About Our Data

Families spend thousands of dollars per year on training, tournament fees, travel, and gear. After the tournament? The brackets disappear. The results get buried. There's no place to see your child's record, no way to research the competition, no tool to help you decide where to compete next.

Jits.gg is the missing data layer — the infrastructure that every sport has but BJJ never built.

Everyone benefits. Athletes get the recognition they've earned. Parents make informed decisions. Academies benchmark their programs. Tournament organizations get more visibility and more registrations. The sport grows through transparency.

MaxPreps tracks high school athletes across football, basketball, wrestling, and track — and has for decades. Parents spending thousands per year on travel baseball can look up every stat. Youth wrestlers have win-loss records, seedings, and rankings available to anyone with an internet connection.

But in youth BJJ — a sport where families invest just as much in training, tournament fees, travel, and gear — that infrastructure doesn't exist. These athletes deserve the same recognition. These families deserve the same transparency.

Tournament organizations already publish results publicly. Jits.gg brings authority and accountability to a sport that's earned it.

No account is needed to appear on Jits.gg or to use the site. Tournament data exists because organizations published it, not because anyone signed up.

Public tournament results from a growing list of organizations — JJWL, IBJJF, AGF, NAGA, Grappling Industries, Newbreed, and more being added regularly.

This data is published on public-facing websites by the tournament organizations themselves. Not behind paywalls. Not from private databases. Not from any restricted system.

Our goal is to drive traffic back to these organizations. We link to their events, we promote their tournaments, we grow the sport together. More visibility for athletes means more registrations for orgs.

On top of the public results we aggregate, Jits.gg builds original analytics that don't exist anywhere in the source material:

• Jits Ratings — a proprietary competitive intelligence engine purpose-built for BJJ. Learn how it works
• DVI (Dominance-Versatility Index) — measuring competitive dominance relative to opposition quality
• xMedal — expected medal probability based on bracket strength and historical performance
• Segment Benchmarks — performance analysis across Gi, NoGi, age divisions, and weight classes
• Tier Classifications — from Beginner to S-Tier, ranking every rated fighter against the full competitive field

This is our original intellectual contribution — transformative value built on public facts. None of this exists in any tournament organization's data.

The legal foundation for what Jits.gg does is well-established and supported by decades of precedent:

• First Amendment. Reporting on public sporting events is protected speech. Sports statistics — names, results, placements — are factual records of public events, and publishing them is constitutionally protected.
• Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone (1991). The Supreme Court held that facts are not copyrightable. Competition results are facts. No tournament organization owns the fact that a competitor won or lost a match.
• Fair Use (17 U.S.C. § 107). Jits.gg creates original analytics, ratings, and performance metrics that are transformative — they don't reproduce source material, they build something entirely new from public facts.
• hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn (9th Cir., 2022). The Ninth Circuit held that collecting publicly available data — not behind authentication barriers — does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Tournament results are published openly on the internet without login requirements.
• Industry standard. This is standard practice across all professional and amateur sports analytics. ESPN, MaxPreps, FloWrestling, TrackWrestling, and hundreds of other platforms aggregate and display public competition data. Jits.gg follows the same model.

Jits.gg invests heavily in data quality because trust is the product. Our pipeline includes:

• Identity resolution — matching the same athlete across different tournaments and organizations, even when names vary
• Academy linking — connecting athletes to the correct academy even when team names differ across organizations
• Error correction — investigating and correcting reported inaccuracies as fast as we can

This is genuinely hard work. Thousands of athletes compete across dozens of organizations with inconsistent naming conventions, and we're building the identity layer from scratch. We won't always get it right on the first pass, but we are committed to getting it right — and we fix errors fast because accuracy is the entire point.

If you spot something wrong, submit a correction. We take every report seriously.

Jits.gg does not collect data from children — it displays data published by tournament organizations. These are public results of public sporting events, published by the organizations that ran them.

No account is needed to appear on the site. Account creation is entirely optional and uses Google OAuth, which requires users to be at least 13 years old per Google's own policies. Tournament data exists independently of any user account.

Corrections: If any data on Jits.gg is inaccurate, let us know or email support@jits.gg. We fix errors fast because accuracy is the entire product. Wrong result, misattributed match, incorrectly linked profile — tell us and we'll get it sorted.

Removal: Jits.gg does not remove publicly available competition data. These are public records of public sporting events — the same kind of data that exists for every other youth sport in America. The sport needs this data to exist. Athletes deserve the recognition they've earned. Families deserve the transparency to make informed decisions. Academies deserve the ability to benchmark their programs. Removing an athlete's record doesn't protect them — it erases the recognition they've earned.

We understand that data about minors is sensitive, and we approach every conversation about it with care. But our position is clear: public competition records belong in the public record. That's how every sport works, and it's how BJJ should work too.

Questions? support@jits.gg