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AI Visibility Scorecard
Sports-Reference.com
ballref.com · Sports & Recreation
Borderline visible. AI bots can crawl Sports-Reference.com, but the structured-data signals are thin - you are at real risk of being skipped when buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity for a recommendation.
Monitoring for AI engine activity
In the Engagemii AEO index
#139,677 of 180,034 in Sports & Recreation for AI visibility
3.6
/10
AEO Score
About Sports-Reference.com
from our crawl and measurement
Sports-Reference.com works in Sports & Recreation. To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 3.6 out of 10.
On the page itself the strengths are clear: a clear heading structure, visible credibility markers and sitemaps and entity links AI can follow. What holds it back is a clearly stated business identity, the technical files AI engines look for, such as llms.txt or an open robots.txt and structured data describing the business.
Off the page, almost no other sites link to it, the domain does not yet read as established, AI engines do not yet recognise it as a distinct business, there is no press coverage to draw on, nobody is discussing it where AI engines look and it does not come up on Reddit. Those are earned elsewhere on the web, not fixed on the site itself.
The site links to no social profiles, so there is nothing tying the brand to a wider presence.
The 6 signals AI reads
Higher is better · 0-10
Structured Data
1
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
8
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
4
How clearly your brand identity reads to AI.
E-E-A-T Signals
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust
8
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust markers.
Technical AEO
4
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
7
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
Off-page authority
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
0
No inbound links found yet.
Domain Trust
0
Little domain authority yet.
Entity Presence
0
Not in AI knowledge graphs yet.
News Mentions
0
No press coverage found yet.
Community
0
No community discussion yet.
0
No Reddit mentions found yet.
What this score means
Your AEO score measures whether AI search engines - ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini - can actually read your site and cite it in answers. Roughly two-thirds of sites are invisible to them. At 3.6/10, Sports-Reference.com is crawlable but under-signaled - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
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Source & Attribution
Scored by Engagemii on August 1, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
Source URL: https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/ballref
Cite this score: Engagemii (2026). "AEO Score for Sports-Reference.com." Retrieved from https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/ballref
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