Methodology

A play is a written position on a single number, posted publicly before the event starts. It names the player, the market, the side, the line, the price and the book. A post missing any of those six is commentary — it can be discussed, but it is not graded and it never enters the record.

Placeholder — client-supplied. The written definition goes here, with the edge cases settled in writing: how multi-leg posts are treated, whether alternate lines are separate plays, what happens to a play posted after first pitch or tip-off, and where a “lean” sits. Nothing in this section is in force until it is published.

A play joins the record at the moment it is posted, with the timestamp attached. Nothing is added once the event has started, so there is no window in which a play can appear after the result is already leaning one way.

Grading runs once the slate settles and publishes the following morning. Between the last game finishing and that run, the record shows the plays as posted and ungraded rather than guessing at them.

A win cleared the number on the side taken. A loss did not. A push landed exactly on the number: it counts as a play, returns the stake and sits outside the hit rate, which is wins divided by wins plus losses.

A void means there was no action at all — a scratch, a postponement, a player who never took the field. It leaves the record entirely rather than being carried as a push. A push is a result; a void is the absence of one, and counting it either way would move a number that nothing actually happened to. There are 2 voids in the full record.

The line and price recorded are the ones available at the named book at the time of posting. Not the best number that existed somewhere that day, and not a better price found afterwards — the number you could have taken when you read the post.

The closing number is captured at that same book when the market closes, which is what makes it comparable to the number taken. Where no closing number was captured, the field is left blank. An estimate in that column would quietly flatter every play in it.

The record updates after every slate. The timestamp at the top of the public record is the last time grading ran, not the last time the page was rebuilt, so a stale run is visible instead of hidden. It currently reads Aug 2, 2026 · 8:10 PM ET.

Every date and time on this site is Eastern. Plays are stored in UTC and converted for display, so the same play reads the same way wherever you open it, and no play crosses into a different day depending on where you are.

Mistakes happen: a stat line gets corrected, a play is graded against the wrong number. When one is found after grading, the fix is published as a correction — what it said, what it says now, and when it changed. The original grade is never silently overwritten, because a record that can be edited without a trace is not a record.

Plays are not removed after grading either. A loss cannot become a void, and a play cannot be withdrawn because it aged badly. If you think something is graded wrong, send the date and the play and it will be checked against the box score.

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