How Talking Points is written
Talking Points is our preview before each round of European football and our round-up after it. This page says who answers for it, where the facts come from, how we use AI, and what happens when we get something wrong.
Updated 7 November 2026
Who writes it
Talking Points is run by the PrediSportsHQ editor, who also runs the Serie A prediction league this site grew out of and predicts every match in it before kick-off, against the same AI whose picks you can see here, so the previews come from someone with points riding on the same games as you.
We cover six competitions every week: the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and the Champions League. A preview goes out before the games, usually on a Friday for the weekend and on a Tuesday in a Champions League week, and a round-up follows once the results are in.
Where the facts come from
- Fixtures, results and tables come from the football data feed that scores every league on this site, so a score in a round-up is the same score your league was marked on.
- Everything else (scorers, injuries, suspensions, team news, managers' comments) comes from published reports: BBC Sport, The Guardian, Sky Sports, ESPN, The Athletic, Reuters, AP, and the clubs' and competitions' own sites.
- A fact goes in only if a report states it. Anything surprising, like a sacking or a long injury, needs two reports. If we can't stand it up, it comes out.
- From November 2026 each piece ends with a linked list of the reports it relies on. We write our own sentences and never quote more than a few words of anyone else's.
How we use AI
Each piece starts as a draft written by an AI model from our football data and the reports above, together with a list of every fact it took from them. A second check then goes through the piece before it is published: every score, table position and kick-off time against our football data, and the facts the piece leans on most against dated reports from that week. Anything that can't be confirmed comes out. The editor reads the pieces and corrects anything we've got wrong.
The AI's score predictions are a separate thing. They're on the AI predictions pages, with its record for the season, misses included.
No betting
Talking Points is written for people who play prediction leagues with their friends. It never gives odds, tips or betting advice, and PrediSportsHQ has no link to any bookmaker.
Corrections
If we've got something wrong, email predisportshq@gmail.com or use the contact page. We fix it, and a dated note at the end of the piece says what changed.