The tiers
Aggregators fail in one specific way: everything arrives looking equally true. So nothing here runs without a tier attached, and the tier goes in the item, not in a footnote.
- T1Insider, or verified. Named, on the record, with a track record to check it against.
- T2Beat writers and hard data. Close to it, and usually right.
- T3Blogs, podcasts, opinion. Worth your time. Not worth your certainty.
- T4Unverified. Still gets run, but labeled thin rather than quietly dressed up.
What's coming
- FeedEvery Ducks item worth reading, ranked, tiered, and linked back to whoever did the work.
- CalendarGames, deadlines, promo and theme nights, watch parties, drops. Subscribable, so it sits on your phone instead of in a tab.
- ProspectsWhat the pipeline did last night, wherever in the world it happened to be playing.
- StatsFive-on-five numbers turned into a sentence, for the people who don't read stat tables.
- CapWhere the money actually is, and what it means for the next signing.
- DropsTeam-store and collab releases, plus how fast the last one sold out.
Who
Built by Renold Aparicio in Orange County. Independent: no team, no league, no network, nobody's ad budget.
A lot of the gathering is done by software, and there's no reason to be coy about that. What it's allowed to say, how sources get ranked, and whether any of it was worth publishing is on me.
If you run a podcast, a stats site, a cap site or a local brand and you'd rather be linked than scraped: that's the plan, and an email gets you a say in how.
- Generalhello@theduckshub.com
- Tipstips@theduckshub.com