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Game plan · Week 12

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.

Straight. Play The System's numbers as they are. Highest expected points.

This plan expects 49.2 points this week, give or take 60 (one standard deviation), if The System's numbers are right.
A typical week lands between -11 and 109. 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
GB at LAR
Wed 8:00 PM ET
LAR 63%63%+1.6No market line yet.
CHI at DET
Thu 1:00 PM ET
CHI 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
PHI at DAL
Thu 4:30 PM ET
DAL 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
KC at BUF
Thu 8:20 PM ET
BUF 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
DEN at PIT
Fri 3:00 PM ET
PIT 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
NYG at IND
Sun 1:00 PM ET
IND 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
BAL at HOU
Sun 1:00 PM ET
HOU 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
NO at CIN
Sun 1:00 PM ET
CIN 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
LV at CLE
Sun 1:00 PM ET
CLE 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
NYJ at MIA
Sun 1:00 PM ET
MIA 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
ATL at MIN
Sun 1:00 PM ET
MIN 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
TEN at JAX
Sun 4:05 PM ET
JAX 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
WSH at ARI
Sun 4:25 PM ET
WSH 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
SEA at SF
Sun 4:25 PM ET
SF 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
NE at LAC
Sun 8:20 PM ET
NE 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
CAR at TB
Mon 8:15 PM ET
TB 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.