Research before writing
Questions begin with a defined topic and a public reference. Official league directories, rulebooks, competition pages, and established reference works are preferred for facts that can change or be interpreted differently.
How SportNerdia researches and reviews sports quizzes
The SportNerdia Editorial Team builds each round for people who want a fair challenge, a clear answer, and enough context to understand a miss. This policy explains the checks that happen before a quiz is published or materially updated.
Responsibility
One team owns every published answer
SportNerdia uses a team byline because research, question writing, answer testing, and corrections are shared responsibilities. The byline does not claim league affiliation or professional sports credentials. It identifies the people operating this independent, fan-made site and taking responsibility for its published work.
Answers before distractors
The canonical answer is verified before the wrong choices are written. Distractors must be plausible enough to make a quiz interesting without creating a second defensible answer.
Play-test before publishing
Every multiple-choice answer must score correctly, every typed variant must normalize safely, and every explanation must match the question that appeared in the round.
Review dates mean review
A displayed review date is changed only after the page, question set, accepted answers, explanations, or sources receive a substantive editorial check. Routine deployments do not reset it.
Evidence
How sources appear
Each public quiz identifies its reference set, and answer reviews link to a primary source where one is available. A source supports the factual claim; it does not replace SportNerdia's responsibility to phrase the question clearly and keep the answer current.
Preferred references
Official league, team, rules, and tournament pages come first. Broad reference works are used for stable terminology or cross-sport context when an official source is not the clearest public explanation.
Changing facts
League size, team names, venues, competition formats, and award records can change. Those facts receive a new review before an update is presented as current.
Disputed wording
If two sources use different conventions, the prompt states the relevant league, competition, season, or rule context. Ambiguous questions are rewritten or removed rather than defended after the fact.
Corrections
What happens when a reader spots a problem
Send the page URL, the question, and a supporting reference to [email protected]. The editorial team checks the report against the current wording and source. Confirmed errors are corrected in the quiz data, accepted-answer variants, explanation, and review date as needed.
Tools and automation
Automation assists production; it does not approve facts
Software helps enforce answer formats, find duplicated prompts, detect repeated copy, test scoring, and flag missing citations. Automated or AI-assisted drafts are not treated as reviewed facts. A published question still requires a source, a manual wording check, a verified answer, and a successful play-test.