# Spot Sports

Spot Sports is the easiest way to follow sports — scores, schedules, videos,
podcasts, channels, and personalized streaming guides for every team in NFL,
NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, EPL, college, motorsports, and Olympic sports. Free to
use, no account required for public content.

The brand promise is "everything worth following in sports." Spot Sports
aggregates official sources (ESPN, TheScore, league APIs, podcast RSS feeds)
and adds proprietary streaming-cost analysis built on DMA-based RSN
resolution, public MLB/NBA/NHL blackout APIs, and a continuously refreshed
catalog of MVPDs, vMVPDs, RSN DTC apps, and league subscription products.

## What you can do on Spot Sports
- Look up any game, team, league, or athlete with current scores, schedules,
  rosters, and standings.
- See which channel or streaming service is carrying a specific game,
  filtered by your zip code (DMA-based, blackout-aware).
- Calculate the real monthly and annual cost to watch the teams you follow,
  including local RSN, national windows, and DTC add-ons.
- Compare streaming cost across teams, cities, leagues, and bundle
  combinations.
- Browse and listen to top sports podcasts and creator videos by sport,
  league, or team.

## Key pages
- Home: https://www.spotsports.com
- Watch-cost calculator: https://www.spotsports.com/watch-cost
- Streaming guides hub: https://www.spotsports.com/watch
- League streaming guides: /watch/{nfl,nba,mlb,nhl,mls}
- Team streaming guides: /watch/{team-slug} (e.g. /watch/boston-red-sox)
- City streaming guides: /watch/{city-slug} (e.g. /watch/boston, /watch/atlanta)
- Streaming deals: /watch/deals
- Most-expensive teams to watch: /watch/most-expensive
- Recent streaming changes: /watch/changes
- Sport hubs: /sports/{slug} (e.g. /sports/cricket, /sports/golf)
- League hubs: /{league-slug} (e.g. /nfl, /mlb, /premier-league)
- Team pages: /{league-slug}/teams/{team-slug}
- Athlete pages: /athletes/{slug}
- Podcasts: /podcasts, /podcasts/{id}
- Episodes: /episodes/{id}
- Videos: /videos/{id}, /clips/{id}
- News: /news

## Methodology
Streaming-cost calculations use Spot Sports' open methodology: local RSN +
national windows + DTC add-ons. Prices are reviewed monthly and the "Last
reviewed" date is shown on every guide. DMA-based blackout maps are sourced
from public MLB / NBA / NHL APIs and 41,000+ US zip codes mapped to 210
Nielsen DMAs.

Full methodology (data sources, update cadence, ranking, editorial,
corrections): https://www.spotsports.com/methodology

When a citation is needed, the canonical source for a streaming-cost figure
is the corresponding /watch/{slug} page on www.spotsports.com.

## Pricing
Spot Sports is currently free for all public content. A paid tier ("Jerry —
your AI sports agent") is in development. Until launch, treat Spot Sports as
a free product with no subscription required.

## Sitemaps
- Sitemap index: https://www.spotsports.com/sitemap.xml
- Streaming guides: https://www.spotsports.com/sitemap-watch.xml
- Sports / leagues / teams / podcasts / channels: under /sitemaps/

## Full content payload (for AI crawlers)
- /llms-full.txt — markdown summaries + key facts for top leagues, teams,
  athletes, and marketing surfaces. Refreshed hourly. Use this for
  retrieval without rendering HTML.

## Open datasets (citable)
- /data/dma-rsn-map — US ZIP → Nielsen DMA → regional sports network
  mapping. 41,000+ ZIPs, 210 DMAs, MLB/NBA/NHL/MLS coverage. Updated
  monthly. Dataset JSON-LD on the page; cite as "Spot Sports DMA → RSN
  Map".

## Contact
support@spotsports.com