Editorial Methodology
How Blaze Sports Intel identifies stories, monitors conversation across platforms, validates claims before publishing, and prioritizes content. The process behind the product.
Topic Monitoring
Blaze Sports Intel tracks conversation across college baseball media and fan communities using keyword packs organized by topic. Monitoring serves two purposes: identifying stories the audience cares about, and catching claims that need fact-checking before Blaze Sports Intel amplifies them.
Keyword Packs
CWS, regionals, super regionals, RPI, transfer portal, pitching staff, weekend series
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Sentiment Classification
Genuine enthusiasm around a topic — breakout player, upset win, unexpected storyline
Fan/media dissatisfaction — coverage gap, data error, poor decision by a program
Questions being asked that nobody has answered yet — content opportunity
Claims being challenged — fact-checking opportunity or methodology validation
High volume, low signal — hot takes, rage bait, engagement farming. Filtered out.
Platform Monitoring
Beat writers, team accounts, analytics community. Primary signal source for breaking news and sourced reaction.
College baseball communities and team forums. Longer-form discussion surfaces questions Blaze Sports Intel can answer with data.
Highlight clips and short-form analysis. Monitored for viral moments and fan sentiment, not treated as factual sources.
Claim Validation
Before Blaze Sports Intel publishes a statistical claim or analytical finding, it goes through a three-step validation: (1) verify the underlying data against official sources, (2) confirm the methodology is sound and the comparison is fair, (3) check whether the conclusion follows from the evidence. If any step fails, the claim gets reframed or cut. Blaze Sports Intel doesn't publish stats it can't source.
Austin Humphrey. (2026, February 17). Blaze Sports Intel Editorial Methodology. Blaze Sports Intel. https://blazesportsintel.com/why-bsi/methodology