Sunday, Oct 25, 9:30 AM ET
Where the best number is
Across the 2 books we archive — which is a real limit on this, and we would rather say so than imply a survey of the market. Lines only: two books on the same number with different juice read as equal here.
Both prices with the bookmaker's margin removed. This is the market's number, not ours — we don't forecast NFL games, and we publish why.
Teams the market priced at 55–60% won 493 of 879 games since 1999.Slightly worse than the price claimed, by 1.4 points.
The two prices add up to 104.1%. Everything over 100% is the book's edge, taken whichever side you pick.
PIT · 5 games, 184 attempts
36.8 attempts per game · team runs 59 plays at 63% pass · sacked on 7.1% of dropbacks
6.7 yards per attempt · 59.8% completions · -0.071 EPA per dropback
NO has allowed 7.5 yards per attempt across 5 games
Following the FanDuel spread · one of 2 books archived · 2 prices on record
Opened +1.5 on Wed, Jul 29, 88 days before kickoff.
One reprice since, 1 point of movement in all. It sits +2.5 — the favourite is 1 point bigger than at the open.
Half of the movement was over by Mon, Oct 19, 2 AM ET.
1 point at once — +1.5 to +2.5 on Mon, Oct 19, 2 AM ET.
Every sentence above is arithmetic on prices we recorded and the times we recorded them. Nothing here says where this number goes next.
Following the FanDuel total · one of 2 books archived · 2 prices on record
Opened 40.5 on Wed, Jul 29, 88 days before kickoff.
One reprice since, 4 points of movement in all. It sits 44.5 — 4 points higher than the open.
Half of the movement was over by Tue, Oct 13, 8 PM ET.
4 points at once — 40.5 to 44.5 on Tue, Oct 13, 8 PM ET.
Every sentence above is arithmetic on prices we recorded and the times we recorded them. Nothing here says where this number goes next.
Counts from 6,967 regular-season games since 1999. No model, no forecast — this is the history of the number itself, not a claim about this game.
Favourites of 2.5 covered 244 of 504 games.
The range covers a coin flip.
They won outright in 269 of 504.
Totals of 44.5 went over 129 of 294 times.
The range clears a coin flip.
Home handicap. Dashed rules are the key numbers.
Over line.
The books haven't posted player props for this game yet — normal this far out. The archive is already watching for them: the moment a price appears it is captured, kept forever, and becomes loggable here.
When they land you'll get the same book you get on the game lines — closing-line value, a letter grade and a good-bet verdict on every prop you log. No projections: our prop model failed its own pre-registered calibration gate, and we don't ship numbers that failed.
Every point above is a price we observed and stored, with the time we saw it. Nothing on this page is a prediction, a rating, or a recommended bet.
Every row is a rate measured over games already played, never a probability — the same components behind each quarterback's Index below. Our passing model failed its calibration test; we publish that on the accuracy page.
Expected volume from the inputs above. Unvalidated — it is arithmetic on what has already happened, not a forecast that has been scored against outcomes.
The market has his team at 23.5 points implied.
The index ranks this quarterback and this matchup against every qualifying passer, over games already played. It is not a probability and not a bet — our passing-yards model failed its calibration test, and we publish that on the accuracy page.
NO · 5 games, 205 attempts
41.0 attempts per game · team runs 64 plays at 64% pass · sacked on 6.0% of dropbacks
6.3 yards per attempt · 66.8% completions · -0.023 EPA per dropback
PIT has allowed 7.4 yards per attempt across 5 games
Expected volume from the inputs above. Unvalidated — it is arithmetic on what has already happened, not a forecast that has been scored against outcomes.
The market has his team at 21.0 points implied.
The index ranks this quarterback and this matchup against every qualifying passer, over games already played. It is not a probability and not a bet — our passing-yards model failed its calibration test, and we publish that on the accuracy page.
Across 6,967 regular-season games since 1999, 24 of 28 spread rungs with a usable sample had a 95% interval containing 50%. In other words the number itself has never been an edge, at any rung, in twenty-seven seasons. What it is good for is knowing which numbers are expensive to cross — and a rung holding fewer than 30 games is shown greyed rather than dropped.