Editorial Policy

How our content is made

WNBA does not employ human writers or editors to produce player and team pages. Instead, content is generated by a data pipeline: statistics are fetched from ESPN’s public WNBA feeds (teams, rosters, scores, standings and season statistics), refreshed by a daily pipeline — not an official WNBA data source and not a live real-time feed outside the live-scores widget, validated, and used to fill deterministic templates — the same real numbers are always used to produce the same description, and nothing is invented or guessed when data is missing. Some narrative sections (game previews and recaps, season and series summaries, team, record, and award write-ups) are additionally drafted by a generative AI model working only from that same verified data.

What "verified data only" means here

If a statistic, record, or fact isn't present in our underlying data, we don't generate placeholder or estimated content for it — the relevant page or section is left out entirely rather than filled with a guess. This applies across the whole site: bios, standings, records, and daily features alike, including every AI-drafted narrative section.

AI-assisted narrative

Where generative AI is used, it is constrained: each content type has a fixed contract defining exactly which verified data the model receives, the model is instructed never to introduce statistics or facts of its own, its output is validated against that same contract after generation, and links are inserted by deterministic code rather than written by the model. Pages containing AI-generated text carry a visible note linking to our AI Disclosure, which describes this in full. The AI step writes description, not opinion — no winner predictions and no speculation beyond the data.

Corrections

If you spot an error in our underlying data or generated content, please let us know at contact@womenhoops360.com and we'll look into it.