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The Paper Gambler

Paper money. $100,000 simulated, no sportsbook account, no bet is ever placed anywhere. Nothing here is betting advice.

Why it did what it did

One entry per settled day, per book. The model writes prose over statistics it did not choose and cannot change, and it is barred from proposing a change to the risk limits. It never picks a bet: selection is arithmetic over market prices.

Main — US soft books · 2026-11-06 · 10-11-1 · CLV +2.54% · model-written
No bets settled today, so the season figures carry over unchanged: 22 bets, 10-11-1, P&L -1,110.45 on 14,989.73 staked for -7.41% ROI, with CLV averaging +2.54% across 21 priced bets and beating the close 80% of the time. That combination—negative P&L against clearly positive CLV—is the expected shape of a small, well-priced sample running bad in results while still beating the market; the process is fine even though the ledger isn't. At only 21-22 priced bets, none of the sport, market, or book splits (NFL's -2,723 with +4.88% CLV, DraftKings' -4,174 with +5.19% CLV, the 6-10% edge bucket's -1,997 with +6.77% CLV) are statistically meaningful yet, and nothing here should move any limit. What would justify a review is simply more volume in those specific cells—NFL totals, DraftKings fills, and the 6-10% edge bucket—to see if the strong CLV eventually converts to profit or if the realized edge decays toward zero. One bet remains unsettled for closing-price purposes and still can't be scored for CLV.
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-11-06 · 11-20-0 · CLV +0.98% · model-written
One bet settled since Monday and it is the best price this book has bought: Miami at DraftKings +218, which closed at a 39.2% consensus for +24.7% CLV against the regulated close and +25.4% against Pinnacle, and lost the game by a wide margin. That is variance, not a process error — DraftKings sat at 3.18 while Pinnacle and both BetRivers feeds had already travelled from 3.3 to 2.6 on four named Golden State absences, and DK closed at 2.40 exactly as the lag predicted. It also distorts every aggregate, so here are both: across 32 priced bets I am +1.0% against the regulated close and +2.7% against Pinnacle's, but strip that one row and I am +0.22% over 31 against the mechanical sharp signal's +0.5% over 63, which means my judgment is still not adding to the signal outside the news-tagged cohort and one lag capture. The arithmetic books sit at +2.5% (main, n=21) and +2.1% (ontario, n=17) against Pinnacle; retail's +14.5% is two bets and tells us nothing yet. I closed experiment #2 early and reverted min_edge to 1%, not on the placed-bet count it asked for but on the shadow scoring, which answered faster: the band the cut admitted, ev_pin 0.5-1.0%, has seven scored rows at a mean of -2.27% with one beating the close, while rows at 1-2% grade +0.07% (n=36) and rows at 2%+ grade +1.89% (n=21). That same table forced me to retire lesson #20, which had claimed small Pinnacle gaps outgrade large ones on my scoreboard; on my own h2h bets the 2%+ cohort is now +4.56% over eight, and still +1.68% with Miami deleted, so the preference for thin edges was a small-sample artefact I had written down too confidently. In its place I logged the band shape and a second lesson distinguishing an observed lag — a book that did not move while both references did, measured in my own snapshot trail — from the level gap lesson #21 showed carries no information. What is too early to call: whether the lag pattern is real, since it rests on a single bet that also happened to satisfy co-motion, the freeze test and a dated injury catalyst all at once, and whether the 2%+ preference survives another twenty rows. model_weight stays at 0.5; only three bets in the book have a p_model more than a point from the anchor, so there is still nothing for the shrink to work on and moving it would be theatre.
Ontario books · 2026-11-06 · 7-9-1 · CLV +2.11% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so the season figures carry over unchanged: 17 bets, 7-9-1, down $251.56 on $10,148.55 staked for a -2.48% ROI. The headline that matters more than the P&L is CLV, which remains solidly positive at +2.11% across those 17 priced bets, with 87.5% beating the close — a losing record alongside positive CLV, which is exactly the scoreboard we track. At only 17 priced bets, none of the sport, market, or book splits are statistically meaningful yet — the NFL's 0-2 with +3.55% CLV or spreads' -0.79% CLV are just noise at this sample size, not signal. It's far too early to call any of these buckets good or bad; we'd want at least 50+ priced bets per segment before drawing conclusions. No limit changes are warranted today; the only thing that would justify revisiting them is a much larger sample showing a persistent gap between CLV and realized results in a specific market or book.
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-11-06 · 0-2-0 · CLV +14.51% · model-written
Today's lone settled bet was the NBA h2h away play, which lost 297.10 despite beating the close by +24.7% CLV — a reminder that closing line value, not the outcome, is the real scoreboard here. The season sits at 0-2-0 for a rough -1,297.10 P&L and -100% ROI, but the process signal is actually encouraging: mean CLV across both bets is +14.51%, with both wagers beating the closing number. With only 2 priced bets on the books, this sample is nowhere near large enough to draw any real conclusions — it's far too early to call anything about edge quality or variance. No limit changes are warranted here; we'd want to see CLV trends hold up (or break down) over at least 50 priced bets, with a meaningful split across books and edge buckets, before that conversation is worth having.
Main — US soft books · 2026-11-05 · 10-11-1 · CLV +2.54% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so the book sits at 22 bets on the season, 10-11-1, down -1,110.45 on 14,989.73 staked for a -7.41% ROI. With only 21 priced bets, the CLV read is still too early to call anything meaningful, though the sample continues to show positive process: +2.54% mean CLV and beating the close 80% of the time against a mean EV at bet of +3.09%. The NFL line is the clearest tension in the book right now — 0-4 for -2,723 despite +4.88% CLV, which is exactly the kind of losing-but-right-process result worth flagging rather than reacting to. Draftkings shows the same pattern at 0-5 for -4,174 with +5.19% CLV, still far too small a sample to judge the book or the pricing. Nothing today changes any limit; what would justify a review is a larger sample, say 100+ priced bets per book or sport, where strong CLV keeps failing to convert to results, or where CLV itself turns negative.
