Own the teams.And the information advantage.

SportsOne acquires minority equity in U.S. professional sports teams, an asset class with twenty years of proven low correlation and above market IRRs. And it owns the information advantage: the atomic record and the live price on the athlete economy around those teams.

<40%
Target mix · U.S. team equity
20YR
Proven low correlation · above market IRRs
<1s
Catalyst to reprice · the value add
24/7/365
Session
01 · The anchor

Teams are the anchor asset.

SportsOne acquires minority equity in U.S. professional sports teams. Twenty years of proven low correlation and above market IRRs, permanent scarcity, and league governed supply. The equity is the balance sheet. Everything else in the firm compounds against it, and the equity feeds it back: owned assets are the proof ground and the signal source for the engine that raises their value.

The anchor

Team equity

U.S. sports teams minority equity acquisitions. Twenty years of proven low correlation and above market IRRs for team ownership in the major U.S. leagues.

TARGET MIX <40%
Category consolidating

Sports intelligence

The value add. Proprietary data model, taxonomy, indices, and moneyball serving prediction and gaming, NIL, LLMs, and search, and the roll up of the same. The record, the Z Score, the tape, and the indices, applied first to what the firm owns.

TARGET MIX 40-50%
Hyperscaled by

Emerging growth

The athlete economy. Innovating the next great asset class with direct and digital fan economies, distributed by the athletes themselves. Every new surface returns signal to the record.

TARGET MIX 5-10%
EQUITYANCHORINTELLIGENCECONSOLIDATEEMERGINGHYPERSCALESPORTSONEONE FIRM · THREE SURFACES
01Scarce supply
02League governed
03Low correlation · 20yr
04Minority access
The compounding pair

Equity

The anchor
Access · consent · proof ground · proprietary signal
Underwriting · roster value · sponsor yield · exit pricing

Intelligence

The multiplier

Buy what you can price. Price what you own.

02 · The value add
THE EQUITY FEEDS THE ENGINE · THE ENGINE PRICES THE EQUITY

An intelligence company pricing the sports economy for the first time.

Signal vaporizes. A career night, a viral moment, a transfer rumor, a jersey run: the athlete economy produces it constantly and captures almost none of it, because nothing resolves it and attaches it to economic activity. SportsOne consolidates that signal into one atomic record per athlete and activates it as a price. Not a repricing of an existing market; the first price this market has ever had, underpinned by resolved data. Vibes to actuality, and SportsOne is sports' first and only public, vertically complete scaler of the transition.

Noun · 01

A record

The atomic record: identity, performance, audience, and commercial standing, resolved from every source into one governed unit per athlete, every value cited. It is the unit of account this economy has been missing, and only a firm with athlete consent, licensed sources, and an equity seat inside the industry can legitimately assemble it.

Noun · 02

A price

The Z Score. A weighted score that prices economic utility on a 0 to 100 scale, repriced continuously. When momentum moves, the score and every price attached to it move with it.

Noun · 03

A utility

Delivered as data. Read by sportsbooks, brands, clubs, funds, and machines, the way a rating, a benchmark, or a terminal price is read. Nobody thinks about it. Everybody clears on it.

Who a priced athlete economy activates
Athletes

Value becomes portable and bankable: a cited record to price NIL, endorsements, and financing against, owned with consent.

Brands

Spend becomes an investment: priced before commitment, forecast with an interval, measured after, fed back into the record.

Clubs & leagues

Rosters and sponsorship inventory marked to a market instead of carried on instinct and a comp set nobody can verify.

Markets & machines

Books, prediction markets, media, and models read one number with provenance instead of assembling from noise.

×Not a media company
×Not an agency
×Not a fan app
×Not a ranking
Market infrastructure
03 · The platform
01 / 04
ATLAS · SURFACE 01

One record
per athlete

An atomic source of truth beneath the price

The world produces thousands of fragments about every athlete. Atlas resolves them into one atomic record with named provenance on every value. Nothing counts unattributed, and nothing is scraped.

ATLAS · RESOLUTION · LIVE
SURFACE 01 / 04
Z SCORE · SURFACE 02

The number
the market reads

Live · segmented · hierarchical · deployable by API

A weighted score that prices economic utility, designed for benchmarking and deployment into every modern sports platform. The inputs are observable. The blend is not. When momentum moves, the score and every price attached to it move with it.

