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How PlayerWON gets and uses its data

PlayerWON combines publicly available NHL data with sportsbook odds data to power schedules, statistics, matchup pages, model predictions, and betting tools.

Independent project Not affiliated with the NHL or any NHL team
NHL data

Schedules, standings, teams, players, and games

Used throughout PlayerWON for schedules, standings, boxscores, team pages, player pages, goalie pages, and model features.

Odds data

Sportsbook prices and market history

Used for price comparisons, implied probability, fair odds, edge calculations, expected value, and odds history.

Model outputs

Predictions created by PlayerWON

Predictions are generated from our own processing, feature engineering, and machine-learning models built on the source data below.

Process

How source data becomes PlayerWON content

PlayerWON does more than display API responses. The source data is collected, stored, cleaned, combined, and transformed before it appears on the site.

01

Collect

Retrieve publicly available NHL data and licensed market odds data from external APIs.

02

Store

Save raw and processed records in PlayerWON’s own database for fast access and historical tracking.

03

Transform

Clean, combine, validate, and structure the data into site-ready tables and model features.

04

Display

Present the processed results as schedules, standings, predictions, statistics, matchup pages, and betting tools.

Primary site data

NHL data sources

These endpoints support the NHL schedules, standings, teams, players, goalies, boxscores, and historical analysis shown across PlayerWON.

Seasons metadata

NHL API

Used to identify available seasons, season boundaries, and season-based logic.

https://api-web.nhle.com/v1/standings-season Open endpoint

Current standings

NHL API

Used for up-to-date team positions, division rankings, conference standings, and playoff-race context.

https://api-web.nhle.com/v1/standings/now Open endpoint

Historical standings

NHL API

Used to retrieve standings from specific dates for historical comparisons and season snapshots.

https://api-web.nhle.com/v1/standings/YYYY-MM-DD Open sample request

Game schedules and IDs

NHL API

Used to retrieve NHL schedules, matchup details, start times, participating teams, and game identifiers.

https://api-web.nhle.com/v1/schedule/YYYY-MM-DD Open sample request

Game boxscores

NHL API

Used for final scores, shot totals, skater statistics, goalie summaries, and game-detail pages.

https://api-web.nhle.com/v1/gamecenter/{gameId}/boxscore Open sample request

Player metadata

NHL API

Provides player details such as position, handedness, height, weight, birthplace, current team, and career context.

https://api-web.nhle.com/v1/player/{playerId}/landing Open sample request

Team metadata

NHL Stats API

Used to identify NHL teams and retrieve official IDs, names, and abbreviations.

https://api.nhle.com/stats/rest/en/team Open endpoint

Historical team stats

NHL Stats API

Used for season-level team statistics, historical comparisons, standings context, and model feature generation.

https://api.nhle.com/stats/rest/en/team/summary?cayenneExp=seasonId={seasonId} and gameTypeId=2 Open sample request
Market data

Odds API data sources

PlayerWON uses sportsbook data to compare market prices against model probabilities and support fair-odds, implied-probability, edge, and expected-value tools.

How odds data is used

PlayerWON does not operate a sportsbook or accept wagers. Odds data is used for analytics, market comparison, and educational tools.

Supported sports

The Odds API

Used to identify supported sports and their API keys before querying market data.

https://api.the-odds-api.com/v4/sports/?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY View documentation

Current odds

The Odds API

Used to retrieve upcoming event prices from sportsbooks for supported markets such as moneyline, spreads, and totals.

https://api.the-odds-api.com/v4/sports/{sport}/odds?regions=us&markets=h2h&oddsFormat=american&apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY View documentation

Historical odds snapshots

The Odds API

Used for backtesting, model evaluation, price-history analysis, and comparison against pre-game market conditions.

https://api.the-odds-api.com/v4/historical/sports/{sport}/odds?regions=us&markets=h2h&date=YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ&apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY View historical odds documentation

Betting markets

The Odds API

Used to determine which market types are available, including head-to-head, spreads, and totals.

Examples: h2h, spreads, totals View supported markets

How PlayerWON uses odds data

  • Compare sportsbook prices against model probabilities
  • Convert odds into implied probability
  • Calculate fair odds from model probabilities
  • Estimate edge and expected value
  • Support betting dashboards and market-comparison pages
Data disclaimer

Data displayed on PlayerWON is retrieved from third-party public or licensed API sources and then processed into PlayerWON’s own database, views, calculations, and model outputs.

Although data pipelines are updated regularly, source data may occasionally contain delays, inconsistencies, omissions, or live-update issues.

Questions or possible data issues can be reported to [email protected].