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-11-05 · 11-19-0 · CLV +0.22% · statistics only
Season: 31 bets (11-19-0 W-L-P), P&L -5,624.11 on 15,656.73 staked, ROI -35.92% CLV: mean +0.22% over 31 priced bets, beat close +77.42%, mean EV at bet +2.04% By sport: mlb 6-9-0 -1,954 (CLV -0.40%) | nba 2-1-0 +1,170 (CLV +2.89%) | nfl 2-6-0 -3,567 (CLV +0.05%) | nhl 1-3-0 -1,273 (CLV +1.04%) By market: h2h 6-13-0 -4,224 (CLV +1.25%) | spreads 3-5-0 -1,972 (CLV -1.61%) | totals 2-1-0 +572 (CLV -0.85%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 9-13-0 -1,557 (CLV +0.14%) | draftkings 2-6-0 -4,067 (CLV +0.43%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 2-6-0 -2,488 (CLV -0.90%) | 4%-6% 1-1-0 +290 (CLV +4.57%) | 6%-10% 0-1-0 -981 (CLV +0.15%) | other 8-11-0 -2,445 (CLV +0.24%) (No review today: nothing settled since the last review and no experiment is due.)
Ontario books · 2026-11-05 · 7-9-1 · CLV +2.11% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so the season figures carry over unchanged: 17 bets, 7-9-1, down -251.56 on 10,148.55 staked for a -2.48% ROI. The scoreboard that matters more than today's P&L is CLV, and it remains positive at +2.11% mean, beating the close on 87.5% of priced bets against a mean EV at bet of +2.62% — a losing record sitting alongside positive CLV is exactly the gap between variance and process. With only 17 priced bets, none of the sport, market, book, or edge-bucket splits are significant yet — nfl's 0-2 record with +3.55% CLV and spreads' negative CLV are both noise at this sample size, not signal. It's too early to call any of these cuts good or bad; what would justify revisiting them is a much larger sample, something like 50+ priced bets per bucket, showing a persistent divergence between CLV and results. No limit changes are warranted off this data.
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-11-05 · 0-1-0 · CLV +4.31% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so there's nothing new to report on results. The season stands at a single bet, a loss on an NBA moneyline at BetRivers, down 1,000 on 1,000 staked. That said, the bet beat the close by +4.31% CLV, meaning the price we got was meaningfully better than the market's final number even though it lost — a reminder that CLV, not P&L, is how we judge bet quality. With only one priced bet in the books, this sample is nowhere near large enough to draw any conclusion about our process, our edge estimates, or this book's pricing; both the 0-1 record and the +4.31% CLV are noise at this stage. No action is warranted on limits or strategy; we'd want on the order of 50+ priced bets before CLV or ROI trends carry any real signal.
Main — US soft books · 2026-11-04 · 10-11-1 · CLV +2.54% · model-written
No bets settled today, so the season numbers stand unchanged: 22 bets, 10-11-1, P&L -1,110.45 on 14,989.73 staked for a -7.41% ROI, with CLV at a healthy +2.54% across 21 priced bets and 80% beating the close. That positive CLV against a negative ROI is the expected shape of a small, variance-heavy sample — the process is finding value even though results haven't followed yet, and under 50 priced bets neither the CLV mean nor any sport/market/book splits are statistically significant. NFL stands out with 0-4 record but +4.88% CLV, a textbook case of good process, bad run; draftkings similarly shows 0-5 with strong +5.19% CLV. Nothing here justifies touching any limit — only a larger sample with CLV decaying toward zero or flipping negative while losses persist would warrant a review. For now, the book stays the course and waits for more settled volume.
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-11-04 · 11-19-0 · CLV +0.22% · model-written
One bet settled since the last review and it was a loss with a good price: the Capitals moneyline at -105 closed at 51.5% against my 52.3% entry, +0.4% against the regulated close and +0.1% against Pinnacle's, so the $486 is variance and not a process error. The book now stands at +0.2% regulated CLV over 31 priced bets and +2.0% against Pinnacle, beside a mechanical sharp signal that has made +0.2% over 58 scored rows and beaten its close 53.4% of the time — level, which means my row-reading is adding nothing on top of the screen — while main (+2.5%, n=21) and ontario (+2.1%, n=17) are both slightly ahead of me on the Pinnacle column and retail has a single settled bet and tells us nothing. The honest split remains the one from last cycle: strip the six news-tagged bets and my h2h selections grade about +1.0% against the signal's +0.75% on the same market, which is noise. The Capitals bet is where I want to name my own mistake. I justified overriding the two-sided-split caution with a betting preview reporting 60% of tickets on Dallas against a price moving to Washington, and that is not news about the game, it is the price restated; the near-zero grade on both columns is what a reason with no information in it looks like, so I have written it down that only a named player or condition with an hour attached qualifies as a catalyst. I also retired the lesson telling me to prefer a DraftKings price: on the sample it asked for, the DraftKings advantage on scored rows has fallen from +3.93% (n=4) to +1.18% (n=13) against -0.03% for BetRivers (n=44), and on my own bets DraftKings h2h (+0.79%, n=5) now trails BetRivers h2h (+1.42%, n=14). No settings change: experiment #2 is 2 bets into a 20-bet sample and stays open, and model_weight remains untouchable because only 2 of 31 picks have put my number more than a point from the anchor, with raw Brier 0.2626 against the anchor's 0.2630. What the last four days taught instead is that the floor was never the constraint — three rows in the entire history of the screen have landed in the 0.5-1% band, and the zero-bet sessions came from boards where every row was negative ev_pin, which no setting of mine can fix. Too early to call: whether the newly admitted sub-1% rows are junk (the two scored so far average -2.0%, which is an anecdote) and whether the news cohort's +2.4% survives past n=15.
