What a pick is
A pick is one bet, written out in full and published before the match starts. It is a piece of information — not a bet we place, and not a claim to know the result.
What a pick contains
- The fixture — sport, competition and the two sides, with the kick-off time.
- The market and the selection — what kind of bet it is, and which side of it we are on.
- The line, when the market has one. A pick-'em has no line, and that is not the same as a line of zero.
- The published price — the odds we could see at the moment we released it.
- The minimum price — the floor below which we no longer think the bet is worth taking.
- The stake share — what proportion of a bankroll the pick is sized at, so a small edge is not read as a big one.
- A commit hash, published before kick-off, so the pick cannot be edited once the result is known.
Everything on that list is fixed at release. Nothing on it is touched afterwards, and the whole row is published in the results archive once the day has settled, whether it won or lost.
What a pick is not
- It is not a bet. Nothing is staked anywhere by us. You place it yourself, at your own bookmaker, with your own money.
- It is not a forecast of the match. It is a position on one market. A pick can be right while the team it names loses, and wrong while they win.
- It is not knowledge. It is a judgement about a price, made before the event, and the event has not happened yet.
Two kinds of pick, one format
Every day has one main pick — the one that decides whether the day counts — and up to ten extra picks alongside it. They are written the same way and committed the same way. What separates them is what they do to your counter, and only the main pick does anything at all.
Every pick can lose
Picks that lose are the product working normally, not the product failing. Nothing here removes chance from a bet, and nothing here is an investment or a source of income. What we sell is information about a price; what happens to your money after that is between you and your bookmaker.