J. Meridian Hypothetical
GUARD · EMERGING TIER · AGE 21 · CONSENT VERIFIED · REC 0x4A19
Performance
Audience
Commercial
78.4
Z SCORE · CONTINUOUS · ILLUSTRATIVE
Momentum
Brand
Media
AWAITING NEXT SIGNAL…
Z SCORE · ONE ATHLETE · LIVE
SURFACE 02 / 04
TAPE · SURFACE 03

Repricing,
as it happens

Event stream · sub second on catalyst

Every move on every record, streamed the moment it clears. Each event names the record it touched and the class of signal that moved it, so a desk acts on the cause, not the aftermath. By the time it is news, it is on the tape.

TAPE · EVENT STREAM · LIVE
SURFACE 03 / 04
INDICES · SURFACE 04

Cohorts,
as instruments

SPONE index family · rules based · point in time

Composite, tier, and momentum indices with published constituent rules and rebalance policy. Deterministic, versioned, and reconstructable at any historical date. The precondition for anything traded to reference it.

SPONE COMPOSITESPONE EMERGINGSPONE MOMENTUMSPONE PRO 100SPONE FAMILY · DAILY CLOSE
SURFACE 04 / 04

PRICED IN.

BY THE TIME IT IS NEWS · IT IS IN THE NUMBER
04 · The blend

Hundreds of signals in. One number out.

Everything that enters the record is observable somewhere in the world. What the market cannot see is how it becomes a price. The blend, the calibration, and the machinery are proprietary. They are versioned, audited under agreement, and never published.

METHODOLOGY · EXCERPT 03.2CONTROLLED
The Z Score is produced by ██████████████ applied over ████ observed signal classes, where each class is ████████ against its cohort and carried at a reliability of ██████. Catalyst events are admitted through ██████████, decayed by ████████, and settled into the published value when ████████████████ clears threshold ████. Weights are refit on a ██████ cadence against realized ██████████ outcomes.
DISTRIBUTION: COUNTERPARTIES UNDER AGREEMENT ONLY
Examined · Not published
Observable in
  • League feeds
  • Platforms
  • Media
  • Demand
  • First party
Sealed
Proprietary through
  • Resolution
  • Blend
  • Calibration
Public out
  • One record
  • One price
  • One tape
Lineage
FICO scorecards · Moody's rated factors · Kalman filtering · Conformal calibration
Discipline
Interpretable weights · Calibrated intervals · Deterministic replay · Built to survive diligence
Swap test
Model A78.4
Model B78.3
Model C78.6
Same record · same weights · drift ≤ 0.2
The model is swappable. The score is not.
05 · The athlete economy

The most fragmented market in sports is the athletes themselves.

NIL collectives, endorsements, transfer fees, appearance money, licensing, content revenue, merchandise, royalties. Each pool is priced in its own silo, on its own instincts, with no shared record underneath any of them. In the era of NIL and athlete owned distribution, unification is not a strategy. It is an inevitability. The only question is who holds the record it unifies around.

NIL · annual
≈$1.7B
EST · OPENDORSE
Global sports sponsorship · annual
≈$100B
EST
Global football transfer fees · annual
≈$10B
EST · FIFA
Shared record underneath
NONE
UNTIL NOW
TODAY · PRICED IN SILOSON SPORTSONE · ONE RECORD, ONE PRICENILSILOEDSPONSORSHIPSILOEDTRANSFERSILOEDAPPEARANCESILOEDLICENSINGSILOEDCONTENTSILOEDMERCHSILOEDROYALTIESSILOEDREC 0X4A19 · J. MERIDIANCONSENT ✓Z 78.4CONTINUOUS · LIVENIL12.4SPONSORSHIP31.7TRANSFER8.9APPEARANCE5.2LICENSING7.6CONTENT14.1MERCH4.8ROYALTIES6.3EVERY POOL · ONE RECORD · ONE PRICE
TODAY · PRICED IN SILOS
NILSPONSORSHIPTRANSFERAPPEARANCELICENSINGCONTENTMERCHROYALTIES
REC 0X4A19 · J. MERIDIANZ 78.4
NIL12.4
SPONSORSHIP31.7
TRANSFER8.9
APPEARANCE5.2
LICENSING7.6
CONTENT14.1
MERCH4.8
ROYALTIES6.3
EVERY POOL · ONE RECORD · ONE PRICE
ILLUSTRATIVE · HYPOTHETICAL PROFILE · VALUES DIRECTIONAL
06 · The loop
THE FIRST POOL TO UNIFY · BRAND SPEND

Every brand dollar becomes a data point.