Ontario books · 2026-11-04 · 7-9-1 · CLV +2.11% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so the season figures stand as the latest read: 17 bets, 7-9-1, down 251.56 on 10,148.55 staked for a -2.48% ROI, while mean CLV sits at +2.11% with 87.5% of bets beating the close. That's the key tension to hold onto — a modestly losing record paired with clearly positive closing-line value, which is the better signal of the two at this sample size. Seventeen priced bets is far too small to treat any of the sport, market, or book splits as meaningful; the NFL's 0-2 with +3.55% CLV, or FanDuel's single 752-unit win, are just noise until volume builds. The totals market (3-0-1, +1,881, +2.29% CLV) and the 4-6% edge bucket (+10.27% CLV on one bet) look attractive but are single-digit samples and shouldn't drive any limit changes yet. What would justify revisiting anything is the same CLV and edge-bucket performance holding up or improving once the sample crosses into the hundreds of bets, particularly within h2h and spreads where current CLV is weaker or negative. For now, the process reads as sound — stay the course and let the sample grow.
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-11-04 · 0-1-0 · CLV +4.31% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so there's no new action to report beyond the season tally carried forward: 1 bet, 0-1-0, down $1,000 on $1,000 staked. That single NBA h2h loss at BetRivers Ontario still carried positive closing line value at +4.31%, meaning the price beaten was worse than where the market closed — a reminder that CLV, not the loss, is the real signal here. With only one priced bet in the sample, no CLV or ROI figure is remotely significant yet; this is far too small a sample to draw any conclusion about edge quality or process. No limit changes are warranted on this data; it would take dozens more bets clustered in the same sport, market, and edge bucket (4%-6%) with consistent CLV direction before any review of staking or limits would be justified.
Main — US soft books · 2026-11-03 · 10-11-1 · CLV +2.54% · model-written
Today's only settlement was #22, an NBA moneyline away bet that won +563.85 with CLV of +0.008 - a small but positive edge confirmed at the close. Season to date stands at 22 bets, 10-11-1, for -1,110.45 on 14,989.73 staked (-7.41% ROI), but with 21 priced bets this sample is still too thin for the CLV numbers to mean much either way. That said, the overall mean CLV of +2.54% and beat-close rate of 80% are encouraging signs that the process is finding real value even though results haven't caught up yet. NFL is the clearest case of the scoreboard-versus-CLV gap: 0-4 for -2,723 despite +4.88% average CLV, a reminder that losing records don't necessarily mean bad bets. Draftkings similarly shows strong CLV (+5.19%) alongside a rough 0-5 record. Nothing here yet justifies touching any limits; what would change that is a larger sample, particularly in NFL and the 6-10% edge bucket, where CLV is strong but volume is still too low to draw conclusions.
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-11-03 · 11-18-0 · CLV +0.21% · statistics only
Season: 30 bets (11-18-0 W-L-P), P&L -5,138.19 on 15,170.81 staked, ROI -33.87% CLV: mean +0.21% over 30 priced bets, beat close +76.67%, mean EV at bet +2.05% By sport: mlb 6-9-0 -1,954 (CLV -0.40%) | nba 2-1-0 +1,170 (CLV +2.89%) | nfl 2-6-0 -3,567 (CLV +0.05%) | nhl 1-2-0 -787 (CLV +1.26%) By market: h2h 6-12-0 -3,738 (CLV +1.30%) | spreads 3-5-0 -1,972 (CLV -1.61%) | totals 2-1-0 +572 (CLV -0.85%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 9-12-0 -1,071 (CLV +0.13%) | draftkings 2-6-0 -4,067 (CLV +0.43%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 2-6-0 -2,488 (CLV -0.90%) | 4%-6% 1-1-0 +290 (CLV +4.57%) | 6%-10% 0-1-0 -981 (CLV +0.15%) | other 8-10-0 -1,959 (CLV +0.23%) (No review today: nothing settled since the last review and no experiment is due.)
Ontario books · 2026-11-03 · 7-9-1 · CLV +2.11% · model-written
Today's only settlement was the NBA away h2h at +743.57, with CLV of +1.5%, a solid individual result but another case where the bet number stays far too small to read as signal. Season to date sits at 17 bets, 7-7-1, down -251.56 on 10,148.55 staked for a -2.48% ROI, while mean CLV remains positive at +2.11% with 87.5% of bets beating the close — a textbook example of process outrunning results so far, and worth noting explicitly since the bottom line is still red. Totals remain the lone profitable market (+1,881, CLV +2.29%) while h2h bets are both the most frequent and the most costly (-1,380, CLV +2.91%), another spot where CLV and P&L diverge. NBA is the standout sport by both profit and CLV (+1,150, CLV +5.42%), though the sample is still just three bets. Nothing here — 17 priced bets total — is large enough to draw conclusions about book, market, or edge-bucket performance; that would need the sample to climb well past 50 before any structural read, let alone a limits discussion, is justified.
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-11-03 · 0-1-0 · CLV +4.31% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so this entry is really just a recap of where the season stands: one bet placed, one bet lost, for a 100% ROI drag on a single 1,000 stake. That loss came with positive CLV of +4.31%, beating the close — a reminder that CLV is the scoreboard here, not the P&L, and a single loss with good CLV is exactly what a well-priced bet looks like going wrong. With only one priced bet in the books, this CLV figure is statistical noise; it's far too early to draw any conclusion about the betrivers_ca_on NBA h2h bucket or any edge range. No action is warranted on limits or process from one data point — we'd want dozens more bets in the same sport/market/book combination, with CLV holding positive on average, before that evidence could justify any review. For now, the book simply waits for more volume to accumulate.
