The live data layer pro sports runs on
Front-office decision tools. Agent tools. Fan-facing data products. We build sports software where the rosters are current, the contract math matches the CBA, and nothing is ever made up — and we proved it by shipping a working NBA cap terminal, free and live.
CapDesk. — a Bloomberg terminal for the salary cap
We didn't write a deck about what we could build for pro sports — we built it. CapDesk is a free, live NBA roster & cap terminal: real rosters, verified contracts, a CBA-accurate rules engine, and a multi-source news wire that keeps itself current. Every screenshot below is the actual product.
Live salary-cap sheets for all 30 teams
Every roster live from ESPN, verified 2026-27 contract figures curated from Basketball-Reference, and team payroll plotted against the real cap, tax, and both apron lines. Where a figure can't be verified, it shows a dash — never a stale or invented number.
- 30-team selector — rosters refresh live, so a traded player never lingers
- Room-to-tax / room-to-apron computed from verified contracts only
- Live per-player season stats synced from ESPN
A CBA-accurate trade-legality engine
Build a two-team what-if and get a verdict with plain-English reasons: salary-matching bands, taxpayer limits, first-apron 110% rules, and the second-apron aggregation ban. The engine is golden-tested against published worked examples from three real CBA seasons.
- Legal / illegal verdicts with the exact rule that fired
- Pre- and post-trade cap position for both teams
- Cap-space absorption, hard-cap triggers, apron restrictions modeled
One live wire from every source that matters
ESPN, Hoops Rumors, RealGM's wiretap, and CBS Sports merged, de-duplicated, and auto-tagged into trades, signings, injuries, and rumors — refreshed every 15 minutes. Plus a public Instagram buzz panel ranking player momentum by real engagement.
- 4 sources, one de-duplicated feed with type filters
- Auto-refreshed on a 15-minute cron — no manual reloads
- Public-account social buzz, ranked by recent engagement
Trade packages both front offices would take
Matches salary-dump teams over the tax line with cap-room teams that can absorb, then builds packages the legality engine certifies — and explains what each side gets out of it.
- Scans all 30 cap situations for complementary needs
- Every suggestion passes the same CBA legality engine
- Explains the benefit to both sides, not just one
Statistically-equivalent players, on your budget
A transparent similarity model (z-score weighted across the box score) finds the players who produce like your target — with budget-fit flags so you can see who delivers the same profile for a fraction of the cap hit.
- Transparent math — no black-box 'AI score'
- Budget-fit flags against your real cap room
- Live stats, so the comps stay current
Always current. Never invented.
Sports data products live or die on trust. One phantom player on a cap sheet and the tool is dead to a front office. So we engineered accuracy as infrastructure, not a promise.
Multi-source reconciliation
Rosters are cross-checked against the live transaction wire. When a credible trade report conflicts with a static feed, CapDesk moves the player — catching deals that cached datasets miss.
Verified or marked — never invented
Contract figures come from verifiable public sources. Anything unverified renders as a dash. No reconstructed salaries, no guessed numbers, and the methodology is published in the app.
Self-updating infrastructure
Scheduled jobs refresh news every 15 minutes and league data every 6 hours into a consistent edge cache — so the tool is current at 7am on trade-deadline day without anyone touching it.
Fans, agents, and front offices
The same live-data core powers three very different products. We've built versions of all three.
Free tools with data that's actually right
Cap sheets, trade machines, and live wires fans can trust — the difference between a toy and a tool is whether the roster is current and the math matches the CBA.
- Always-current rosters
- Real contract figures
- Trade ideas that would actually be legal
Your book of business, live
My Book gives an agent a single-client command view: dossier, verified contract status, a live contract clock counting down extension windows with alert states, and max-extension math against market projections.
- Contract clocks with 90/30/7-day alerts
- Extension math, estimate-labeled
- Every team ranked by how they could actually acquire your client
Cap, trade, and roster truth on demand
The same engine that powers CapDesk — apron-aware legality checks, league-wide cap positions, and package finders — built into your workflow instead of a spreadsheet that's wrong by Thursday.
- CBA rules engine, golden-tested
- League-wide cap awareness
- Decision tools, not dashboards
Have a team, an agency, or a fan product in mind?
CapDesk went from idea to live, self-updating terminal in days — the same build speed we bring to every engagement. Tell us what your organization needs to see, and we'll show you it working.