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Game plan · Week 16

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 49.1 points this week, give or take 61 (one standard deviation), if The System's numbers are right.
A typical week lands between -12 and 110. Roughly one week in ten goes worse than -29.
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
HOU at PHI
Thu 8:15 PM ET
HOU 61%61%+1.2No market line yet.
GB at CHI
Fri 1:00 PM ET
CHI 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
BUF at DEN
Fri 4:30 PM ET
DEN 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
LAR at SEA
Fri 8:15 PM ET
SEA 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
CIN at IND
Sun 12:00 AM ET
CIN 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
CAR at PIT
Sun 12:00 AM ET
PIT 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
WSH at MIN
Sun 12:00 AM ET
MIN 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
TB at ATL
Sun 12:00 AM ET
ATL 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
NE at NYJ
Sun 1:00 PM ET
NE 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
CLE at BAL
Sun 1:00 PM ET
BAL 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
LAC at MIA
Sun 1:00 PM ET
MIA 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
ARI at NO
Sun 1:00 PM ET
NO 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
TEN at LV
Sun 4:05 PM ET
LV 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
SF at KC
Sun 4:25 PM ET
SF 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
JAX at DAL
Sun 8:20 PM ET
JAX 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
NYG at DET
Mon 8:15 PM ET
DET 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.