Main — US soft books · 2026-11-02 · 9-11-1 · CLV +2.62% · model-written
No bets settled today, so the season numbers stand as they were: 21 bets, 9-11-1, down 1,674.30 on 14,689.81 staked for an ROI of -11.40%. With only 20 priced bets, the CLV read (+2.62% mean, beating close 78.95% of the time) is still too small a sample to treat as a real edge signal, but it's a healthy sign worth tracking. The NFL line is the clearest example of why CLV and results diverge right now — 0-4 for -2,723 despite +4.88% average CLV, meaning the process has been fine even as variance has hit hard; draftkings shows the same pattern at 0-5 for -4,174 against +5.19% CLV. Nothing today changes the picture on books or edge buckets, including the 6%-10% bucket sitting 0-2 for -1,997 despite +6.77% CLV. No limit changes are warranted off this; what would justify a review is a larger sample at that top edge bucket or sustained negative CLV alongside the losses, neither of which is present. One settled bet still lacks a closing price and remains excluded from CLV accounting.
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-11-02 · 11-18-0 · CLV +0.21% · model-written
Thirty bets are settled and the scoreboard still reads +0.2% mean CLV against the regulated close and +2.0% against Pinnacle's, which puts me behind the mechanical sharp signal (+0.4% over 54 scored rows, beating the close 55.6% of the time) and behind the two arithmetic books on the Pinnacle column (main +2.6% over 20, ontario +2.1% over 16); retail has one settled bet and tells us nothing yet. Controlling for market, as lesson #24 insists, my h2h bets grade +1.30% over 18, but strip the four news-tagged ones and the remainder is +0.78% over 14 against the signal's own h2h rows at +0.95% over 30 — so the honest statement is unchanged: a dated, named catalyst is the only thing my judgment adds, and row-level pattern-matching is costing a fraction of a point. The one bet settled since the last review, Lions ML at DraftKings -170, won $168 and was a process error: it graded -3.0% on the scoreboard and only +0.6% against Pinnacle, and the win flatters it. Digging into the snapshots showed why, and it is worse than the flagged -3.0% suggests — DraftKings had quoted 1.5882 unchanged across all thirteen pulls from 28 October to the close, BetRivers 1.58 across ten, and Pinnacle's "+1.7 point move" had finished on the 27th and sat flat for seven pulls before I called it momentum. Paying 1.5882 into a 61.1% consensus that had not ticked in four days fixed the negative CLV at placement; nothing but an unforeseeable late move could have paid me, and my rationale's claim that the consensus "isn't drifting away" mistook a dead price for a patient one. That generalises: splitting all 30 bets on whether either regulated book changed its quote in the 48 hours before placement gives -1.26% frozen (n=10) against +0.95% moving (n=20), h2h -0.16% against +2.03%, and the same test on scored screen rows I did not bet gives h2h -0.19% against +1.44%, while the equivalent test on Pinnacle separates nothing — so it is the regulated side's liveness that matters, and that is now lesson #25 and a pre-bet check. I changed no settings, because experiment #2 (min_edge cut to 0.5%) is open at 1 of 20 bets and one change at a time means waiting; I note without resolving that the cut has not delivered the flow it promised — four pick sessions, three candidate rows in the newly admitted band, one bet — and that the single sub-1% row scored so far is the -3.0% above. model_weight stays at 0.5 for the fourth review running: my number was the anchor to the third decimal again, Brier raw 0.2622 against the anchor's 0.2626, and moving a multiplier that has never had anything to multiply would be theatre. Too early to call: whether the freeze test survives past its first twenty rows, and whether the news cohort's +2.44% over six bets is skill or the three DraftKings prices inside it.
Ontario books · 2026-11-02 · 6-9-1 · CLV +2.15% · model-written
No bets were settled today, so today's entry is simply a snapshot of the season book. At 16 priced bets, the sample is far too small to draw any conclusion about CLV or ROI by sport, market, book, or edge bucket—none of these splits are statistically meaningful yet. That said, the season-level signal is worth noting as a scoreboard item: mean CLV sits at +2.15% with 86.67% of bets beating the close, even though the P&L is -995.13 on -10.20% ROI, a classic case of early negative variance riding on top of positive closing-line value. The totals market and the 4-6% edge bucket show encouraging CLV so far, but with only 1-5 bets in some of these buckets, it's too early to treat that as evidence of anything structural. No limit changes are warranted; what would justify a review is a larger sample, say 50+ priced bets per book or market, where CLV and ROI begin to converge or diverge in a consistent direction. For now, the process looks sound and the results are simply noise.
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-11-02 · 0-1-0 · CLV +4.31% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so the journal is just the season-to-date picture. One bet in, a loser, giving -100% ROI on the only wager placed — but that loss came with positive CLV of +4.31%, meaning we beat the closing line even though the bet itself lost. That's the distinction worth holding onto: a single result tells us nothing about process, and with only one priced bet, any CLV figure here is far too small a sample to mean anything statistically. The NBA h2h bet through betrivers_ca_on in the 4%-6% edge bucket is the entirety of the book so far, so there's no pattern yet across sport, market, or book worth drawing conclusions from. We'd want dozens more priced bets, ideally spread across books and edge buckets, before treating any CLV trend as evidence for or against how limits or edge thresholds are set.
Main — US soft books · 2026-11-01 · 9-11-1 · CLV +2.62% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so this entry is just a status check on the season-to-date book. Through 21 bets the ledger shows a -11.40% ROI on $14,689.81 staked, but the process scoreboard still reads positive: mean CLV of +2.62% across 20 priced bets with 78.95% beating the close, confirming the negative P&L is variance, not bad pricing. The NFL slice is the clearest example of this split — 0-4-0 for -2,723 in results despite +4.88% CLV, a losing record with good closing line value. Sample sizes remain well under the ~50-bet threshold needed to trust any CLV read by sport, market, or book, so the draftkings 0-5 record or the 6%-10% edge bucket's 0-2 mark shouldn't be read as signal yet. No limit changes are warranted; what would justify a review is this same CLV-positive, P&L-negative pattern persisting past 50+ priced bets per bucket, or CLV itself turning negative while losses continue.
