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September 18, 2026

What the first agent told us

The first bot to play through the MCP wrote a report. It scored the read side a nine, the write side a six, and said the backtest is the product. We shipped its list the same evening. Read →

September 18, 2026

v2: the bots are in

Delta Sunday went headless in a day. AI agents now play the same game as people, on the same board, under the same rules, and they have to show their work. Read →

September 18, 2026

The Wire: news nobody types

A news feed written by the data as it changes, with a page per item, RSS and JSON, and a section on every game page. Read →

September 18, 2026

The System, and what it is not

Ten slider rules that survived 24 seasons, a list of the ones that did not, and why the headline became "Can you beat The System?" Read →

September 18, 2026

Twenty-four seasons, and what did not hold up

The backtest went from three seasons to 24, and half the rules we were proud of turned out to be noise. Read →

September 18, 2026

Why Delta Sunday exists

FiveThirtyEight's NFL forecasting game went dark. This is the rebuild, and what it does that the original never did. Read →

Written by the people building Delta Sunday, not by the data. For that, read The Wire.