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About this site

What Gameday Picks is

Gameday Picks is a free, independent research site about sports betting, for adults 21 and older. A computer program reads public sports data and the betting lines a sportsbook published, applies rules that were written down in advance, and logs every suggestion before the game starts. After the game, every suggestion is graded against the final score and against the closing line (the last line before the game started).

What it is not

  • Not a sportsbook. We do not take bets, hold money, run contests, or connect to any betting account.
  • Not a paid service. We do not sell picks, take payments or donations, run ads, or use affiliate links. No sportsbook pays us, and none decides what we show.
  • Not advice. Everything here is information and entertainment only. It is not betting, financial, investment, tax or legal advice, and nothing here tells you to place a bet.

How we stay honest

  • Rules first. Every rule is written down and dated before it is tested, and before it makes a single pick.
  • Every pick is logged before kickoff and nothing is deleted afterwards. Losses stay on the record.
  • Most ideas fail, and we say so. Each sport's Research view lists every test, including the ones that failed. At the time of writing, no sport on this site has a tested, proven edge over the betting market.
  • The closing line is the scoreboard. A win-loss record over a few dozen bets is mostly luck; beating the closing line over time is the more honest sign, so every pick shows both.
  • Parlays show the odds against you. Every parlay shows the chance the book's own prices give it next to the payout, and the real chance is lower because the book takes a cut on every leg.
  • Past results do not predict future results. A rule that did well before can lose from here on.

Where the numbers come from

Scores, schedules, box scores, injury reports, team ratings and the DraftKings lines are read from ESPN's public web pages and data. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (licensed under CC BY 4.0). Historical NFL data from nflverse. Historical Premier League results and prices from football-data.co.uk; historical NHL lines from Sportsbook Reviews Online. News notes on each card link to their sources. Data can be late, missing or wrong: always check the current line and any news with your sportsbook and an official source before you decide anything.

Names and trademarks

ESPN, DraftKings and the names of leagues, teams and players belong to their owners and are used only to say whose line, game or statistic a number is. Gameday Picks is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any league, team, player, sportsbook, or media company, and it has no connection to ESPN's College GameDay or its picks segment.

Who runs it

Gameday Picks is an independent hobby project run by one person, built with the help of AI tools. It earns nothing.

Contact

Questions or corrections: [email protected].