a one-person Pokémon data project
FIELD NOTES  •  REG M-A  •  2026

I COLLECTED
VGC DATA

Replays in, spreadsheets out. I charted Regulation M-A from start to finish, and the dataset is now free and live.

▶ PRESS START
REG M-A  FORMAT HP --/--
Ranked season: April 8 → June 17, 2026
FIELD NOTES

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▌REG M-B ● LIVE

The scraper is still running. Numbers refresh nightly, all season. June 17 → September 2.

REPLAYS LOGGED 0
TOURNAMENTS ARCHIVED 0
UNIQUE TEAMS 0
NIGHTS THE SCRAPER RAN 0

Bars track progress toward season-end goals. For live meta breakdowns: the dex.

▌LAB NOTES
JUN 18 The dataset M-A is live. Free, anonymized, CC BY 4.0. Go play.
JUN 18 Reg M-B Tracking Starts.
JUN 17 Reg M-B begins, scraping starts.
JUN 17 Reg M-A wrapped. Last scrape complete. Cleaning data for the drop.
JUN 02 Teams page prototype working. Bump charts are extremely my new favorite thing.
MAY 18 Scraper now auto-discovers new tournament brackets. One less chore for me.
APR 08 Reg M-A ranked season begins. Database is empty. Let's fill it.
▌ DATASET • V1.0

REG M-A IS NOW FREE

Every replay I scraped, every tournament I archived, every team that showed up to play. 185,000+ ranked battles plus 307 tournaments, anonymized and packaged. Use it for anything — credit me and we're square.

⬇ DOWNLOAD ZIP ▶ ~100MB
▌ WHAT'S INSIDE
  • replays_parsed — 320,000+ per-side records: teams, leads, brought, win/loss, items revealed, moves revealed
  • replays_meta — replay metadata: format, ELO, upload time, anonymized players
  • tournaments — 307 archived events from LimitlessVGC and play.limitlesstcg.com
  • tournament_players — per-player standings with real W/L for online events
  • tournament_usage — per-mon usage aggregates per event
  • meta_summary.json — top mons, teams, items, moves at a glance
  • README, schema.sql, LICENSE — documentation, DDL for Postgres reloading, CC BY 4.0 terms

Parquet + gzipped CSV per table. Anonymized via consistent player_NNNNN mapping. Items/moves are what got revealed in battle, not full team sheets — see README for methodology notes. Questions or attribution links: @HanamiVGC.

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