

The data file /data/ufc.json is CC BY-SA 4.0: attribute Wikipedia contributors and share alike. No logos, marks or official artwork are included; the promotion’s names appear only to identify the events.

Cricket

CricsheetODC-By 1.0
Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By 1.0): attribution required, which this page and the atlas give.
Used for: ball-by-ball scorecards of every international it covers (men’s Tests and ODIs from 2001–02, T20Is from 2005, the women’s game from its first recorded matches); the innings worms, and every batting, bowling and line-up figure of those matches, are computed from them.

Historical results (Kaggle: “Cricket match dataset, Test nations 1877–2025”, Qammar Shahzad)
Match results are facts; the compilation is credited here and its own licence is stated on its Kaggle page.
Used for: dates, sides, results and margins of internationals before the Cricsheet era.

International Cricket Council
Published results of ICC events, used as facts.
Used for: World Cup, T20 World Cup, Champions Trophy and World Test Championship winners, runners-up and finals.

Historical scorecards (Hugging Face: “Test cricket dataset 1877–2014”, “ODI cricket dataset 1971–2014”, “T20I cricket dataset 2005–2014”, Bhuvanesh Prasad)no licence stated
No licence is stated on the datasets; the figures in a scorecard are facts. Credited here and on every scorecard they supply; no licence is granted for those parts.
Used for: batting, bowling, dismissals, extras and line-ups of 3,934 internationals before Cricsheet’s coverage, each read at a recorded dataset revision and checked against its result and innings totals.

Cricbuzz scorecardsno licence stated
No reuse licence is established; the figures are facts. Credited on each of the 54 scorecards it supplies, with a link to the page it was read from.
Used for: the scorecards of 54 internationals the datasets above lack or hold incompletely.

Wikipedia national player listsCC BY-SA 4.0
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (Wikipedia contributors): attribution and share-alike, both given.
Used for: the published career of every Test and ODI player (74 lists, each at a recorded revision) and the full names of players the scorecards know by initials.

WikidataCC0 1.0
CC0 1.0.
Used for: full names confirmed by a stable Cricinfo identifier.

CricketWeb
Used only to cross-check; nothing is taken.
Used for: an independent check of the first fifty Test scorecards.

The data files /data/cricket.json and /data/cricket_details/: the Cricsheet-derived parts are ODC-By 1.0 (attribute Cricsheet); the published career register and the names drawn from Wikipedia are CC BY-SA 4.0 (attribute Wikipedia contributors, share alike); the historical results and the historical scorecards are facts compiled from the sources above, credited, with no licence granted for them. No logos or marks are included.

Tennis

Jeff Sackmann / Tennis AbstractCC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0: attribution, no commercial use, share alike. This site is non-commercial and shares its data files under the same terms.
Used for: every tour-level match of the ATP and WTA from 1968 — results, seedings, rankings, durations and serve statistics — from the tennis_atp and tennis_wta repositories.

The Wimbledon Compendium
The club’s published roll of honour, used as facts.
Used for: champions and finalists at Wimbledon before 1968.

The data files /data/tennis.json and /data/tennis_matches/ are CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: attribute Jeff Sackmann / Tennis Abstract, no commercial use, share alike. No logos or marks are included; tournament names appear only to identify the events.

In preparation

FiveThirtyEightCC BY 4.0
CC BY 4.0.
Used for: historical NBA/BAA game results and Elo (basketball).

Basketball box scores are facts recorded from public sources; the atlas will name its sources and their terms here when it is published.

How the archives stay current

Each atlas is extended by a small reader that runs on a schedule in the site’s public repository. It reads only the source already credited above for that atlas — Jolpica for Formula 1; the English Wikipedia articles through the MediaWiki API for MotoGP, World Superbike, UFC, the Isle of Man TT and the Dakar Rally; Cricsheet for cricket; Jeff Sackmann’s repositories for tennis; and, once permission is given, the data file Nuck’s Rugby Archive publishes for its own pages. Each run makes a handful of requests, pauses between them and names this site in its user agent. Before it writes anything, a reader must reproduce what the archive already holds from that source; results before the current season are never rewritten. Anything a reader adds carries the same licence as the rest of that data file.

The data files

Each atlas serves its archive as one JSON file, under the licence stated above: cricket.json · dakar.json · f1.json · motogp.json · rugby.json · olympics.json · tennis.json · tt.json · ufc.json · winter.json · worldcup.json · sbk.json.

Trademarks

Formula 1, F1, Grand Prix, MotoGP, WorldSBK, Isle of Man TT, TT, UFC, Dakar, Dakar Rally, Olympic, Olympics, Olympic Games, World Cup, FIFA, Rugby World Cup, Springboks, All Blacks, ICC, Cricket World Cup, ATP, WTA, Wimbledon, Roland-Garros and every other championship, team, event, venue and manufacturer name on this site are the trademarks of their respective owners. They appear here only to identify what the numbers describe. This site is an independent, fan-made record; it is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any rights holder, federation, union, league or team.