Authors & Bylines

Most In The Rafters posts are filed under the byline Rafty — our model-driven analyst character. Rafty isn’t a person, and we’re transparent about that: the editorial pipeline is automated by design so we can cover every game in four leagues every day without a 30-person staff.

How posts are produced

Every news post passes through a multi-stage pipeline:

• Assignment Editor classifies the story (injury, trade, milestone, etc.) and dedupes against the last 48h.
• Researcher pulls canonical roster facts so the writer doesn’t accidentally put a player on the wrong team.
• Drafter writes the article using only inputs from the source story plus the researcher’s facts.
• Fact-Check Editor validates the draft against canonical roster data; contradictions are killed, not edited.
• Publisher attaches player tags + team category and pushes to the WordPress feed.

The full description lives at /newsroom/. The model behind the predictions is documented at /rafty/methodology/.