PlayerData

PlayerData provides GPS sports performance tracking technology for athletes and teams — FIFA Quality Certified EDGE wearable trackers, a GPS-enabled Connected Ball, and indoor IMU / local-positioning systems. Its platform captures distance, speed, sprints, acceleration/deceleration and workload, and exposes a GraphQL API secured with OAuth 2.0 covering clubs, athletes, sessions, devices, metrics and reports, plus real-time GraphQL subscription events. Official Python (playerdatapy) and R (playerdatar) client libraries wrap the API. PlayerData is a Techstars portfolio company.

PlayerData is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Sports, Sports Performance, GPS Tracking, and Wearables.

The PlayerData catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

PlayerData’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, support, engineering blog, and 16 more developer resources.

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36.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 17/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 69/100 slowing saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessSelf serve

1 API 2 Agent Skills

Company Sports Sports Performance GPS Tracking WearablesAthlete MonitoringGraphQL Analytics Real-Time

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 36.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.8 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 7.6 / 17

Access Clarity 4.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 17/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 25.0 — up to +15.0 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 2.6 — up to +12.7 composite points
Contract Quality scores 51.0 — up to +12.3 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Football Technology and Sports Data (FIFA Quality Programme)	standard	18.3 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

GraphQL

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

PlayerData GraphQL API

OAuth2-secured GraphQL API for PlayerData sports performance data — clubs, athletes, sessions, devices, metrics, reports and real-time subscription events.

Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Onboard PlayerData athletes and assign devices

AGENT SKILL

Pull PlayerData session performance metrics

AGENT SKILL

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

PlayerData Real-Time Events (GraphQL Subscriptions)

Server-emitted real-time events exposed by the PlayerData GraphQL API via RootSubscription. Derived from the published GraphQL schema; each channel maps to a GraphQL subscriptio...

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Playerdata Authentication

oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Playerdata Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

AsyncAPI

AsyncAPI

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

WellKnown

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

DataModel

DataModel

Conformance

Conformance

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: playerdata
name: PlayerData
description: PlayerData provides GPS sports performance tracking technology for athletes and teams — FIFA Quality Certified
  EDGE wearable trackers, a GPS-enabled Connected Ball, and indoor IMU / local-positioning systems. Its platform captures
  distance, speed, sprints, acceleration/deceleration and workload, and exposes a GraphQL API secured with OAuth 2.0 covering
  clubs, athletes, sessions, devices, metrics and reports, plus real-time GraphQL subscription events. Official Python (playerdatapy)
  and R (playerdatar) client libraries wrap the API. PlayerData is a Techstars portfolio company.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/playerdata/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- techstars
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 11
  pass: local-v1
tags:
- Company
- Sports
- Sports Performance
- GPS Tracking
- Wearables
- Athlete Monitoring
- GraphQL
- Analytics
- Real-Time
image: https://www.playerdata.com/favicon.ico
apis:
- name: PlayerData GraphQL API
  description: OAuth2-secured GraphQL API for PlayerData sports performance data — clubs, athletes, sessions, devices, metrics,
    reports and real-time subscription events.
  humanURL: https://github.com/PlayerData/playerdatapy
  baseURL: https://app.playerdata.co.uk/api/graphql
  properties:
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/playerdata-schema.graphql
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/playerdata-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/playerdata-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.playerdata.com/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/playerdata-authentication.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/playerdata-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/playerdata-packages.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/playerdata-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/playerdata-data-model.yml
- type: AsyncAPI
  url: asyncapi/playerdata-events-asyncapi.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/playerdata-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/playerdata-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/playerdata-conformance.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/playerdata-well-known.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://github.com/PlayerData/playerdatapy/blob/main/docs/auth.md
- type: APIReference
  url: graphql/playerdata-schema.graphql
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/PlayerData
- type: Support
  url: https://support.playerdata.com/knowledge
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.playerdata.com/blog
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.playerdata.com/
- type: Login
  url: https://app.playerdata.co.uk/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.playerdata.com/en-gb/privacy-policy-iframe

PlayerData API — frequently asked questions

Does PlayerData have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from PlayerData, including PlayerData GraphQL API.

How do I authenticate with the PlayerData API?

PlayerData uses bearer-token authentication (oauth2 · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Playerdata Authentication.

Is the PlayerData API ready for AI agents?

PlayerData has a Kin Score of 36.4 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 17.4 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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