The Z Score turns every athlete and creator into priced inventory. Brands see a live valuation and a forecast of attribution before they spend, the way a modern ad platform prices and predicts a placement. The network takes a fee on each deal and feeds the result back into the record, so the pricing gets more accurate the more the market transacts. From vibes to actuality.

MATCH LOOP · CONTINUOUSBRIEFAUDIENCE · BUDGETKPIMATCHRECORDAFFINITYFORECASTRETURNBEFORE SPENDCLEARBIDWINDOWMEASUREOUTCOMESETTLEMEASURED OUTCOMES RETRAIN THE MATCH
TODAY · POPULARITY & VIBESSPORTSONE · QUANTIFIED & FORECAST
07 · Who reads it

Five desks. One number.

No.DeskThe question it answersThe surfaceStatus
D-01
Sportsbooks
What moved, and why, before the market prices it. Momentum and availability move lines before they reach a box score.
Tape · point in time replay · API
Live
BOOKS · PREDICTION MARKETS · TRADING DESKS
D-02
Brands & agencies
What an athlete should cost, and what it will return. A live valuation and a forecast before the spend, a measurement after it.
Z Score · match · forecast
Live
TALENT AGENCIES · DTC AND CPG BRANDS · AGENCY DESKS
D-03
Clubs & leagues
Which assets on our books are mispriced. Every athlete on the roster, priced on the same scale the market uses.
Atlas · cohort benchmarks
Live
CLUB FRONT OFFICES · LEAGUE COMMERCIAL · RIGHTS HOLDERS
D-04
Funds & licensees
Whether a cohort can be held as an instrument. Rules based indices with the audit trail institutional product requires.
SPONE indices · licensing
Pilot
FUNDS · INDEX LICENSEES · INSTITUTIONAL ALLOCATORS
D-05
AI & search
Where ground truth about athletes comes from. A licensed, citable record with source attribution on every value.
Atlas · licensed record
Pilot
FOUNDATION MODELS · SEARCH · SPORTS MEDIA PLATFORMS
08 · Coverage

Wherever the signal is.

Coverage runs from the major professional leagues through collegiate, federated, and emerging tiers, across every territory that produces commercial signal. Federated athletes onboard through their national and international federations, with consent carried at the record level. The graph widens every week, and no record is ever removed. On the right, each color is a source class that has always lived apart: league feeds, platforms, media, demand, deal registries, first party. Watch them converge, value by value, into individual athlete records.

U.S. · Professional
≈20K
EST · BLS
U.S. · Collegiate
520K+
NCAA
U.S. · High school
7.9M
NFHS
World · Professional
≈500K
EST
World · Organized amateur
500M+
EST
Provenance
100%
EVERY VALUE CITED

PUBLIC ESTIMATES · U.S. BLS · NCAA · NFHS · DIRECTIONAL, NOT AUDITED. THE RECORD IS BUILT FOR ALL OF THEM.

Sports40+
Competitive tiersPro · collegiate · federated · emerging
Territories60+
RefreshContinuous
184,203RECORDS RESOLVED · THIS SESSION
AthletesPROFEDERATEDEMERGING
Signal inLEAGUEPLATFORMSMEDIADEMANDREGISTRYFIRST PARTY
DISPARATE SOURCES → ONE RECORD · LIVE
09 · Assurance

Built to be audited.

SOURCED THE RIGHT WAY · RESOLVED UNDER GOVERNANCE · DOC 09
09.1

Reproducible

Any published value can be regenerated exactly as it stood on the day it was published. There is no number on the platform that cannot be produced twice.

09.2

Point in time

The record is reconstructable at any historical date. Nothing is overwritten, which is what allows backtests, disputes, and diligence to reference the past honestly.

09.3

Versioned

Records, prices, and the machinery that produces them carry version identity end to end. When something changes, the change has a name and a date.

09.4

Consent and license

First party data is used with permission and verified identity. Third party data is accessed under commercial license or from public record, each source through its appropriate vetted channel. The record is not from web scraping, and every value keeps its provenance.

