Primary sources only
Every rule on this site is read in the text that makes it the rule:
- a state statute, on the legislature's own site, with the act that last amended it;
- a high school association's current handbook or bylaws;
- the NCAA Division I Manual, as published in the NCAA's own legislative database;
- a school's own NIL policy or student-athlete handbook;
- a court's order or docket, a bill's text and status from Congress, or an agency's own page.
Trackers, law-firm notes, news stories and free statute mirrors are used only to find where to look. They are never the source, because they fall behind: one free mirror still showed a Colorado rule two years after the legislature repealed it.
Two reads before anything goes up
A page starts as a research draft written from the primary text, with the section or bylaw number beside each fact. A second, separate check then reads every fact again against the source. Anything it can't confirm is taken out or held until it can be; a page that fails waits.
What the dates mean
Each page shows one date: the day it was checked or last changed. The same date is in the page's data for search engines, and a check run before every deploy stops a page whose dates disagree. State, school and high school pages also show a next check date. Rules can change mid-year, so the date is part of the answer.
Changes and corrections, in the open
Every rule change this site records goes on the updates page with the date it took effect, the primary source and the pages it changed. When this site had something wrong, the fix is listed there too, labelled Correction, and the page it fixed shows it at the top. There is also a weekly scan, every Monday, of state laws, association rules, the NCAA and the College Sports Commission, the courts and Congress.
What this site does not publish
- Pay for any one athlete, or a figure that lets a reader work it out.
- Valuations or rankings of athletes.
- News reposted from other outlets. A change is written up from the primary text, with a link to the outlet that reported it and at most a sentence quoted.
Who writes it
The pages are written by Christopher Horne, who builds Leave, and published by Leave Your Agent Inc. Leave is software: it is not an athlete agent and does not negotiate, represent or arrange deals. These pages are information, not legal advice. The data is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0, with credit to Leave Your Agent, from the Download buttons on every table.
Report an error
If something on a page is wrong or out of date, email the page's address and what you found. It is read against the primary source and, if it holds up, fixed and listed on the updates page.