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Game plan · Conf. Champ.

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 2.7 points this week, give or take 21 (one standard deviation), if The System's numbers are right. Playing straight would expect 2.7.
A typical week lands between -18 and 23. Roughly one week in ten goes worse than -24.
Sign up to apply this planEvery number, your recommended mode, and one button that sets your picks.

Play straight 2 games

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

GamePlaySystemExpectsWhy
TBD at TBD
Sun 12:00 AM ET
TBD 57%58%+1.3No market line yet.
TBD at TBD
Sun 12:00 AM ET
TBD 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.