diff --git a/apps/scouting/backend/src/routes/tba.ts b/apps/scouting/backend/src/routes/tba.ts
index 418317d..8e796e4 100644
--- a/apps/scouting/backend/src/routes/tba.ts
+++ b/apps/scouting/backend/src/routes/tba.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import {
   matchesProps,
   scoreBreakdown2026,
   tbaMatch,
+  type TBAMatchesProps,
 } from "@repo/scouting_types";
 import { right } from "fp-ts/lib/Either";
 import { StatusCodes } from "http-status-codes";
@@ -20,17 +21,30 @@ import {
   type TaskEither,
   fromEither,
   tryCatch,
+  map,
+  chainFirstTaskK,
 } from "fp-ts/lib/TaskEither";
-import { pipe } from "fp-ts/lib/function";
-import { map } from "fp-ts/lib/Task";
+import { flow, pipe } from "fp-ts/lib/function";
+import { map as taskMap } from "fp-ts/lib/Task";
 import * as t from "io-ts";
 import type { Type } from "io-ts";
+import { getDb } from "../middleware/db";
+import { getMax } from "@repo/array-functions";
+import { fold as booleanFold } from "fp-ts/boolean";
 
 export const tbaRouter = Router();
 
 const TBA_KEY = process.env.TBA_API_KEY ?? "yourtbakey";
 const TBA_URL = "https://www.thebluealliance.com/api/v3";
 
+const tbaMatches = t.array(tbaMatch(scoreBreakdown2026, t.type({})));
+type TBAMatches = t.TypeOf<typeof tbaMatches>;
+
+const getCollection = flow(
+  getDb,
+  map((db) => db.collection<TBAMatches[number]>("tba")),
+);
+
 const fetchTba = <U>(
   route: string,
   typeToCheck: Type<U, unknown>,
@@ -50,34 +64,68 @@ const fetchTba = <U>(
         reason: `Error Fetching From TBA: error ${error}`,
       }),
     ),
-    map(
+    taskMap(
       createTypeCheckingEndpointFlow(typeToCheck, (errors) => ({
         status: StatusCodes.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR,
         reason: `Recieved incorrect response from the TBA. error: ${errors}`,
-      }))
-    )
+      })),
+    ),
   ) satisfies TaskEither<EndpointError, U>;
 
+const insertMatches = (matches: TBAMatches) =>
+  pipe(
+    getCollection(),
+    map((collection) => collection.insertMany(matches)),
+  );
+const getStoredMatches = flow(
+  getCollection,
+  flatMap((collection) =>
+    tryCatch(collection.find().toArray, (error) => ({
+      reason: `Error getting from collection ${String(error)}`,
+      status: StatusCodes.BAD_REQUEST,
+    })),
+  ),
+);
+
+const getMatches = flow(
+  flatMap((body: TBAMatchesProps) =>
+    pipe(
+      getStoredMatches(),
+      map((currentMatches) => ({ currentMatches, body })),
+    ),
+  ),
+  flatMap(({ currentMatches, body }) =>
+    pipe(
+      getMax(currentMatches, (match) => match.match_number).match_number <
+        body.maxMatch,
+      booleanFold(
+        () =>
+          pipe(
+            fetchTba(`/event/${body.event}/matches`, tbaMatches),
+            chainFirstTaskK(
+              (fetchedMatches) => async () =>
+                Promise.resolve(insertMatches(fetchedMatches)),
+            ),
+          ),
+        () => fromEither(right(currentMatches)),
+      ),
+    ),
+  ),
+);
+
 tbaRouter.post("/matches", async (req, res) => {
   await pipe(
     right(req),
     createBodyVerificationPipe(matchesProps),
     fromEither,
-    flatMap((body) =>
-      fetchTba(
-        `/event/${body.event}/matches`,
-        t.array(tbaMatch(scoreBreakdown2026, t.type({}))),
-      ),
-    ),
+    getMatches,
     fold(
       (error) => () =>
         new Promise((resolve) => {
           resolve(res.status(error.status).send(error.reason));
         }),
       (matches) => () =>
-        new Promise((resolve) => {
-          resolve(res.status(StatusCodes.OK).json({ matches }));
-        }),
+        Promise.resolve(res.status(StatusCodes.OK).json({ matches })),
     ),
   )();
 });
diff --git a/packages/array-functions/index.ts b/packages/array-functions/index.ts
index 520bc90..645cd90 100644
--- a/packages/array-functions/index.ts
+++ b/packages/array-functions/index.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ export const calculateSum = <T>(
 ): number =>
   arr.reduce((sum, value) => sum + transformation(value), startingSumValue);
 
+export const getMax = <T>(arr: T[], transformation: (value: T) => number): T =>
+  arr
+    .map((item) => ({ value: transformation(item), item }))
+    .reduce((max, curr) => (curr.value > max.value ? curr : max)).item;
+
 const FIRST_ELEMENT_ID = 0;
 const LAST_ELEMENT_BACKWARDS_INDEX = 1;
 export const firstElement = <T>(arr: T[]): T => arr[FIRST_ELEMENT_ID];
diff --git a/packages/scouting_types/tba/ScoreBreakdown2026.ts b/packages/scouting_types/tba/ScoreBreakdown2026.ts
index 576df21..7f4562c 100644
--- a/packages/scouting_types/tba/ScoreBreakdown2026.ts
+++ b/packages/scouting_types/tba/ScoreBreakdown2026.ts
@@ -56,3 +56,5 @@ export const scoreBreakdown2026 = t.type({
   totalTowerPoints: t.number,
   totalPoints: t.number,
 });
+
+export type ScoreBreakdown2026 = t.TypeOf<typeof scoreBreakdown2026>;
diff --git a/packages/scouting_types/tba/TBAMatch.ts b/packages/scouting_types/tba/TBAMatch.ts
index ba5ac6b..bcf0c3a 100644
--- a/packages/scouting_types/tba/TBAMatch.ts
+++ b/packages/scouting_types/tba/TBAMatch.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import * as t from "io-ts";
 
 export const matchesProps = t.type({
   event: t.string,
+  maxMatch: t.number
 });
 
 export type TBAMatchesProps = t.TypeOf<typeof matchesProps>;