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Changelog

How the site’s methodology has improved over time, newest first. Each release covers the two halves of the pipeline: how reviews are found and matched, and how summaries are built from them.

Version numbers track the summary pipeline. The review-finding side improves continuously and rides along under each release.

v0.92June 2026

Signal-gated synthesis

Video import

  • More accurate attribution to the exact model and year. A bare mention like “the Speed” now resolves to the flagship model instead of every variant, vintage frames are no longer confused with modern ones, and ambiguous model-year references are sent to review rather than guessed.
  • Reviews that only mention a racquet in passing no longer count toward it. A racquet that appears only as a comparison or a quick aside is not attached as a review of that racquet.
  • Better at separating the retail racquet from custom and pro-shop versions, and reviews that are actually about shoes or other gear are filtered out before they can be mistaken for racquet reviews.
  • A higher bar for which reviews count. A review must make at least one specific, hands-on observation about the racquet and acknowledge a real limitation, tradeoff, fit concern, or other grounded caveat; generic praise and marketing talking points don’t qualify.
  • Cleaner transcripts site-wide, with common speech-to-text errors in racquet names, string names, and technical terms corrected across the whole library.
  • A stronger model now reads each review. It is better at spotting promotional or sponsored content that reads like a review, while borderline flags still go through human review rather than being rejected automatically.

Summary synthesis

  • Summaries no longer force a verdict onto every aspect. An aspect appears only when reviewers actually reveal a pattern: clear agreement, a genuine split, or (for power, spin, and feel) heavy discussion with no consensus. A thinly-reviewed racquet now gets a shorter, honest summary instead of a manufactured verdict on every dimension.
  • Every claim points to the reviewer’s exact words. The source panel highlights the precise sentence behind a claim rather than a paraphrase, so a summary is easy to check against what was actually said.
  • Summaries describe what a racquet does, not who it’s “for.” Audience labels like “best for advanced players” are gone; the summary sticks to behavior and leaves the fit judgment to you.
  • Standardized on our latest analysis model for consistent results across every summary.
v0.9April 2026

A rebuilt summary engine

Video import

  • Vintage frames are no longer confused with modern ones, and a stray year in a page’s footer no longer throws off which generation a review is about.
  • Racquets mentioned only as a comparison aren’t linked, and well-covered models face a higher bar before a passing mention counts.

Summary synthesis

  • Rebuilt how summaries are written, end to end, for more accurate wording and finer distinctions, like telling “stiff for a forgiving frame” apart from “stiffer than the last model,” instead of flattening both into one vague note.
  • Each review is read in full and broken into specific claims by topic (power, spin, feel, control, stability), so an observation about one quality can’t bleed into another.
  • Added a verification step that catches contradictions, duplicates, and unattributed statements before a summary is ever written.
  • Faster, lower-cost processing so the full catalog can be refreshed on a regular cadence.
v0.81March 2026

Consensus you can trust

Video import

  • Added written editorial reviews as a source alongside video reviews.

Summary synthesis

  • Summaries show how many independent reviewers back each point. Agreement across separate sources, not the raw number of videos, is what drives the summary.
  • Every claim carries a word-for-word quote you can trace back to the original review.
  • Disagreement is preserved, not averaged away. When a meaningful share of reviewers see a racquet differently, the summary says so plainly.
  • Added bias controls: sponsored and promotional content is excluded, multiple reviews from one creator count as a single voice, and subjective qualities like feel are accepted only from reviewers who actually hit with the racquet.
v0.6Early 2026

Foundations

Video import

  • Built the system that identifies exactly which racquet, and which model year, a review is about by reading the title, description, and full transcript rather than guessing from the title, with the model year resolved from evidence.
  • Added content screening so only genuine racquet reviews feed summaries; instruction videos, string reviews, vlogs, and “top 10” lists are filtered out.

Summary synthesis

  • First public version of the methodology and its neutral voice: report what reviewers found, never state a playing characteristic as fact.

This is a record of methodology changes across the whole site. For how an individual racquet’s summary is built today, see the methodology page.

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