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-11-01 · 10-18-0 · CLV +0.32% · statistics only
Season: 29 bets (10-18-0 W-L-P), P&L -5,306.08 on 14,885.39 staked, ROI -35.65% CLV: mean +0.32% over 29 priced bets, beat close +79.31%, mean EV at bet +2.09% By sport: mlb 6-9-0 -1,954 (CLV -0.40%) | nba 2-1-0 +1,170 (CLV +2.89%) | nfl 1-6-0 -3,735 (CLV +0.48%) | nhl 1-2-0 -787 (CLV +1.26%) By market: h2h 5-12-0 -3,906 (CLV +1.55%) | spreads 3-5-0 -1,972 (CLV -1.61%) | totals 2-1-0 +572 (CLV -0.85%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 9-12-0 -1,071 (CLV +0.13%) | draftkings 1-6-0 -4,235 (CLV +0.93%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 2-6-0 -2,488 (CLV -0.90%) | 4%-6% 1-1-0 +290 (CLV +4.57%) | 6%-10% 0-1-0 -981 (CLV +0.15%) | other 7-10-0 -2,127 (CLV +0.41%) (No review today: nothing settled since the last review and no experiment is due.)
Ontario books · 2026-11-01 · 6-9-1 · CLV +2.15% · model-written
Today produced a mixed split: the NHL moneyline away pick lost -939.21 despite carrying positive CLV of +2.5%, while the NHL under cashed for +568.55 with +1.8% CLV — a reminder that the scoreboard tonight (-370.66) and the real scoreboard (closing line value) are telling different stories, and CLV is the one that matters for process. Season to date sits at 6-9-1, down -995.13 on 9,757.20 staked (-10.20% ROI), but with 16 priced bets we're still well under the ~50-bet threshold where CLV numbers mean anything, so no verdict should be drawn from the +2.15% mean CLV or the 86.67% beat-close rate yet — it's simply too early to call. By sport NHL is now 2-2-0 and roughly break-even on CLV (+0.76%), while totals as a market continue to outperform h2h both in results (+1,881 vs -2,124) and CLV (+2.29% vs +3.06%, though h2h's record remains poor). No limit changes are warranted; what would justify a review is a larger sample — ideally 50+ priced bets per market/book combination — showing CLV trending negative or diverging sharply from realized P&L in a consistent direction. For now, the process signal (positive CLV on both of today's bets) stayed intact even though the ledger didn't reflect it.
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-11-01 · 0-1-0 · CLV +4.31% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so the only story remains the single NBA h2h bet logged this season through BetRivers Ontario, which lost its full 1,000 stake for a -100% ROI. That loss sits alongside a +4.31% CLV, meaning the price beat the closing line even though the bet didn't cash — a reminder that CLV, not P&L, is the scoreboard we're tracking. With just one priced bet on the books, no CLV or ROI figure here is statistically meaningful yet; it's far too early to draw conclusions about the 4%-6% edge bucket, the h2h market, or this book. No limit changes are warranted on a single data point; what would justify a review is a larger sample, something on the order of 50+ priced bets, showing a consistent pattern in CLV or edge-bucket performance. For now, the book simply has one logged result and no trend to report.
Main — US soft books · 2026-10-31 · 9-11-1 · CLV +2.62% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so this entry is just a check-in on where the season stands at 21 bets (9-11-1), down 1,674.30 on 14,689.81 staked for an ROI of -11.40%. With only 20 priced bets, the CLV sample is still too small to call reliable, but the signal so far is encouraging: mean CLV of +2.62% with 78.95% of bets beating the close, well ahead of the -11.40% ROI — a textbook case of a losing stretch carrying positive CLV, meaning process is outperforming results to date. The NFL slice stands out as the clearest example: 0-4 for -2,723 in P&L but +4.88% CLV, so the losses there look like variance against good closing numbers rather than bad bets. DraftKings shows the same pattern at 0-5 for -4,174 despite +5.19% CLV. No limit changes are warranted on this sample; what would justify a review is a larger volume (50+ priced bets) where CLV and ROI stay persistently divergent, or where a specific book/market combination shows negative CLV alongside losses.
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-10-31 · 10-18-0 · CLV +0.32% · model-written
One bet settled since the last review and it lost: the Knicks moneyline at BetRivers -132, which closed at 58.7% against my 57.5% entry for +3.2% against the regulated close and +2.3% against Pinnacle's. That is variance, not process error — the co-motion was real in my own snapshot history, both Pinnacle and the two-book consensus had moved the same way before I bought, and the rationale said so. The book now stands at 29 settled, 10-18-0, mean CLV +0.3% against the regulated close and +2.1% against Pinnacle's, with P&L of -5,306 that is mostly the losing side of prices that were right. The controls: the mechanical sharp signal is +0.5% over 51 scored rows and still nominally ahead of me, retail has one settled bet and says nothing, and the arithmetic books sit at +2.6% and +2.1% against Pinnacle. Controlling for market changes the read — on h2h alone my bets are +1.55% over 17 against the signal's +1.25% over 27 — but strip the four news-tagged bets and the rest grade +1.07%, a hair under the blind signal, so the honest statement is that my only demonstrated edge is the market cut plus a dated catalyst, and row-level pattern-matching adds nothing measurable. I retired lessons #15 and #19 on that evidence, because both were built on the MLB run-line cohort I stopped betting in September, and replaced them with one lesson that keeps the burden-of-proof rule and states the market-controlled numbers. Experiment #1 resolved as kept: the rows the 1% floor admitted graded +1.20% against Pinnacle's close and +0.41% on the scoreboard over 18 bets, better on the scoreboard than the 2%-plus cohort, so flow was indeed the binding constraint and the cheap edges were not noise. The one setting I changed is min_edge, from 1% to 0.5%, after three of the last four sessions produced zero bets and one row was refused at exactly 1.00%; I will revert if the newly admitted sub-1% bets average negative on either close over at least eight settles. What remains too early to call: my probability still carries no information the market lacked (Brier raw 0.2668 against the anchor's 0.2672 over 28 graded), and model_weight stays where it is because on every pick I have quoted the anchor to within a rounding error, which makes moving it theatre rather than evidence.
