What minimum odds mean, and why they are published
Every pick goes out with a minimum price. It is the floor below which we no longer think that bet is worth taking. It is not a target, and it is not a prediction of where the price will go.
Why a pick needs a floor
A selection is not good or bad on its own — it is good or bad at a price. The same side at 1.90 and at 1.35 are two different bets, and only one of them may be worth making. Publishing a selection without a floor would leave "we said take it" with no boundary at all, which is convenient for us and useless to you.
How to use it
- Check your bookmaker's number against the minimum before you place anything.
- At or above it — the bet is the bet we published.
- Below it — skip it. Nothing is owed and nothing is lost by skipping; the day settles the same way.
Why it cannot be moved afterwards
The minimum price is part of what goes into the pick's commit hash, published before kick-off. That means it cannot be quietly lowered after a result to make a pick look reasonable, or raised to explain a loss away. Whatever floor we set is the floor the record shows.
It is also the one number that can cost us a day: if the market was already under our published minimum when we released the pick, the day is voided and your counter does not move.