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Game plan · Week 17

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 55.5 points this week, give or take 65 (one standard deviation), if The System's numbers are right.
A typical week lands between -10 and 121. 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
BAL at CIN
Thu 8:15 PM ET
CIN 70%70%+3.9No market line yet.
LAR at TB
Sun 12:00 AM ET
LAR 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
DEN at NE
Sun 12:00 AM ET
NE 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
KC at LAC
Sun 12:00 AM ET
KC 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
WSH at JAX
Sun 12:00 AM ET
JAX 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
NYG at DAL
Sun 1:00 PM ET
DAL 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
PIT at TEN
Sun 1:00 PM ET
PIT 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
BUF at MIA
Sun 1:00 PM ET
BUF 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
NO at ATL
Sun 1:00 PM ET
ATL 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
MIN at NYJ
Sun 1:00 PM ET
MIN 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
SEA at CAR
Sun 1:00 PM ET
SEA 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
IND at CLE
Sun 1:00 PM ET
CLE 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
LV at ARI
Sun 4:05 PM ET
LV 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
DET at CHI
Sun 4:25 PM ET
CHI 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
PHI at SF
Sun 8:20 PM ET
SF 00%00%+0.0No market line yet.
HOU at GB
Mon 8:15 PM ET
GB 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.