About Analytics207

How This Started (A Cautionary Tale)

Analytics207 started the way most slightly unhinged passion projects start: someone watched a basketball game, disagreed with the rankings, and said the four most dangerous words in the English language: "I could do better."

That was supposed to be one spreadsheet. Maybe two. A weekend project at most. Fast forward to today and we are tracking eleven sports, 129+ schools, hundreds of teams, and thousands of individual athletes across the entire state of Maine. The spreadsheet has become a database. The database has become an empire. The empire has consumed all available free time and most of our social lives.

We are a small team of sports obsessed gremlins who built every page, every model, and every feature from scratch. We have no investors. No corporate backing. No interns making coffee runs. Just an unreasonable love for Maine high school sports, way too many late nights crunching numbers, and the kind of stubbornness that therapists probably have a clinical name for.

Our families have stopped asking "what are you working on?" They already know. It is always this.

Why We Do This

Here is what we believe, and we believe it down to our bones: every single student athlete in the state of Maine deserves to be celebrated. Not just the kids at the big schools. Not just the ones whose games make the evening news. Not just the ones whose highlight reels end up on social media. Every single one of them.

We live in a world that pulls kids in a thousand directions. Video games, social media, jobs, burnout, the general chaos of being a teenager in 2026. And yet these kids choose to wake up early, push their bodies to the limit, sacrifice weekends, ride buses to towns three hours away, and compete for their school. That is remarkable. That deserves to be seen.

The kid at a Class D school in The County who just ran a personal best 5K in the rain deserves the same data, the same progression chart, and the same recognition as the kid at the Class AA powerhouse in southern Maine. The sophomore on a hockey team that went 4 and 14 who still showed up every single day deserves to have their stats tracked just as thoroughly as the state champion. The freshman sprinter who shaved 0.3 seconds off their 55 meter dash at an indoor meet that twelve people attended deserves a platform that noticed.

That is why we built this. Not for the money (trust us). Not for the fame (there is none). We built it because these kids work too hard for nobody to be paying attention. Analytics207 is paying attention.

We Are Data Nerds. Unapologetically.

We process over 80,000 data points across 129+ schools covering eleven sports. We know the difference between a 5K cross country race and a 2 mile event (this was a harder lesson than you would think). We care about details that most people would never notice, and we lose sleep over edge cases that affect maybe three athletes in the entire state.

We think the right chart can tell a story that words cannot. We think a progression curve is poetry. We think that when a kid drops 30 seconds off their PR over the course of a season, that arc should be visible to anyone who cares to look. We make sure it is.

Ten Sports. One Platform. Zero Chill.

Most analytics sites pick one sport and call it a day. We looked at that approach, said "that seems reasonable and healthy," and then immediately did the opposite. Because why cover one sport when you can cover ten and never sleep?

Yes, we know. We need a hobby. This IS the hobby. That is the problem.

For the Moms and Dads

Let us paint a picture. Your daughter just ran a cross country race. She is covered in mud, breathing like she just escaped a building fire, and somehow smiling. She says "I think that was my best time." You nod supportively. You have no idea if that is true. You were standing at the wrong part of the course and missed the finish. Again.

Analytics207 is for you. Search your kid by name and you get everything: every race, every time, every personal record, a progression chart that shows their improvement across the entire season, and rankings that tell you exactly where they stand against every other athlete in Maine. You will finally be able to answer the question "how did I do?" with something more specific than "great, honey."

Your son plays hockey? We have his team's power rating, their strength of schedule, their projected tournament seed, and a matchup lab that shows how they stack up against any opponent. Your daughter throws shot put? We have her PR, her state ranking, her consistency score, and her progression across indoor and outdoor seasons.

You drive the carpool. You wash the uniforms. You sit in the cold for three hours on a Tuesday night. You deserve a platform that tracks your kid's hard work as seriously as you take it. That is us. Share the profile with grandma. Text the PR chart to the uncle who coached JV fifteen years ago and still considers himself an expert. This is your bragging ammunition now.

For Coaches Who Want an Edge

You already know your team. You know who shows up to practice, who works hard in the weight room, and who mysteriously develops a hamstring issue every time you schedule hill repeats. What you might not have is data on the 189 other schools you could face this season.

Analytics207 gives you scouting tools, team comparisons, power rankings, depth charts, and pre-meet projections that used to require a full-time analytics staff, a budget, and someone who actually enjoys pivot tables. The War Room lets you pick an opponent and see exactly how your roster matches up, position by position, before you even load the bus. The Race Planner lets you project team scores against multiple opponents at once. The Season Dashboard gives you a bird's eye view of every athlete's trajectory across the season.

Think of it as a coaching assistant that never complains, never misses a meeting, never shows up late with coffee, and runs entirely on math. It costs $7.99 a month instead of a full-time salary. We think that is a decent deal. Your athletic director will think so too.

For the Athletes (This Is Your Stage)

You put in the work. The 6 AM practices. The interval workouts that made you reconsider your choice of sport entirely. The off-season training that nobody sees and nobody claps for. The ice baths. The foam rolling. The inexplicable amount of pasta you consume before every competition.

