Ratings & rankings
Overall, all-margin and no-margin ratings and ranks, strength of schedule, records against top tiers and four weeks of rank history.
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The Stats Orb API
Everything behind the ratings pages — team ratings, strength of schedule, rank history, projected standings, game-by-game odds and full final-record distributions — as clean JSON for the NFL, college football, men's college basketball, the NBA and the NHL.
Projections
Most likely final records, the chance of finishing within one game, projected standings and the full probability distribution of final records.
Game odds
Every game with scores, ranks, expected favorite and spread, win probabilities and how far the result deviated from expectation.
A request, start to finish
curl https://www.statsorb.com/api/v1/leagues/nfl/seasons/2026/ratings \
-H "Authorization: Bearer so_XXXXXXXX_your-secret-key"{
"data": [
{
"teamId": 12,
"team": "…",
"rank": { "thisWeek": 1, "lastWeek": 4, … },
"record": { "wins": 5, "losses": 0, "ties": 0 },
"rating": 57.01,
"strengthOfSchedule": { "value": 50.18, "rank": 18 },
"projection": { "text": "12-5-0", "chanceWithinOneGame": 0.51, … }
}, …
],
"meta": { "league": "nfl", "season": 2026, "attribution": "Data: Stats Orb (statsorb.com)" }
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