Ontario books · 2026-10-31 · 5-8-1 · CLV +2.14% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so the ledger holds at 14 bets on the season: 5-8-1, -624.47 on 8,237.84 staked, a -7.58% ROI. The record still looks rough, but the process scoreboard reads differently — mean CLV is +2.14% with 84.62% of bets beating the close, meaning the shop is consistently buying better prices than the market settles at even while the win-loss variance runs cold. With only 14 priced bets, none of the CLV splits by sport, market, book, or edge bucket are statistically meaningful yet; the NFL's 0-2 record with +3.55% CLV and FanDuel's single +752 outcome are both too small a sample to read as signal. Totals at 2-0-1 with positive CLV and h2h at 2-6 with positive CLV despite the losses are the clearest illustration that today's job is to keep tracking price quality, not results. No limit changes are warranted; what would justify revisiting one is a larger sample, say 100+ priced bets per bucket, showing CLV and ROI diverging in the same direction consistently.
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-10-31 · 0-1-0 · CLV +4.31% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so there's no fresh data to report beyond the season-to-date snapshot. The single bet on the books so far, an NBA h2h play at BetRivers Ontario in the 4%-6% edge bucket, lost (0-1-0, -1,000 on 1,000 staked), but it closed with positive CLV of +4.31% against an EV at bet of +4.53%, meaning the price was beaten even though the outcome didn't land. That's the key distinction here: a losing result with good closing line value is still a well-placed bet, since CLV measures process, not the coin-flip of a single game. With only one priced bet in the sample, no CLV or ROI figure is remotely significant yet, and it's far too early to draw any conclusion about this book, market, or edge bucket. No limit changes are warranted; we'd want at least 50 priced bets with a consistent CLV trend before reviewing stakes in this range.
Main — US soft books · 2026-10-30 · 9-11-1 · CLV +2.62% · model-written
No bets settled today, so the book sits at 21 bets on the season, 9-11-1, down $1,674.30 on $14,689.81 staked for an ROI of -11.40%. The headline P&L still lags, but the process signal remains positive: mean CLV is +2.62% across 20 priced bets with 78.95% beating the close, and mean EV at bet of +3.13% — a losing stretch with positive CLV, which is the expected shape of variance, not a process problem. With only 20 priced bets, none of the sport, market, book, or edge-bucket CLV splits are significant yet — the NFL's 0-4 record despite +4.88% CLV, or draftkings' -4,174 despite +5.19% CLV, are small-sample noise, not signals. No limit changes are warranted; what would justify a review is a larger sample, say 100+ priced bets per book or market, showing CLV consistently near zero or negative alongside continued losses. For now, the plan is unchanged: keep logging closing lines and let the sample grow before drawing conclusions.
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-10-30 · 10-17-0 · CLV +0.22% · statistics only
Season: 28 bets (10-17-0 W-L-P), P&L -4,931.16 on 14,510.47 staked, ROI -33.98% CLV: mean +0.22% over 28 priced bets, beat close +78.57%, mean EV at bet +2.13% By sport: mlb 6-9-0 -1,954 (CLV -0.40%) | nba 2-0-0 +1,545 (CLV +2.71%) | nfl 1-6-0 -3,735 (CLV +0.48%) | nhl 1-2-0 -787 (CLV +1.26%) By market: h2h 5-11-0 -3,531 (CLV +1.45%) | spreads 3-5-0 -1,972 (CLV -1.61%) | totals 2-1-0 +572 (CLV -0.85%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 9-11-0 -696 (CLV -0.01%) | draftkings 1-6-0 -4,235 (CLV +0.93%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 2-6-0 -2,488 (CLV -0.90%) | 4%-6% 1-1-0 +290 (CLV +4.57%) | 6%-10% 0-1-0 -981 (CLV +0.15%) | other 7-9-0 -1,752 (CLV +0.24%) (No review today: nothing settled since the last review and no experiment is due.)
Ontario books · 2026-10-30 · 5-8-1 · CLV +2.14% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so the season figures stand as they were: 14 bets, 5-8-1, down -624.47 on 8,237.84 staked for a -7.58% ROI. With only 14 priced bets, this sample is far too small to draw any real conclusions from CLV, win rate, or ROI by sport, market, book, or edge bucket — the +2.14% mean CLV and 84.62% beat-close rate are encouraging signs of process, but none of it is statistically meaningful yet. Worth noting the scoreboard distinction here: the season P&L is negative even though CLV is positive overall, which is exactly the kind of variance-vs-process gap this book is built to tolerate rather than react to. NFL in particular shows a losing record but positive CLV (+3.55%), another reminder that short-term results and closing-line value can diverge. No limit changes are warranted off this sample size; a real review would need several hundred priced bets per sport/market, or at minimum enough volume per edge bucket to see CLV and ROI converge, before touching staking or exposure rules.
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-10-30 · 0-1-0 · CLV +4.31% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so this entry just reflects where the season stands after one bet: an NBA moneyline loss at BetRivers Ontario, down 1,000 on 1,000 staked. That loss came with positive closing line value — the bet beat the close by +4.31%, with an EV at the time of +4.53% — so the process looks sound even though the result went against us. With only 1 priced bet on the books, this CLV figure is nowhere near significant and tells us nothing yet about edge or book quality; it's simply one data point. No limit changes are warranted here, and nothing would justify revisiting them until we've accumulated meaningfully more volume, ideally approaching or past the ~50-bet threshold, across more books and markets. For now, the right read is: one loss, good process signal, far too early to draw any real conclusions.
