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Week 4

Detroit LionsatCarolina Panthers

Sunday, Oct 4, 8:20 PM ET

Opened
+3
First seen Jul 29
Now
+3
Unmoved
Total
47.5
Prices archived
18
1 spread · 1 total
Sitting on 3 — the most valuable number it can hold

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.

DET
59.4%
CAR
40.6%

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

4.5%the book's margin on this game

The two prices add up to 104.5%. Everything over 100% is the book's edge, taken whichever side you pick.

Head to head

Jared Goff · DETQB Index componentsBryce Young · CAR
83 · S
Index
57 · B
34.0
Attempts / gm
29.9
6.2%
Sacked
share of dropbacks
5.3%
68.0%
QB Index · vs CAR

Jared Goff

DET · 17 games, 578 attempts · 2025 figures

83
index
S

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

Volumeweight 0.40
8th of 57

34.0 attempts per game · team runs 60 plays at 57% pass · sacked on 6.2% of dropbacks

Efficiencyweight 0.35
9th of 57

7.9 yards per attempt · 68.0% completions · 0.173 EPA per dropback

Matchupweight 0.25
10th of 32

CAR has allowed 7.2 yards per attempt across 17 games

The life of this number: the DraftKings spread opened +3 on Wed, Jul 29, 68 days before kickoff and has not moved since — 37 days sitting on 3.

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 3 covered 481 of 1,010 games.

The range covers a coin flip. 102 pushed and are excluded — at whole numbers that matters more than it sounds.

They won outright in 648 of 1,112.

The total

Totals of 47.5 went over 104 of 217 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.

Completion
63.6%
7.9
Yards / att
6.3
218.5
Air yards / gm
193.9
0.173
EPA / dropback
-0.044
+2.9
CPOE
completion % over expected
+1.3

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.

≈ 254 yards32 attempts × 7.9 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 25.3 points implied.

What he has actually cleared
225.5 yards in 12 of 17250.5 yards in 11 of 17275.5 yards in 8 of 17

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 DET

Bryce Young

CAR · 16 games, 478 attempts · 2025 figures

57
index
B

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

Volumeweight 0.40
23rd of 57

29.9 attempts per game · team runs 57 plays at 53% pass · sacked on 5.3% of dropbacks

Efficiencyweight 0.35
32nd of 57

6.3 yards per attempt · 63.6% completions · -0.044 EPA per dropback

Matchupweight 0.25
11th of 32

DET has allowed 7.2 yards per attempt across 17 games

≈ 181 yards29 attempts × 6.3 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 22.3 points implied.

What he has actually cleared
150.5 yards in 10 of 16175.5 yards in 7 of 16200.5 yards in 4 of 16

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

This line sits on 3, which was the exact final margin in 1,046 of 6,967 games.

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.