NPB Daily Companion
A matchday companion for English-speaking baseball fans following Japan's NPB, delivering morning previews, pitcher scouting cards, and live AI-narrated game summaries in one feed.
International baseball fans who follow NPB but struggle with Japanese-only coverage
- Daily morning preview digest in English covering every NPB game
- Pitcher scouting cards with stats, splits, and career context
- Live score updates paired with AI-written play-by-play summaries
- Season-long stat tracking and notifications for favorite teams
Japan's NPB is gaining global attention but English coverage is fragmented across Reddit, YouTube, and JP-only sites; the surge in 'npb' searches shows real recurring demand for a single English-language hub.
r/NPB has ~31,000 members (small niche) and 'npb' sees only 200+ US searches; interest is real and recurring but modest in absolute terms.How to Follow Asian Professional Baseball ↗r/NPB community ↗
English NPB content already exists: Yakyu Cosmopolitan (analytics), Mainichi English (news), JapanBall (travel), plus multiple streaming guides — a unified matchday app is missing but the niche is not greenfield.Yakyu Cosmopolitan - Japanese Baseball in English ↗Mainichi English baseball section ↗NPB official English site ↗
No evidence of any paid English NPB product succeeding; Yakyu Cosmopolitan, JapanBall, Mainichi English, and r/NPB are all free, and the audience is small enough that paid conversion is unproven.Yakyu Cosmopolitan (free analytics site) ↗JapanBall free travel/content site ↗
NPB is a stable century-old league with season-driven recurring demand; MLB pipeline (Sasaki, Yamamoto) continues to pull international fans toward NPB content.How to Watch NPB Outside Japan ↗
Public NPB stats, Japanese->English LLM translation, and existing score feeds make a matchday aggregator buildable in moderate time; the harder parts are real-time data licensing and AI narration quality.Yakyu Cosmopolitan shows the data layer is accessible ↗