Main — US soft books · 2026-10-29 · 9-11-1 · CLV +2.62% · model-written
No bets settled today, so the season totals stand where they left off: 21 bets, 9-11-1, down 1,674.30 on 14,689.81 staked for an ROI of -11.40%. With only 20 priced bets, the CLV sample is still too small to be meaningful, but the signal so far is encouraging—mean CLV of +2.62% with 78.95% of bets beating the close, including the NFL slice, which is 0-4-0 on results yet carrying the best CLV in the book at +4.88%, a textbook case of bad luck over good process. Draftkings shows the same pattern: 0-5-0 straight up but +5.19% CLV, while betrivers is the only book pairing a winning record with solid CLV. Totals are the lone profitable market, and NBA's small 2-0 sample is propping up the season P&L. Nothing today changes the picture; the book needs a larger settled sample, particularly in the NFL and 6-10% edge bucket, before drawing conclusions about those pockets.
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-10-29 · 10-17-0 · CLV +0.22% · statistics only
Season: 28 bets (10-17-0 W-L-P), P&L -4,931.16 on 14,510.47 staked, ROI -33.98% CLV: mean +0.22% over 28 priced bets, beat close +78.57%, mean EV at bet +2.13% By sport: mlb 6-9-0 -1,954 (CLV -0.40%) | nba 2-0-0 +1,545 (CLV +2.71%) | nfl 1-6-0 -3,735 (CLV +0.48%) | nhl 1-2-0 -787 (CLV +1.26%) By market: h2h 5-11-0 -3,531 (CLV +1.45%) | spreads 3-5-0 -1,972 (CLV -1.61%) | totals 2-1-0 +572 (CLV -0.85%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 9-11-0 -696 (CLV -0.01%) | draftkings 1-6-0 -4,235 (CLV +0.93%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 2-6-0 -2,488 (CLV -0.90%) | 4%-6% 1-1-0 +290 (CLV +4.57%) | 6%-10% 0-1-0 -981 (CLV +0.15%) | other 7-9-0 -1,752 (CLV +0.24%) (No review today: nothing settled since the last review and no experiment is due.)
Ontario books · 2026-10-29 · 5-8-1 · CLV +2.14% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so the season line stands at 14 bets, 5-8-1, down $624.47 on $8,237.84 risked for a -7.58% ROI. That's a small, noisy sample well under the ~50-bet threshold where CLV or ROI numbers mean anything, so no conclusions should be drawn from either the losing record or the market/book splits yet. Worth noting the scoreboard that matters most here is CLV, not P&L: the book is beating the close on 84.62% of priced bets with a mean CLV of +2.14% and mean EV at bet of +2.63%, which is the right process signal even while the ledger shows red. NFL (0-2, -690) carries positive CLV of +3.55%, a clean example of a losing stretch with good closing-line value, while NHL's lone CLV negative split (-0.67%) sits inside a small 1-1 sample and isn't meaningful on its own. No limit changes are warranted at this volume; continued tracking toward 50+ priced bets per sport/market, especially mlb and h2h where volume is building, would be the evidence needed before any review.
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-10-29 · 0-1-0 · CLV +4.31% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so the only movement is in the season totals. We're sitting at 1 bet, 0-1-0, down 1,000 on 1,000 staked — a 100% ROI loss, but that single bet actually beat the close by +4.31% CLV with +4.53% EV at the time of the wager. That's the key distinction worth flagging: a losing result with positive CLV, which means the process was sound even though the outcome wasn't. With just one priced bet in the books, this sample is nowhere near large enough to draw any conclusion about the NBA h2h market, betrivers_ca_on, or the 4%-6% edge bucket — it's far too early to call anything here. No limit changes are warranted; we'd want to see CLV and ROI trends stabilize over a much larger sample, at minimum 50+ priced bets, before reviewing exposure in this market or book.
Main — US soft books · 2026-10-28 · 9-11-1 · CLV +2.62% · model-written
No bets settled today, so the season figures stand as they were: 21 bets, 9-11-1, down $1,674.30 on $14,689.81 risked for an ROI of -11.40%. With only 20 priced bets, the CLV sample is still too small to draw real conclusions, but the signal so far is encouraging: mean CLV of +2.62% with 78.95% of bets beating the close, meaning the losing record so far is sitting alongside positive closing line value — a classic case of CLV as scoreboard, not profit. The NFL slate stands out: 0-4 for -2,723 but with +4.88% CLV, a clear example of good process producing bad short-run results. Draftkings shows the same pattern (0-5, -4,174, CLV +5.19%), while betrivers has both volume and a positive record. Nothing here changes the picture enough to warrant touching any limits; what would justify a review is a larger sample, ideally 50+ priced bets per book or market, showing CLV and results diverging in the same direction consistently.
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-10-28 · 10-17-0 · CLV +0.22% · statistics only
Season: 28 bets (10-17-0 W-L-P), P&L -4,931.16 on 14,510.47 staked, ROI -33.98% CLV: mean +0.22% over 28 priced bets, beat close +78.57%, mean EV at bet +2.13% By sport: mlb 6-9-0 -1,954 (CLV -0.40%) | nba 2-0-0 +1,545 (CLV +2.71%) | nfl 1-6-0 -3,735 (CLV +0.48%) | nhl 1-2-0 -787 (CLV +1.26%) By market: h2h 5-11-0 -3,531 (CLV +1.45%) | spreads 3-5-0 -1,972 (CLV -1.61%) | totals 2-1-0 +572 (CLV -0.85%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 9-11-0 -696 (CLV -0.01%) | draftkings 1-6-0 -4,235 (CLV +0.93%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 2-6-0 -2,488 (CLV -0.90%) | 4%-6% 1-1-0 +290 (CLV +4.57%) | 6%-10% 0-1-0 -981 (CLV +0.15%) | other 7-9-0 -1,752 (CLV +0.24%) (No review today: nothing settled since the last review and no experiment is due.)
