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NFL post-mortem

Our pick'em vs the NFL.com experts

Our published record

Every card we posted, graded

Two products, never added together. The pick'em picks every game straight up: the betting favorite in weeks 1-3, the team our model has winning from week 4. The Spread Sheet picked every game against the spread in weeks 1-3 and picks the winner outright from week 4. Both are posted before the week's first kickoff. Picks, not stakes.

WeekPick'em (straight up)Spread Sheet (ATS)Spread Sheet moneyline

Straight up

Us vs the experts

Our pick'emNFL.com experts and our model
Win % picking winners. The dashed line is 50%.
Why

Why the favorite keeps winning

When they picked the favoriteWhen they picked the underdog
Everyone does about the same when they agree with the favorite. The gap between the experts comes from their underdog picks.
Each dot is an expert. Across: how far their predicted margin sits from the betting line on average. Up: how far their predicted margin missed the real one. The line itself sits at zero.
Against the spread

Nobody has beaten the number

SourceATSCover %
This week

The upsets

GameFinalFavoriteExperts who called itOur model
Every upset this season
WkGameFinalFavoriteExperts who called itOur model
Storylines

Where the market is behind

Total points each team has beaten or missed the spread by this season. A big positive number means the market keeps underrating a team; a big negative one means it keeps pricing them too high.

Beat the spreadMissed the spread
Next week

Games that test the storylines

Takeaways

What we're taking from it

Method

How this is graded

Every result is graded from final scores. Expert picks come from NFL.com's weekly picks articles; a straight-up pick is the team their predicted score has winning, and an ATS pick is graded at the line printed in their article. Our picks are graded at the line we posted. The experts' majority vote is the side most of the five took.

Samples are small. Over a few weeks, one or two games move a record several points, so we read the patterns, not the exact order of the leaderboard.

Get every pick

Picks posted before kickoff, graded after

Every card on this page was posted before the week's first game. Members get the picks, the track record and the post-mortems in Discord.

Every day we drop the claw. The claw doesn't always grab — but we always play again.