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Game plan · Week 15

Sign up and the plan is fitted to you: where you stand on the leaderboard decides whether to protect a lead, play straight, or chase. Below is the same plan for everyone in each mode: which games to press, which to keep near 50, with The System's numbers on this week's featured game and on games that have kicked off.
The recommendation treats week-to-week differences between good players as roughly normal with a 25-point spread, and uses the replay's measured cost and swing of each mode. It's a guide, not a guarantee.

Protect. Shrink every number 10% toward 50. Gives up a little over a point a week; cuts the week's swing by a tenth.

This plan expects 34.4 points this week, give or take 48 (one standard deviation), if The System's numbers are right. Playing straight would expect 34.7.
A typical week lands between -14 and 83. Roughly one week in ten goes worse than -28.
Sign up to apply this planEvery number, your recommended mode, and one button that sets your picks.

Play straight 16 games

Clear favorites with mild disagreement, and the rest. Nothing to exploit; the number is the number.

GamePlaySystemExpectsWhy
SF at LAC
Thu 8:15 PM ET
SF 69%72%+4.6No market line yet.
SEA at PHI
Sat 5:00 PM ET
SEA 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
CHI at BUF
Sat 8:20 PM ET
BUF 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
CIN at CAR
Sun 1:00 PM ET
CIN 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
NO at TB
Sun 1:00 PM ET
TB 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
ATL at WSH
Sun 1:00 PM ET
WSH 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
JAX at HOU
Sun 1:00 PM ET
JAX 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
CLE at NYG
Sun 1:00 PM ET
CLE 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
BAL at PIT
Sun 1:00 PM ET
PIT 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
MIA at GB
Sun 1:00 PM ET
GB 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
IND at TEN
Sun 1:00 PM ET
IND 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
NYJ at ARI
Sun 4:05 PM ET
ARI 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
DAL at LAR
Sun 4:25 PM ET
LAR 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
DEN at LV
Sun 4:25 PM ET
DEN 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
DET at MIN
Sun 8:20 PM ET
MIN 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
NE at KC
Mon 8:15 PM ET
KC 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.

Expected points assume The System's probability is the truth; the Nudges page tracks whether it is. The plan is the same for everyone in a mode; what changes with your standing is which mode makes sense.