Transparency and ranking

Rating methodology

For over 100 racket models on the platform, we have personally tested them on the court (playing a set or more) to experience their performance, sweet spot, and handling firsthand.

For many other rackets, we consult directly with expert club friends, coaches, and advanced players who have thoroughly playtested them, gathering their direct feedback and insights before writing a review.

Other ratings and recommendations are built from verified technical specifications, structured racket attributes, user reviews, and trusted public sources. If a fact is not backed by source data or a deterministic transformation, it stays blank instead of being invented.

PadelScout scores combine control, power, maneuverability, sweet spot, comfort, and overall value. Those scores are comparison aids, not claims that one racket is universally best for every player.

Price sources and availability

Prices and availability come from European retailer feeds, affiliate links, manual checks when needed, and price-history records that PadelScout stores while processing offers.

Retailers control the final price, stock status, shipping, and checkout. PadelScout shows the latest known data from its processing pipeline and sends shoppers to the retailer for the final purchase.

Prices can change between the last update and the moment you open a retailer. When data is missing or stale, we prefer not to show it rather than create false precision.

Update cadence

Catalog data, offers, best prices, and price history are updated through operational ingestion scripts. Public pages are then refreshed through Next.js/Vercel caching and revalidation, so a visible page may not reflect every retailer change instantly.

Durable content such as specifications, reviews, and explanatory sections changes more carefully because it must stay aligned with available sources and real racket behavior.

Rankings and recommendations

Popularity and recommendation outputs do not come from a single flag. The app combines racket attributes, user ratings, review counts, editorial flags, freshness signals, and available offer data.

Racket Match uses structured scoring based on quiz answers. The AI Coach's Take adds explanatory copy on top of the already-ranked results and is not the sole decision-maker.

Commercial transparency

Some retailer links are affiliate links marked as sponsored. PadelScout may earn a commission when purchases happen through those links.

Commission does not set the retailer's price or automatically place a product in results. Retailers control their own pricing, stock, and checkout policies.

Reviews and moderation

Only visible reviews are rendered publicly. Users can report suspicious or abusive reviews, and those reports feed into moderation decisions and content takedowns when needed.