Open IDs you can trust across provider
Sports Data Exchange assigns persistent IDs to core sports entities, so your data stays aligned across systems, even when names and structures change.
Sports Data Exchange
The open standard for global sports data identity, mapping, and sharing.
Multi-API workflows
If you’ve integrated more than one sports data source, you’ve seen the pattern:
A team, player, competition, or event can have a different identifier at every provider. Every new integration becomes a custom mapping exercise. When rosters change, competitions evolve, or naming conventions shift, those mappings break and create silent data quality issues downstream. The cost is real: engineering time goes into ID mapping instead of product, and switching providers often means rebuilding pipelines from scratch.
❌ Without SDX
● Build ID mapping tables
● Write fuzzy matching algorithms
● Handle name conflicts
● Manual review for edge cases
● Maintain as providers change
✅ With SDX
● Download SDX catalog
● Partner mappings for exact matches
● Write sdx_id to your table
● All automatic via cron
What Sports Data Exchange delivers
Map everything locally in minutes
Use one CLI tool to sync the SDX catalog, match your records locally, and attach SDX IDs to your existing data.
Share partner mappings with full control
Publish and consume encrypted mapping catalogs. Share openly or privately with keys, so partners integrate faster while you keep control of data and IP.
How SDX works
Most sports data workflows end up maintaining multiple mapping tables and manual review processes. SDX is designed to reduce that effort with a repeatable workflow:
● Sync the SDX catalog locally
● Sync partner mappings (optional)
● Match your rows and write SDX IDs to your database
● Resolve remaining IDs using supported provider mappings
The important part is that SDX is built so the heavy lifting happens locally, inside your environment.
Who is Sports Data Exchange for?
Sports Data Exchange is a fit if you:
● Integrate multiple sports data sources or plan to change providers
● Share sports data with partners, clients, or suppliers
● Maintain internal identity tables
● Want a neutral, persistent way to reference sports entities across systems
Who’s behind SDX?
Sports Data Exchange is launched as its own product, with Enetpulse and SportsData.IO supporting the delivery and the ecosystem rollout. If you’re already a client, SDX is a natural layer to add when identity and mapping become a bottleneck.
Frequently asked questions
Sports Data Exchange is an open standard for sports data identity, mapping, and sharing. It provides persistent IDs for core sports entities (events, competitions, participants, venues), plus tooling to map your data to those IDs and securely share mappings with partners.
It removes the recurring pain of mismatched identifiers across sports data providers and internal databases. SDX reduces custom mapping work, helps prevent broken mappings as sports change, and makes it easier to switch providers or collaborate with partners.
You use the SDX mapping tool (CLI). It downloads the SDX entity catalog locally and matches your database rows to SDX IDs using exact matching first and fuzzy matching when needed. It then writes the SDX IDs directly into your tables.
SDX is designed for organizations that integrate or exchange sports data across multiple systems, data providers, platforms, partners, and internal products, where identity mismatches lead to ongoing engineering and data-quality costs.
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