GSI provides direct, liquid public-market access to the global sports economy through a disciplined, rules-based methodology. The index identifies companies whose enterprise value depends on the existence of organized sport, and excludes apparel brands, betting operators, lifestyle footwear, and broad media conglomerates regardless of sports exposure.

The index is governed by a formal rulebook with categorical exclusions, observable inclusion criteria, a tiered eligibility floor, and a semi-annual rebalancing protocol. Inclusion and weight are determined by rule, not discretion. Solactive AG serves as the independent calculation agent, with live daily calculation since July 1, 2026.

Raw providers sell the data. Sportsbooks sell the price. PinHigh sells what sits between them: a gated, comparable designation with a published record behind it. Each player carries a held designation, a movement history that is itself the track record, a course-fit read, and a written analysis, refreshed after every start under a formal confirmation rule.

The published product is the PFI Field Sheet, a pre-event field publication carrying every competitor's designation, issued weekly for each covered vertical: golf ahead of each tournament and Formula 1 ahead of each Grand Prix. The same engine produces PinHigh Player Profiles, standing player documents with a live designation, a designation history, and structured analysis. The methodology is disciplined and gated; the public output is the read, not the internals. Public designations: SURGING, RISING, STEADY, DECLINING.

Capital has flooded into women's and emerging professional sports, and funds, administrators, and auditors now have to mark these positions every quarter under ASC 820 with almost no specialist infrastructure to lean on. Mature-league multiples applied mechanically to emerging-league assets misstate value.

SAV decomposes a position into separately valued components, each evaluated on its own evidence rather than collapsed into a single multiple, with stage classification, source-tiering, strict separation of sourced data from analyst judgment, and a calibration register that tests every mark against subsequent transactions. The output is a recurring fair-value process a fund can rely on.

Every mark is produced under the PinHigh Sports Asset Valuation framework and a governed operating rulebook. The primary market-approach indication is built from revenue and a transaction-calibrated league multiple, then reconciled to the most recent qualifying transaction and to all other material evidence. Comparables stay on a strict three-way split: control sales, expansion fees, and minority prints are never blended into one median.

Inputs are tiered by source quality, and published valuation lists are context only, never a primary basis. Each mark carries a confidence tier and a stated band, with bands recalibrated over time to observed error against subsequent transactions. Amendments are prospective only, restatements are never silent, and the error log is part of the public record.

Sports outcomes now trade on regulated venues, and surveillance can flag activity in those markets. It cannot, on its own, say who plausibly knew first. SIRP supplies the missing reference: a mapping of the role-based categories of persons who hold or can hold material nonpublic information bearing on an outcome, scored on materiality, lead time, and practical exploitability, and resolved into a graded exposure read.

The framework is instrument-agnostic, applying identically to event contracts, fixed-odds sportsbooks, and daily fantasy formats, because information that leaks into one venue is priced across all of them. It names no person, alleges no conduct, and reads no trade data. PinHigh is independent of surveillance tooling, trading venues, and remediation economics, and any engagement runs under a published conflicts protocol.

PinHigh Capital exists to show that the published methodologies translate into investable strategies. It licenses the Global Sports Index from the parent and runs a research portfolio that builds a documented track record against the benchmark.

It is not investment advice, an offer, or a solicitation, and it is not offered to outside investors. The discipline is the same one that governs every PinHigh product: rules first, documentation throughout, and an honest record.

PinHigh covers, predicts, and measures sports as the global, institutional asset class it has become. The Substack publishes the weekly Player Form work, the long-form essays on capital flows and league economics, and the valuation writing for the fund-CFO and administrator audience. The voice is institutional and first-person.

The public work is where the track record lives. It is written to earn attention and authority, build the accountable record behind PFI, and connect index methodology, player analytics, valuation discipline, and market integrity in one place.