About StatLine
Last updated: April 27, 2026
What this site is
StatLine is an independent sports-analytics site for people who would rather look at numbers than scroll through a homepage of clickbait. It covers the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, and Premier League — team records, player stats, league standings, statistical leaders, and head-to-head player comparisons — in one consistent layout that works the same way no matter which sport you're looking at.
The data is pulled from publicly available league feeds and refreshed automatically on a schedule. Every page is a few keystrokes from every other page. There are no paywalls, no logins, no autoplaying video, and no popovers asking for your email. If you came here to find out how Joel Embiid's true shooting percentage compares to Karl-Anthony Towns', you should be looking at it within ten seconds of landing on the home page.
Why it exists
Most sports sites are built for somebody other than the reader. They're built for advertisers, for SEO, for keeping you on the site as long as possible. The data you actually came for is buried three clicks deep below an autoplaying interview clip and a "you may also like" rail.
StatLine is the opposite design. The home page is a search bar and a few quick links. The team and player pages are stat tables, with whatever context belongs around them and nothing else. The whole site is built so that a question like who's leading the league in rebounds this season? takes a few seconds to answer, not a few minutes of fighting with a UI that wants to do something else.
Who runs it
StatLine is built and maintained by Tim Baum, an independent developer based in the United States. There's no editorial team, no investor, no analytics consultancy behind it — just one person who wanted a stats site that worked the way he thought stats sites should work, and decided to build one. Article bylines, when they appear, are mine.
How the data works
Team records, rosters, schedules, and statistical leaders are pulled from public league APIs and ESPN's public endpoints. The data is refreshed automatically on a daily schedule, so what you see on the site is generally current as of that morning's run. For sports in playoff windows or other high-cadence stretches, the refresh frequency is increased so scores don't go stale. The "Updated…" timestamp on the home page tells you exactly how fresh the snapshot is.
Whenever a primary league source provides better or more accurate data than ESPN's general-purpose endpoint — for example, MLB's own Stats API for baseball, or the NHL's public API for hockey — the primary source is preferred. ESPN is the universal fallback because it covers every sport with a consistent schema.
What's next
The roadmap is straightforward: more historical depth (multiple seasons of player game logs), better contextual writing on team and player pages, advanced stats where they belong (true shooting, expected goals, WAR), and a small library of original analysis pieces in the Articles section. If there's a feature you wish StatLine had, the Contact page is the place to tell me.