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Week 2

Cincinnati BengalsatHouston Texans

Sunday, Sep 20, 1:00 PM ET

Opened
-2.5
First seen Jul 29
Now
-2.5
Unmoved
Total
46.5
Prices archived
18
1 spread · 1 total
0.5 points short of 3

Nothing to shop yet

Only DraftKings quotes this game so far, so there is no second number to compare it against. Books further out post one at a time; this fills in as kickoff gets closer.

What the market says

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.

CIN
44.9%
HOU
55.1%

Teams the market priced at 55–60% won 493 of 879 games since 1999.Slightly worse than the price claimed, by 1.4 points.

4.2%the book's margin on this game

The two prices add up to 104.2%. Everything over 100% is the book's edge, taken whichever side you pick.

Head to head

Joe Flacco · CINQB Index componentsC.J. Stroud · HOU
52 · B
Index
72 · A
34.7
Attempts / gm
30.2
4.1%
Sacked
share of dropbacks
5.2%
60.3%
Completion
QB Index · vs HOU

Joe Flacco

CIN · 12 games, 416 attempts · 2025 figures

52
index
B

No games played yet this season — every figure here is from 2025.

Volumeweight 0.40
7th of 57

34.7 attempts per game · team runs 60 plays at 63% pass · sacked on 4.1% of dropbacks

Efficiencyweight 0.35
39th of 57

6.0 yards per attempt · 60.3% completions · -0.094 EPA per dropback

Matchupweight 0.25
26th of 32

HOU has allowed 6.5 yards per attempt across 17 games

The life of this number: the DraftKings spread opened -2.5 on Wed, Jul 29, 53 days before kickoff and has not moved since.

What happened at this number

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.

The spread

Favourites of 2.5 covered 244 of 504 games.

The range covers a coin flip.

They won outright in 269 of 504.

The total

Totals of 46.5 went over 121 of 239 times.

The range covers a coin flip.

How often a game ends on each margin
3
1,046 of 6,967
7
634 of 6,967
6
415 of 6,967

The spread, hour by hour

Home handicap. Dashed rules are the key numbers.

Only one price recorded so far — nothing to plot until it moves.

The total

Over line.

Only one price recorded so far — nothing to plot until it moves.

Player props

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.

64.5%
6.0
Yards / att
7.2
253.9
Air yards / gm
243.2
-0.094
EPA / dropback
0.107
-0.8
CPOE
completion % over expected
+0.2

Every row is a rate measured over games already played, never a probability — the same components behind each quarterback's Index below. No games played yet this season for at least one side, so those figures are last season’s. Our passing model failed its calibration test; we publish that on the accuracy page.

≈ 215 yards36 attempts × 6.0 yards per attempt

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 22.0 points implied.

What he has actually cleared
175.5 yards in 9 of 12200.5 yards in 5 of 12225.5 yards in 3 of 12

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.

QB Index · vs CIN

C.J. Stroud

HOU · 14 games, 423 attempts · 2025 figures

72
index
A

No games played yet this season — every figure here is from 2025.

Volumeweight 0.40
22nd of 57

30.2 attempts per game · team runs 62 plays at 55% pass · sacked on 5.2% of dropbacks

Efficiencyweight 0.35
19th of 57

7.2 yards per attempt · 64.5% completions · 0.107 EPA per dropback

Matchupweight 0.25
4th of 32

CIN has allowed 7.9 yards per attempt across 17 games

≈ 233 yards32 attempts × 7.2 yards per attempt

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 24.5 points implied.

What he has actually cleared
200.5 yards in 10 of 14225.5 yards in 7 of 14250.5 yards in 3 of 14

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.

10
390 of 6,967
4
341 of 6,967
14
334 of 6,967

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.