No Spoiler Cricket

Spoiler-safe 2026 cricket calendar with direct watch links. Built as a static site — no JavaScript framework, just node generators that emit HTML from hand-curated JSON.

Quick start

npm run build
open index.html

What's in the box

• index.html — 2026 cricket fixtures calendar (filterable by format, team, prestige, rating)
• players.html + players/<slug>.html — top players index with announced programs
• ipl.html + ipl/<slug>.html — IPL 2026 hub with all 10 franchises, format rules, per-region broadcast, and per-team pages (captain, marquee watch, squad, home venue)
• match-details/<slug>.html — per-match/series briefing sheets (IPL sheet includes a franchise grid)

Focus: IPL 2026

The marquee league is the Indian Premier League — mid-season right now (20 Mar → 24 May 2026). The IPL hub surfaces:

• All ten franchises (CSK, MI, RCB, KKR, DC, GT, RR, SRH, LSG, PBKS) with 2026 captains, home venues, and marquee-watch players
• Format & rules (two groups of five, 14 league matches each, Impact Player rule retained for 2026)
• Where to watch by region — India (JioHotstar / Star Sports), US (Willow TV), UK (Sky Sports), AU (Fox/Kayo), Canada, UAE, SEA, South Africa
• Pre-tournament storylines — RCB defending, Cameron Green's record KKR buy, Dhoni's possible farewell, Pant/Iyer captaincy swaps, Samson to CSK, Suryavanshi's second year

Data pipeline

Canonical data lives in data/*.json:

• data/match-data.json — fixtures and series
• data/players.json — top players with ICC rankings + IPL franchise links
• data/ipl-teams.json — IPL 2026 franchise detail (captains, venues, squads, colors)

HTML generators read it and emit static pages:

npm run build      # rebuilds everything

# or individually:
node generate-page.js                      # calendar → index.html
node generate-match-details.js --all       # per-match sheets → match-details/
node generate-players-index.js             # → players.html
node generate-player-details.js --all      # per-player → players/<slug>.html
node generate-ipl-teams.js                 # → ipl.html + ipl/<slug>.html

Research

The research/ folder contains Perplexity-sourced research notes that seeded the IPL 2026 data (captains, squads, broadcast deals, pre-tournament storylines). The research script lives in ~/Projects/hello-perplexity/tmp/ipl-2026-research.js.

Spoiler safety

• No results, scorecards, or standings anywhere.
• Pre-tournament storylines and historical context (prior editions) are fine.
• Where-to-watch blocks include a reminder to disable autoplay and skip YouTube sidebars.

See CLAUDE.md for the schema reference. Every HTML page is generated from the JSON — no manual editing.