The world pulls you in a million directions. Social media wants your attention. Netflix wants your evenings. Your phone wants your soul. And yet you choose to compete. You choose to push your body, represent your school, ride a bus to a town you have never heard of, and give everything you have for a final time, a final score, a final place. That takes guts. That takes character. That deserves to be documented.

Analytics207 tracks every result, every PR, and every improvement so you have a permanent record of everything you have accomplished. Your progression chart is proof that the work is working. Your state ranking is proof that you belong. Your consistency score is proof that you show up and compete even when it is 35 degrees and raining sideways and nobody is in the stands.

Share your profile with college coaches. Screenshot your PR. Send your state ranking to that kid from the rival school who talked trash at the conference meet. Put your progression chart in your recruiting packet. The data is yours. You earned every data point with sweat. What you do with it is up to you.

Every Athlete Deserves to Be Celebrated

This is the part where we get serious for a second.

High school sports in Maine are special. They are not a pipeline to the pros. They are not a business. They are communities. They are Friday night gymnasiums packed with families. They are Saturday morning cross country races where the entire school shows up to cheer. They are hockey rinks at 6 PM on a Wednesday where the only people in the stands are parents, siblings, and one grandparent who drove 45 minutes because they never miss a game.

The kid who finishes last at the cross country meet? They still ran 3.1 miles. The team that goes 2 and 16 in hockey? Those kids still showed up to every practice. The sophomore who just started Track and Field and ran a 7:42 mile? That is their baseline, and next year it is going to be 7:15, and the year after that it is going to be under 7:00, and Analytics207 is going to track every second of that journey.

We do not just celebrate the state champions. We celebrate the grinders. The improvers. The kids who showed up when it was easier not to. The athletes who will never make a highlight reel but who made their teammates better every single day. Every one of them has a profile on this site. Every one of them has data that tells their story. Because every one of them matters.

For the Fans Who Take This Way Too Seriously

We see you. You are the one arguing in the comments section about whether Class B South is stronger than Class B North this year. You are the one who remembers final scores from 2019 regional semifinals. You are the one who has opinions about the Heal Points system that you share at Thanksgiving dinner whether anyone asks or not. You are the one who drove two hours to watch a hockey game between two teams you have no connection to because "it was going to be a good one."

We built this site for you. Argue about the Power Index with actual numbers instead of vibes. Settle the bracket debate with Schedule Depth instead of feelings. Pull up the Trophy Room to win the dinner table. Read the Karma Index to see who is overperforming and who is going to come back to earth. Every page is built for the kind of fan who reads a box score the way other people read a novel.

We respect the obsession because we share it. You are our people. Welcome home.

The Predictions (Our Nerdy Side Project)

Let us be clear about something: predictions are not why we built Analytics207. We built this platform to celebrate young athletes. The predictions? That is just our nerdy side having fun. We are data nerds at heart, and when you have this much data, building a prediction model is basically inevitable. It is like putting a basketball in front of a gym rat and expecting them not to shoot. We could not help ourselves.

Every team sport runs on a proprietary rating system we developed in house. It does not care about reputation, tradition, school size, or how many times a team has been to the Civic Center. It only cares about results. GameIQ has no feelings. It cannot be lobbied. It does not accept phone calls from angry parents.

For cross country, we built an entirely different system that evaluates 1,730 runners across 10 performance categories. For Track and Field, yet another proprietary system covering 6,200 athletes across indoor and outdoor seasons with over 52,000 individual results. Multiple sports, multiple custom built systems. Because the nerdy side does not have an off switch.

Our soccer engine runs at 89.4% accuracy. Hockey sits at 81.9%. Basketball consistently outperforms the state's official Heal Points system for tournament projections. Baseball and softball now have their own Elo engines running predictions from opening day. But here is the thing: even when GameIQ is wrong, the data underneath it is still right. The athlete profiles, the progression charts, the PRs, the team depth analysis, all of that is real, verifiable, and belongs to the athletes who earned it. That is the real product. The predictions are just dessert.

What Makes Us Different

Free vs All Access

Most of Analytics207 is free. You can browse athletes, check PRs, view meet results, read articles, see The Slate every night, check Heal Points, and dig into Schedule Depth without paying a cent. We believe the basic data should be accessible to every athlete, every parent, and every fan in the state regardless of budget.

All Access ($7.99/month) unlocks the premium tools that took hundreds of hours to build: power rankings, team depth analysis, The War Room, race projections, runner awards, season awards, the full Track and Field analytics suite, and more. One subscription covers every sport, every season, every tool. Cancel anytime. No contracts. No tricks. No surprise charges.

We are not a media corporation with a marketing budget and a sales team. We are a small team who built something we genuinely believe is useful for the Maine high school sports community. If you agree, subscribing is the single best way to keep this thing alive and growing. If you do not agree, you are welcome to keep using the free stuff and we will still appreciate you being here.