Terms of Use

1. Who we are

Kodo Analytics (“Kodo Analytics,” “Kodo,” “we,” “us”) operates kodoanalytics.com, Kodo Baseball (baseball.kodoanalytics.com), Kodo Hockey (hockey.kodoanalytics.com) and the Kodo app: independent fantasy sports analytics tools.

2. Accounts

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Services. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you need a parent or guardian’s permission. Some features, including connecting a fantasy league, saving preferences and posting comments, require an account. You are responsible for the activity on your account and for keeping your sign-in and any connected league credentials secure, and you agree to give us accurate information when asked for it (for example, a display name for comments).

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or the Community Guidelines, or that we reasonably believe is being used for abuse, fraud or to harm the Services or other users.

3. Our content

Our projections, rankings, ratings, start odds, keeper and dynasty values, models, articles, charts, graphics, tools, software and the way the Services are put together are owned by Kodo Analytics or licensed to us, and are protected by copyright and other laws. Game statistics themselves are facts and belong to no one; our analysis of them is ours.

4. What you may do

• Use the Services for your own personal, non-commercial fantasy baseball and hockey, including in your own leagues.
• Share our cards, charts and graphics, and quote a line or two of an article, on social media, forums and league chats, as long as you credit Kodo and, where you can, link back to the page. We like it when you do.
• Link to any public page.

5. What you may not do

• Scrape, crawl, bulk download or systematically copy content or data from the Services, or access our APIs with bots, scripts or other automated means, except search engines indexing public pages under our robots.txt.
• Republish our projections, rankings, values or other data as a list, table, database or feed, or use them to build or improve a product or service that competes with the Services.
• Sell, rent, sublicense or otherwise commercially exploit any part of the Services or their content without our written permission.
• Use content or data from the Services to train, fine-tune or evaluate artificial intelligence or machine learning models.
• Get around rate limits, access controls or security, interfere with the Services, or overload them.
• Impersonate anyone, misrepresent your affiliation with Kodo, or use the Services for anything unlawful.

If you want to use our data in a way these terms do not allow, ask us at hello@kodoanalytics.com. We are often happy to say yes.

6. Other people's data and trademarks

Some information on the Services comes from third parties, such as league statistics, draft position data and contract data, and is credited where it appears. It remains theirs and may carry their own terms. Kodo is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the NHL, the NHLPA, MLB, the MLBPA, their teams, or Yahoo, ESPN or Fantrax. Team names, logos and other marks belong to their owners and are used only to identify them.

7. League connections

When you connect a Yahoo, ESPN or Fantrax league, we read your league’s settings, rosters and results to personalise the Services. League connections are read-only: we never make lineup changes, add or drop players, trade, or change anything in your league. You can disconnect a league at any time. Your use of those platforms is governed by their own terms. How we handle league data, including Yahoo’s rules on storing it, is described in the Privacy Policy.

8. Comments and other content you post

You keep ownership; we get a license to show it

If you post a comment or other content on the Services, you keep ownership of what you write. By posting, you grant Kodo Analytics a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, display, reproduce and distribute that content on and through the Services (for example, showing your comment on a player’s profile to other readers), for as long as the content remains posted and as reasonably needed afterward for backups, legal compliance and dispute resolution.

You confirm that you have the right to post what you submit, and that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights. The same license covers feedback, survey answers and anything else you send us, and ideas or suggestions you send can be used freely without obligation to you.

Prohibited content

You agree not to post content that:

• harasses, threatens, or is abusive toward another person or group;
• is hateful, discriminatory, or targets someone’s identity;
• is sexual in nature, or sexualizes a real person, including a player;
• shares someone else’s private information without their consent (doxxing) - an address, phone number, workplace or similar;
• is spam, an advertisement, or promotes a product, service or channel;
• promotes or solicits betting tips, “guaranteed” picks, or sportsbook referrals;
• contains a link, unless we have said links are allowed in a specific feature;
• impersonates another person, team or organization; or
• is otherwise unlawful.

Blunt opinions and trash talk about a player’s on-ice or on-field performance, their fantasy value, or a team’s decisions are welcome and are not, by themselves, a violation of this section.

AI-assisted moderation and human review

Comments are screened by an automated system (currently Anthropic’s Claude) before they are shown to other readers, and by local filters for obvious spam or prohibited language. The automated system may approve a comment, hold it for the operator to review, or decline to post it. A comment that is held or declined is reviewed by a person. We may also act on a comment after it is posted, including in response to a report from another reader (see Reporting and blocking below).

Automated moderation is not perfect. A comment that should have been allowed may be held or declined, and a comment that should have been held may briefly be visible before a report or review catches it. If you believe a decision about your comment was wrong, you can contact us at hello@kodoanalytics.com.

Removal and suspension

We may remove, hide or decline to post any content, and may suspend or close the account that posted it, at our discretion, including for breaking these terms or the Community Guidelines. We try to tell you the reason when a comment of yours is declined, but we are not required to give advance notice before removing content or suspending access.

Reporting and blocking other users

You can report a comment you think breaks these terms, and you can block another commenter so you no longer see their comments. A comment that receives enough reports is automatically held for operator review. Blocking is a personal preference setting; it does not notify the person you blocked and does not remove their comment for anyone else.

Deleting your own comments

You can delete a comment you posted at any time. A deleted comment is removed from the comment list; we may keep a record of it internally for moderation, abuse-prevention and legal purposes.

9. Newsletters and notifications

If you subscribe or turn on notifications, we will send you the emails and alerts you asked for. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and you can change notifications in your settings.

10. Not advice

Everything on the Services is for entertainment and informational purposes. Projections, odds, rankings and values are estimates based on models and data that can be wrong, late or incomplete. Nothing on the Services, including comments posted by other users, is betting, financial or professional advice. You are responsible for your own decisions, and for following the laws that apply to you, including any age or location restrictions on sports betting or daily fantasy sports.

11. Disclaimers

The Services, including projections, statistics, articles and any content posted by other users, are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, to the extent the law allows. We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any statistic, projection or comment is accurate or complete. We are not responsible for content posted by other users and do not endorse it.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Kodo Analytics and its operator will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, winnings, data or goodwill, arising from your use of the Services or any content posted on them, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Services is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose and CAD $100. Nothing in these terms limits any rights you have that cannot be limited by law.

13. Indemnity

You agree to compensate Kodo Analytics for claims, losses and reasonable costs arising from your breach of these terms or your misuse of the Services.

14. Ending access

You can stop using the Services at any time. We may suspend or end access, including blocking automated traffic, if you break these terms or put the Services at risk. Sections 3, 5, 6 and 10 to 18 continue to apply after access ends.

15. Changes to the Services and these terms

We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of the Services at any time. We may update these terms from time to time; when we do, we will change the “Last updated” date above, and for significant changes we will give notice on the Services or by email. Continuing to use the Services after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms.

16. Privacy

How we collect, use and share your information is explained in our Privacy Policy, which is part of these terms.

17. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, without regard to conflict of law rules. You and Kodo Analytics agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Ontario, except where the law of the place you live gives you the right to bring a claim there.

18. Contact

Questions about these terms, or requests to use our content? Email hello@kodoanalytics.com. See also Support and the Community Guidelines.