Pacy
Editorial standards
The standards Pacy holds its results, predictions and articles to: accuracy, attribution, human approval, independence and open corrections.
Pacy publishes three things: match data, predictions and writing about sport. Each has its own standard, and all three share one rule: we would rather show less than show something we cannot stand behind. This page sets out the standards every result, prediction and article is held to.
Right before fast
A result is reconciled across the sources we collect. When accounts disagree, the one we can corroborate wins, not the first to arrive.
Estimates say so
Every prediction is labelled as Pacy's own estimate, and is graded against the real result once the match is played.
Credit where it is due
News first reported elsewhere names and links the outlet. We do not rewrite other publications' articles.
A person decides
No article publishes itself. An editor approves every piece before it goes live.
The checks every article passes
- Grounded in facts. Every factual claim must come from Pacy's own match data or from a named, established outlet. A claim with neither is removed.
- Original. Each draft is compared with its sources. One that follows another outlet's wording too closely is rejected.
- Attributed. Quotes and reported facts carry their source by name. Where a claim is disputed, the article says who is making it.
- Approved. An editor reads the finished piece in the review queue and decides whether it is published. Rejected drafts stay unpublished.
Accuracy of results
A score is either right or wrong; there is no editorial judgement in it. Pacy reconciles the accounts it receives into one record per match. A source that proves unreliable is dropped, not patched around. Postponed and cancelled games are labelled as such, never left looking like upcoming fixtures.
Saying what is not known
Where Pacy does not have something (a lineup, a venue, a timeline) the page leaves it out or says so. We do not guess a fact and present it as reported. If live updates stop arriving, the page says the data is delayed. It does not keep showing the last score as live.
Predictions are analysis, not fact
Win probabilities come from Pacy's own rating model. They are labelled as estimates wherever they appear and kept visibly separate from reported results. Every prediction is scored against the final result, so the model is judged by its record, not by its confidence. How it works is set out in the data methodology.
Separating fact from opinion
Reporting and analysis are distinguishable on the page. Anything that is Pacy's view or Pacy's model is attributed to Pacy, and is not presented as something a club, player or official said.
How we use AI
We use AI tools to help prepare first drafts of articles. They do not decide what is published. Every draft is checked against our data and named sources, and an editor approves it before it goes live. We say this openly because readers deserve to know how the writing is produced.
Independence
No coverage decision is made in exchange for payment. Pacy does not accept money to feature a team, a competition or a betting operator. It does not publish odds as a recommendation to bet, and its predictions are not betting advice.
Images and rights
Pacy uses no text or photography without the right to use it, and images carry their credit where one is required. The full rules are in the sourcing policy.
When we get it wrong
Mistakes are corrected in the open. A corrected score is marked on the match. A corrected article carries a dated note saying what was wrong. Nothing is quietly deleted or rewritten to make an error disappear. See the corrections policy, or tell us at [email protected].