Look! We've added a TON of new documents to the Extra Points Library

Good morning friends, it’s Matt Brown from Extra Points.

Normally, I send these out about once a month. But we’ve been so busy adding new stuff to the Extra Points Library, and we’re gonna keep adding stuff at this rapid clip, that I wanted to send you an update a little earlier.

We have a lot more FY25 budget data, especially in D1

Probably our most used dataset comes from the MFRS reports each school submits to the NCAA. The reports for Fiscal Year 25 (FY25) should have been finalized about a month ago, and we’re frantically trying to obtain and categorize that data for all of you.

As of this morning, we’ve uploaded over 170 MFRS reports since Janurary 15, with the vast majority of those coming from D1. That dataset includes most of the P4, but also dozens of other institutions, from East Texas A&M to NJIT, Nicholls State to Arkansas State, Eastern Washington to Longwood, and more.

Unlike last year, we now have the technological capacity to turn that raw data into sortable forms much faster. So instead of just downloading the raw PDF of the report, you can hop into the Finances Tab and browse not just by Total Operating Revenues/Expenses, by sport, by conference, by revenue type, and more.

So here’s an example. Here’s who reported spending the most on Team Travel in the Big Ten, based on the data we have so far:

Not every conference is as complete as the Big Ten, but the vast majority of D1 leagues, have enough data right now to begin to draw conclusions. Check it out!

Our table data is being updated multiple times a week. Check it out…it might already have the info you’re looking for!

We’re also adding way more coach and vendor contracts

Another area of focus for Library right now is being as current and comprehensive as possible with the rest of our non-budget related data. That means we’re uploading coach contract extensions, new contracts, major vendor deals and more, across every NCAA-sponsored sport, all over D-I.

Over the last few weeks, that means we’ve added secondary athletic equipment contracts (particularly for baseball and hockey), ticketing partnership contracts, lots more travel partnerships, updated athletic apparel contracts, pouring rights, and more. We’re also adding dozens of new coaching contracts, especially in soccer, tennis, golf and track.

The majority (but by no means exclusively) of these new PDFs come from mid and low-major institutions, the type of places that might be overlooked a bit. Anybody who studies, buys or sells to college athletics would benefit poking around our new uploads.

And we’re also digging deeper into D-II:

Last year, we didn’t offer the finance table functionality for D-II athletic department budgets. While that feature isn’t open for our D-II schools yet, it is on our product development roadmap, and something we expect to be able to offer very soon.

In the meantime, we’ve sent out over a hundred document requests to D-II institutions, and plan to file even more this week. Those requests include the itemized budgets, as well as the same coach, athletic director and major vendor deals we look to categorize across D-I.

You can browse those uploaded documents today. As our D-I upload volume will likely slow down over the coming weeks, expect to see substantially more documents added to our D-II offerings.

Because more folks use Extra Points Library for D-I data, and because it’s generally a little easier to FOIA (and get responses quickly) from D-I, our immediate focus is on building and supporting data from those schools. But we are working to grow our data offerings in D-II, and folks looking for benchmarking, vendor data and research will find useful information in the Library.

We’ve also added more to the Branch Library!

For folks who are just regular ol’ fans, undergraduates, reporter or folks on a major budget, I understand that the full Extra Points Library may be outside your price range. But anybody with a Premium Extra Points newsletter subscription (just nine bucks a month!) can browse the Branch Library, a specifically curated group of documents.

Because we’ve added so many new docs to our total Library, I’ve also added several new PDFs to the branch library. That includes FY25 MFRS reports from D1 and D-II, coach contracts in everything from Rodeo to Skiing to Basketball, a few new apparel contracts, and more.

You can always access the Branch Library from the Extra Points homepage:

So what’s next?

A few things to watch for over the rest of the month:

• Our #1 priority right now is to get as many D-I MFRS reports uploaded and tabulated as quickly as possible. If you have MFRS reports that we don’t have right now, I’d love to trade you PDFs / give you free or discounted Library access in exchange. We want to have enough data to be able to write more conclsuively about sport trends in the next week or so. So if your school isn’t listed (and you can’t leak it to us), hang tight! We’re working on this first.

• After our D-I data is in a good place, we’ll double-down on filling gaps in our D-II data, including allowing users to sort D-II MFRS data the same way we do with D-I institutions.

• As our database grows, we’re thinking a LOT about quality of life improvements, from improving search speed, adding data extraction features, and making it easier to compare and unify data across document types. We’re making some of these improvements ad hoc, and others will drop once we make some massive Library upgrades a little later this year.

Thanks for reading! I’m very proud of Extra Points Library, and I really want it to be useful, whether you work in college sports, study college sports, write about college sports, or just love college sports. If you have ideas about how we can do a better job, please, I’m all ears.

I’ll drop you all another note once we have more upgrades ready.

Until next time,

Matt