Release Notes: 1 April 2026
Three things shipped this week. All of them are about seeing more of the data before you commit to a bet.
SGM search now shows active roster only
If you've used the SGM player search you'll know it could get noisy. It was pulling in every player we've ever tracked, including blokes who retired years ago or got delisted in the off-season. Not great when you're trying to build a same-game multi quickly.
That's cleaned up now. The SGM autocomplete only returns players on an active 2026 roster. You type a name, you see players who are actually playing this season, and nothing else.
Singles search still has everyone. If you want to look up a historical player or dig into old stats, that's the place for it. This change just makes the SGM picker faster and less cluttered when you're building legs.
Career averages
There's now a collapsible year-by-year breakdown of season averages sitting right under a player's name. Select a player and you can immediately see their average disposals, goals, marks, and tackles for every season they've played.
The reason this matters is data quality. You want clean, relevant data in your search window. If a player averaged 18 disposals for three seasons and then jumped to 25 after a role change, including those older years is going to drag your numbers down and make the hit rate look worse than it should. Career averages let you see that instantly and set your From Season accordingly.
It also shows you how long a player has been at their current club. If someone moved teams two seasons ago, you might want to start your search window from there because their role and usage could be completely different.
Game logs
After you run any search, single or SGM, you can now expand the full game log and see every game that was included in the result. Every row shows the date, opponent, and the stats that matched your search.
This is honestly one of the more useful things we've added. You get a percentage from a search, but now you can look at the actual games behind that number and spot things worth chasing.
Real example. Say you search 20+ disposals and it comes back at 65%. You open the game log and notice that every game where the player cleared 20 was actually 25 or higher. There's nothing in the 20, 21, 22 range. That tells you the player either goes big or falls short, and there might be value extending to 25+ for better odds. You'd never see that from the percentage alone.
Get in the habit of scanning the logs after every search. You'll find angles you didn't think to look for.
What's next
We're adding handballs, kicks, clearances, and hitouts to all search modes. More stats means more markets you can check before placing.
Full list of what's planned on the Feature Roadmap.
About the author
Danny Page
Founder & Data Specialist, StatChecker.app
Founder of StatChecker.app. Former co-founder of Black Swan Bets (profitable NBA, EPL & UFC tipping). MBA-qualified Data Specialist. Former professional NBA player prop bettor.
- Co-founded Black Swan Bets — profitable sports tipping across NBA, EPL & UFC
- Built internal research automation and data models at Black Swan Bets
- 5+ years professional sports prop betting (NBA)
- MBA — with studies in data, probability, and databases
- Coached basketball at NBL1 & Basketball New Zealand junior levels
- Began analysing sports data for an NZNBL coaching staff in high school
- Currently working in EdTech as a Data Specialist
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