> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://sportsindex.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Welcome to Sports Index

> College football's most powerful market-intelligence platform

Sports Index measures **attention and influence** for every FBS college football athlete. We index news and social coverage from a published set of sources, attribute every story to the athletes and programs it covers, and turn that corpus into rankings, statistics, AI-written daily stories, and per-athlete intelligence pages — alternative data for the NIL era.

## What Sports Index does

<Cards>
  <Card title="Indexes coverage" icon="newspaper">
    Thousands of stories and posts from national outlets, team media, and official accounts — every item attributed to the athletes and programs it covers.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Ranks influence" icon="ranking-star">
    The Influence Leaderboard and attention metrics track who's driving the conversation, backed by follower data and on-field statistics.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Writes the day's stories" icon="robot">
    An AI newsroom selects the biggest storylines each day and writes cited articles from the indexed coverage — every claim links to its source.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Publishes its sources" icon="list-check">
    The source sets behind the indices are public, with live post counts and coverage spans, so the data is always inspectable.
  </Card>
</Cards>

## Who it's for

* **Collectives & brands** — understand which athletes command attention before committing NIL dollars
* **Media & analysts** — a ranked, filterable view of the sport's coverage landscape
* **Programs & athletes** — see and claim your page; track your own coverage and reach
* **Fans** — follow the athletes, programs, and stories driving college football

## Key concepts

### Athlete & team pages

Every tracked athlete and program has a public page at `sportsindex.io/topic/{name}` aggregating their coverage, statistics, social reach, and media — generated and updated automatically. Athletes can [claim their page](/guide/topics/claiming) for editorial control.

### The Influence Leaderboard

The ranked view of college football attention: follower bases, growth, and coverage volume for 6,000+ Power 4 athletes, at [sportsindex.io/leaderboard](https://sportsindex.io/leaderboard).

### Indexed coverage & attribution

Every story and post we ingest flows through an attribution engine that links it to the athletes and programs it covers. Browse the full corpus — filterable by player, school, conference, source, and date — in the [Newsroom](https://sportsindex.io/newsroom). See [How the Index Works](/guide/methodology) for the methodology.

## Explore the platform

<Steps>
  <Step title="Start at Explore">
    [sportsindex.io/explore](https://sportsindex.io/explore) — the daily hub: trending athletes, top coverage, AI stories, and the market table.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Take the quick tour">
    The [Quick Start](/guide/quick-start) walks every surface in five minutes.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Build on the data">
    The [public API](/dev/introduction) exposes topics, stats, leaderboards, and content — no key required for read-only endpoints.
  </Step>
</Steps>