Corrections policy
We publish hundreds of automated articles. When something is wrong, we fix it openly.
What we correct
Any factual claim on the site that turns out to be inaccurate — a misstated stat, a wrong projected lineup, a stale injury status, a misattributed quote, an incorrect odds figure, a graded result that disagrees with a sportsbook's settled outcome. We correct the published article in place rather than removing it, unless the entire premise is unsupported (in which case we unpublish and link to a corrected article from the original URL).
How a correction is disclosed
- The corrected article carries a "Corrected on YYYY-MM-DD" banner at the top of the page.
- The banner summarizes what was wrong and what changed.
- The article's
dateModifiedinNewsArticlestructured data is updated. - The full correction history for an article is persisted in the article record and can be inspected via the editorial dashboard.
What we do not do
- We do not silently rewrite published articles to change their narrative or pick.
- We do not delete losing picks from the public performance tracker.
- We do not retroactively change odds, lines, or pick-time grading metadata. If a pick was graded against the wrong line, we re-grade and disclose the change rather than overwriting the historical row.
Performance grading corrections
Picks are graded against the persisted pick-time market line, market odds, and bookmaker. If a result row is found to lack one of those fields, the row is demoted from official to research with a demoted_reason annotation, the daily summary is rebuilt from surviving officials, and the change is reflected on the public performance page. We do not recalculate W-L records using post-game odds.
How to request a correction
Email hello@thecapper.io with:
- The article URL and the specific claim you believe is wrong.
- The corrected fact and a source we can verify against (MLB StatsAPI, Baseball Savant, an official team injury report, a sportsbook screenshot with timestamp, etc.).
- If the issue is a pick grade, the bookmaker and the line you believe should have been used.
We aim to respond within 48 hours and to publish a correction within 72 hours of confirming the issue.
Audit trail
Every correction is logged. The editorial dashboard surfaces correction history per article so the operator can verify that disclosures are visible and the underlying ledger entries reflect the change.