The Sports Page License

0. Definitions

• “The Work” — all content in this project and published at thesportspage.net: the written issues, the Sunday Editions, the concept primers, the statistical methods and frameworks, the figures and charts, the design system, and the supporting code, in whole or in any part.
• “The Author” — The Sports Page, the copyright holder, reachable at the contact address below.
• “You” — any person or organization exercising the permissions in this License.
• “Commercial gain” — any use primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or monetary compensation. This includes, without limitation: selling or licensing the Work; placing it behind a paywall; using it in advertising or paid promotion; bundling it with a paid product or service; or using it to train, fine-tune, or evaluate any model or system that is offered or operated for commercial gain.
• “Adaptation” — anything you create that is based on, derived from, translated from, remixes, transforms, or substantially reuses the Work — including reuse of its distinctive ideas, methods, or analytical frameworks.

1. What you may do freely

Subject to Sections 2–6, and at no charge, you may read and privately enjoy the Work; share verbatim, unaltered copies of an individual issue, primer, or figure, by any medium; and quote briefly — up to roughly fifty words, or a single stat card or figure — for commentary, criticism, teaching, or discussion. That’s the giveaway part. It requires no permission, only that you honor Sections 2 and 3.

2. Attribution

Whenever you share or quote, you must credit The Sports Page by name, include a working link to https://thesportspage.net/, and keep this License and all copyright notices intact on any copy. You may not imply that The Author endorses you or your use.

3. Non-commercial, always

You may not use the Work, or any Adaptation of it, for commercial gain as defined in Section 0. This condition has no expiration and is not waived by any other permission in this License. If you are unsure whether your use is commercial, assume it is, and ask. (Genuinely unsure? The quiz helps.)

4. Ask first (anything beyond Section 1)

If you want to do anything more than read, share verbatim, or briefly quote — in particular, create an Adaptation, republish a substantial portion, or reuse the Work’s ideas, methods, or frameworks in your own work — you must contact The Author in advance and obtain written permission. Permission, when granted, may carry conditions, and is always non-commercial. The door is open; please knock.

5. Give it back better

If The Author grants you permission under Section 4 and you make an Adaptation, then: (a) you will send your Adaptation, and a plain description of what you changed and improved, back to The Author; (b) you will license your Adaptation to the public under this same License, in its entirety, with no added restrictions and nothing removed; and (c) your Adaptation will keep attribution to The Sports Page and a link back to thesportspage.net. What you borrowed comes home, and it comes home improved. That is the whole bargain.

6. What you may never do

Use the Work or any Adaptation for commercial gain (§3); remove, obscure, or alter copyright notices, attribution, or this License; sublicense, relicense, or apply terms that restrict the rights this License grants to others; use the Work to train, fine-tune, or evaluate any model or system operated for commercial gain; or present an Adaptation as the original, or imply endorsement by The Author.

7. Reservation of rights and exceptions

All rights not expressly granted here are reserved by The Author. The Author may grant written exceptions to any term of this License — including commercial permissions — entirely at their discretion. An exception applies only to the specific use it names.

8. No warranty

The Work is provided “as is,” without warranty of any kind. The Author is not liable for any claim, damages, or other liability arising from the Work or its use, to the fullest extent permitted by law. Statistics are checked carefully but are offered for interest and discussion, not as professional, financial, or wagering advice.

9. Termination

Your rights under this License end automatically if you breach it. They are reinstated if you cure the breach within 30 days of becoming aware of it. Sections 0, 3, 6, 8, and this sentence survive termination.

10. Interpretation

This License is written in plain language on purpose. Where a term needs a more formal definition than is given here, interpret it consistently with the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), which is the nearest standard equivalent to the freely-granted portion of this License. Where this License is more restrictive — notably the “ask first” requirement of Section 4 and the “share it back” requirement of Section 5(a) — this License controls.