Who runs it, where every number comes from, what the data does not cover yet, and what we do when we get something wrong.
SMX Analytix is written and run by David Kober. It is an independent project with no affiliation to Feld Motor Sports, MX Sports Pro Racing, the AMA, or any team, rider or manufacturer. Nobody pays for coverage here, and nothing on the site is sponsored.
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Most coverage treats "the season" as one thing. It is three separate championships, run by two different promoters on two different points scales, plus a playoff that seeds off both. The site is built around that structure, and every page keeps the three apart.
Supercross and Pro Motocross never feed each other's championship. The SMX Playoffs do not carry regular-season points forward either — they use the combined totals only to seed the field, then reset everyone to a fixed scale. That distinction is the one most often reported wrongly, so the playoff seeding page shows the arithmetic in full.
promotocross.com, every finisher, not top-20 tables.
Championship totals are recomputed from those motos and reconciled
against the official standings after each round.racerxonline.com, with round-by-round finishes from the
Wikipedia season article.supermotocross.com, promotocross.com and
supercrosslive.com.Pro Motocross scores 21 positions per moto, twice a round:
This is the current scale. The pre-2023 table paid only 20 positions and gave 16 for fifth. Scoring a modern season on the old table understates every rider from fifth back and leaves the front two or three looking correct, which is exactly how that error hides. We ran into it, found it, and rebuilt the season from the motos.
Supercross uses the same table, awarded once per main event instead of twice per round:
The AMA aligned the two series for 2024, so there is now one scale for the whole season. Pre-2024 Supercross paid 22 positions starting 26-23-21-19, and scoring a modern season on that retired table inflates every result. We had it wrong here until we rebuilt the Supercross rounds and the arithmetic refused to close.
Round overalls outdoors are settled on combined moto points, with the better second moto breaking a tie. Triple Crown rounds in Supercross run three main events and score on the round overall. The 250 Showdowns put both regions in one main event, with each rider scoring into their own regional championship on their combined finish — which is why a Showdown pays a region far less than a normal round. Playoff rounds score on the round overall at ×1, ×2 and ×3.
A rider's finishing positions do not always sum to their championship total, because the AMA deducts points for rules infractions and a results sheet cannot show that. Vince Friese lost ten championship points at Detroit for aggressive racing, and fifteen across the 2026 season in all.
Where this happens we keep the official total, keep the round results as they were raced, and record the difference as a penalty rather than quietly adjusting one to fit the other. Nine riders carried a points penalty in 2026.
Every championship on the site carries a coverage record, and the pages show it rather than hiding it. As it stands:
| Championship | Totals | Round-by-round detail |
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Where an input is missing, the metric shows a dash. It is never estimated, modelled or filled in. Holeshots, for example, are carried in the Supercross feed but not the Pro Motocross one, so holeshot rate is blank outdoors rather than zero.
Not yet integrated at all: start positions, qualifying times, lap times, pass counts and heat-race detail. Those need a live timing feed.
Race recaps are assembled from the official classifications within hours of a round finishing, then edited before they publish. They report what the results show. Where a cause is not confirmed by the team or the series — a mechanical, an injury, a penalty — the recap says only what was classified, and does not repeat a reason it cannot source.
Predictions are published before the gate drops and graded afterwards on the predictions page, including the ones that miss. A forecast that is only scored when it is right is not a forecast.
When something here is wrong, it gets fixed and the fix gets stated rather than quietly edited in. If you spot an error, mail dkober@smxanalytix.com — a pointer to the round and rider is enough, and corrections from readers who know the sport better than we do are welcome.