FanFlare Serve
Analytics and tooling,
built for modern volleyball coverage.
Live and historic data for all levels of the sport,optimized for research, management, and everything in between.Live and historic data for all levels of the sport, optimized forresearch, management, and everything in between.Live and historic data for all levels of the sport, optimized forresearch, management, and everything in between.
FanFlare App
Everything volleyball,
directly at your fingertips, for free.
Real-time scores, play-by-play, schedules,rankings, and more, across pro & college. Be the fan you deseve to be.Real-time scores, play-by-play, schedules, rankings, and more,across pro & college. Be the fan you deseve to be.Real-time scores, play-by-play, schedules, rankings, and more,across pro & college. Be the fan you deseve to be.
A state-of-the-art data platform behind both
Cutting-edge technology
Our data is built and maintained using the latest in data processing, storage, and distribution, allowing us to scale features faster and deliver more efficiently.
One pipeline, two products
The same ingestion, modeling stack, and output powers both Serve & the app, allowing both organizations & users of our services to take advantage of our work.
All things volleyball
Volleyball is a first-class citizen in our infrastructure, meaning we're not taking another sport and retrofitting it for volleyball; we're putting volleyball first.
FanFlare Serve
Our proprietary research platform
Scouting & Research Workflows
Surface statistics, matchup history, situational splits, and advanced primitives in custom views built for staff, not just repurposed box scores, and leverage natural language querying.
Recruiting & Roster Intelligence
Track programs, athletes, and trends across leagues, conferences, and seasons with the granularity and control APIs & spreadsheets can't match.
Operations-ready exports
Pull authoritative slices for prep, reporting, and decision-making for usage in coaching, scouting, SID workflows, broadcast graphics, and much more.
1 / 4Teams directory
Browse 1,000+ programs grouped by conference. Search, filter by league, and jump straight to rosters, schedules, and recruiting for any team.
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Player profiles
Deep player bios, career history across NCAA and pro, and game logs: built for fans who want more than a box score.
FanFlare App
Fan-first experiences on the same data
Live scores & play-by-play
Follow matches in real time with the depth fans expect: schedules, timelines, and context that you can't find anywhere else. FanFlare is truly the home for women's volleyball.
Rankings & advanced metrics
Explore all team & player stats, from the most basic to advanced metrics, both live and historic. Dive deep on team & player profiles and league history.
Intelligence on demand
Find all the relevant storylines, including recruiting and transfer movement, built for people who live in the sport year-round. Dig in across NCAA, LOVB, and MLV, with more to come!
About FanFlare
Traditional sports sites and social media platforms are fundamentally broken. Algorithms prioritize low-quality content and lack real-time updates and a forum for conversation. Women's Volleyball and Women's Sports as a whole are also painfully underserved, especially on the data side.
FanFlare is here to change things—with a hybrid platform (social media meets live sports data) for fans, and Serve for the programs and staff who need deeper analytics, recruiting, and operations tooling.
The company is the brainchild of two massive sports fans, Elling Hofland and LJ Rader, who met as early employees at DraftKings and also worked alongside each other at Sportradar. They are experts in sports data, engineering, and social media, and are excited to build platforms the community desperately needs.
The Team
LJ Rader is the co-founder and CEO of FanFlare Sports, focusing on the Product and Social sides of the platform.
He previously led the Broadcast Group at Sportradar, and held Product roles at DraftKings and NBC Sports, winning an Emmy Award for his Olympics coverage.
Elling Hofland is the co-founder and CTO of FanFlare Sports, focusing on the Engineering side of the platform.
He started his career at DraftKings before holding Technical Product roles at companies in Sports Data and Retail Technology, focusing on data products and its supporting infrastructure.
A ball-knower (volleyball) and Golden Gopher season ticket holder, he is motivated to build nice things that fans of women's sports deserve.
Pete is FanFlare's Director of Operations and a certified international man of mystery. (Last name: classified.)
He specializes in building and managing reference datasets and encoding deep sports knowledge into our derived products—turning hard-won subject-matter expertise into a semantic understanding of raw data.
Name withheld is FanFlare's resident analytics guru. She prefers to let the numbers do the talking.
Her models are sharp, her insights are sharper, and—for now—her identity stays strictly off the record.
Connect With Us
Follow FanFlare for updates on the Serve, the App, and more. We can be reached via email at info@fanflaresports.com.