09.5

Isolation

Athlete and customer data are isolated per account. Resolution patterns compound across the platform. The underlying records never do.

09.6

Read in place

Sources stay in their own systems. SportsOne reads them in context and writes one resolved record, rather than copying anyone's database wholesale. The graph is living; new sources onboard continuously and none are removed.

09.7

Examined, not published

The methodology stands for independent review under agreement. Counterparties can inspect it. Competitors can read this page.

Figures shown on this site are illustrative and directional. They are not audited results, not financial guidance, and not a representation of any individual athlete's value.

10 · The precedent

Every mature market clears on a reference number.

Credit clears on a rating. Lending clears on a score. Securities clear on a terminal price, and allocation clears on an index. In each case one firm owns the number, the number gets written into contracts and workflows, and the owner compounds for decades. The sports economy is the last major market without one. SportsOne is building the number while holding the anchor asset it prices, minority equity in the teams themselves.

No.FirmThe numberThe market it pricesEst.
P-01
Moody's
The rating. A letter grade that prices default risk, referenced in covenants and mandates worldwide.
Credit
1909
P-02
FICO
The score. A three digit number that clears nearly every consumer lending decision in America.
Consumer lending
1956
P-03
MSCI
The index. Rules based benchmarks that trillions in allocation are written against.
Asset allocation
1969
P-04
Bloomberg
The terminal price. One screen the entire market reads, priced per seat, never discounted.
Securities
1981
P-05
SportsOne
The Z Score. The reference price of athlete economic utility, written into the contracts, campaigns, and books that clear on it.
The sports economy
Forming now

Proven, in public and in private.

Sports is already an institutional asset class, and sports data is already an institutional product. Three firms de-risk this thesis. None is a competitor, because none holds both sides of the trade and none owns the number. Each proves a leg.

The asset class is compounding
Big four U.S. leagues · aggregate franchise value≈$500BEST · SPORTICO
Franchise values · 20 year growth rate≈12%/YREST · ROSS-ARCTOS INDEX
U.S. legal wagering handle · annual≈$150BEST · AGA
U.S. sports media rights · annual≈$30BEST
PUBLIC ESTIMATES · DIRECTIONAL · SEE SOURCES
HIGHEST VALUEHOLDS THE ASSETOWNS THE NUMBEREXPOSURE TO FRANCHISE APPRECIATION →how directly the firm participates in team equity gainsDATA & PLATFORM MULTIPLE →how the market values the revenueData platformsSPORTRADAR · ≈$3.8BGENIUS · ≈$2.2BTeam equityARCTOS → KKR · $1.4B30+ FRANCHISE STAKESS1SPORTSONE
ILLUSTRATIVE POSITIONING · NOT TO SCALE · MULTIPLES AND MOMENTUM DIRECTIONAL
Proves · data at scale
≈$3.8BMARKET CAP · AUG 2026
FY25 REVENUE $1.29B · +16.6%

Public markets already fund sports data infrastructure in the billions. Demand for the layer is settled law.

Proves · licensed feeds
Genius SportsNYSE · GENI ↗
≈$2.2BMARKET CAP · AUG 2026
FY25 REVENUE $669M · +31% · NFL DATA THROUGH 2029

League licensed official data carries durable value, and prediction markets just became buyers of it.

Proves · the anchor asset
ArctosPRIVATE · KKR
$1.4BACQUIRED BY KKR · INITIAL CONSIDERATION · 2026
≈$16B AUM · 30+ FRANCHISE STAKES

Institutional capital validated minority team equity as an asset class, then paid a premium for the platform that held it.

Arctos proved the equity. Sportradar and Genius proved the data. SportsOne is the first to hold both sides of the trade, and the only one building the number.

QUOTES INDICATIVE AND DELAYED · LINKS TO PUBLIC SOURCES · NOT AN OFFER OR A RECOMMENDATION · NO AFFILIATION OR ENDORSEMENT IMPLIED

Embedded

The number gets written in

Once a score is referenced in a contract, a campaign, or a book, removing it costs more than keeping it. Every new reference deepens the standard.

Compounding

Every transaction sharpens it

Measured outcomes return to the record, so pricing accuracy grows with volume. The moat is the accumulated record, and it cannot be bought retroactively.

Zero marginal

One record serves every desk

The same resolved record clears sportsbooks, sponsorship, rosters, indices, and machines. The next reader of the number costs nothing to serve.