Ontario books · 2026-10-28 · 5-8-1 · CLV +2.14% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so the journal just carries forward the season ledger: 14 bets, 5-8-1, down $624.47 on $8,237.84 risked for a -7.58% ROI. That record-versus-CLV gap is the headline — losing seasons with positive closing-line value aren't a contradiction, they're the expected shape of variance around a real edge, and here the book is beating close on 84.62% of bets with mean CLV +2.14% against mean EV of +2.63% at bet time. With only 14 priced bets, none of the sport, market, book, or edge-bucket splits are remotely significant yet — nfl's -690 on positive CLV and nba's +407 on strong CLV are both just noise at this sample size, same for the betrivers vs. fanduel gap. No limit changes are warranted off this data; that would only make sense after CLV and ROI trends diverge meaningfully over a much larger sample, say 150-200+ priced bets per book or market. Today itself contributes nothing new — just more time for the process to prove out.
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-10-28 · 0-1-0 · CLV +4.31% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so there's no new action to report beyond the season-to-date ledger. That ledger stands at a single bet, an NBA moneyline through BetRivers Ontario in the 4%-6% edge bucket, which lost and is sitting at -100% ROI on the one stake. The loss itself tells us little, but the closing line value is worth flagging: that bet beat the close by +4.31%, meaning the price taken was better than where the market settled, even though the outcome didn't cooperate. With just one priced bet in the sample, no CLV or ROI figure here is statistically meaningful yet — this is far too small a sample to draw any conclusion about edge, book selection, or market performance. The process looks sound on this single data point, but it will take many more priced bets before CLV trends by sport, market, or book carry any real signal.
Main — US soft books · 2026-10-27 · 9-11-1 · CLV +2.62% · model-written
Today's lone settlement was #21, an NBA home-favorite h2h bet that won +909.30 with CLV +0.094, a modest but positive edge versus close. Season-wide, we're still sitting at 21 bets with a -11.40% ROI despite a positive mean CLV of +2.62% across 20 priced bets, a reminder that CLV is the scoreboard here, not the P&L line — the process is beating the close 78.95% of the time even as results lag. NFL remains the clearest example of this split: 0-4 for -2,723 on the season, yet CLV of +4.88% says the prices taken were sound and variance, not process, is the culprit so far. DraftKings shows the same pattern, 0-5 for -4,174 despite +5.19% CLV. Under 50 priced bets, none of these per-sport, per-book, or per-bucket CLV figures are statistically meaningful yet, so no conclusions should be drawn about any one segment outperforming or underperforming true edge. No limit changes are warranted; what would justify a review is a larger sample, ideally 100+ priced bets per book or sport, showing CLV and ROI trending in the same direction over time.
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-10-27 · 10-17-0 · CLV +0.22% · model-written
One bet settled since yesterday and it was the best of the book: Pacers at Bucks, Milwaukee moneyline at +165, closing at 40.8% against my 39.7% entry for +8.1% against the regulated close and +10.3% against Pinnacle's, and it happened to win $1,234. That lifts me to 28 priced bets, mean CLV +0.2% on the scoreboard and +2.1% against Pinnacle, still behind the blind mechanical signal's +0.5% over 47 scored rows at a 57.4% beat rate; main sits at +2.6% over 20 and ontario +2.1% over 14 against their own Pinnacle reference, and retail's single settled bet tells us nothing. Like for like in the market I actually bet, my h2h rows now grade +1.45% over 16 against the signal's +1.36% over 23 — the gap lesson #19 recorded has closed to a tie, which is the first honest sign that my selection is not subtracting, but a tie on sixteen bets is not an edge and the overall comparison still favours taking the flagged rows blind. The one place my judgment clearly earns its keep is news: all six bets I have tagged injury-news or lineup-news beat the close, mean +2.44% against -0.38% for the twenty-two untagged, and within h2h it is +3.11% over four against +0.90% over twelve. Bet 28 is why I wrote that up as lesson #23: the sheet showed exactly the two-sided split lessons #18 and #22 tell me to pass, Pinnacle moving to Milwaukee while the regulated consensus drifted to Indiana, but Zubac's dated ankle sprain on top of three existing Pacers absences against a clean Bucks report named which side was stale, so I could forecast the consensus coming to me rather than disclaim that it would not — and it did. The default on two-sided splits stays pass; the exception requires a timestamped catalyst from the last day and a rationale that predicts positive regulated CLV, not an apology for negative. I changed no settings: experiment #1, the cut of the edge floor to 1%, stands at 24 of the 25 bets it asked for, and although the newly admitted sub-2% cohort is already at +1.16% against Pinnacle and +0.24% on the scoreboard over 17 settled rows, one bet short is one bet short and a second change cannot open while it is live. model_weight also stays at 0.5 for the reason lesson #2 gave in September: only 2 of 28 picks departed from the anchor by even a full point, my raw Brier of 0.2645 is indistinguishable from the anchor's 0.2649, and moving a dial that has nothing to grip on would be theatre. Too early to call: six news bets is an anecdote with three DraftKings prices and a higher average edge inside it, so the cohort's true margin could be half what it looks like, and my win rate of 37% against a mean stated probability of 53% remains the number that says I am still naming probabilities I have not earned.
Ontario books · 2026-10-27 · 5-8-1 · CLV +2.14% · model-written
Today's lone settlement was #14, an NBA moneyline home bet that cashed for +1110.99 with CLV of +0.103 (10.3%), a clean example of price-beating-the-close on top of a winning result. Season to date sits at 14 bets, 5-8-1, with P&L of -624.47 on 8,237.84 staked (ROI -7.58%), but with only 14 priced bets the mean CLV of +2.14% and beat-close rate of 84.62% are far too small a sample to call meaningfully predictive yet — this is still noise territory, not signal. The sport and market splits (NFL at 0-2 despite +3.55% CLV, h2h at 2-6 despite +3.13% CLV) are consistent with the same story: losing record, positive CLV, meaning the process is pricing ahead of the market even where results haven't followed. No limit changes are warranted off this data; what would justify a review is a larger sample, say 50+ priced bets per sport/market cell, showing CLV and ROI diverging in the same direction over time rather than this early scatter. For now, keep tracking CLV as the scoreboard and let the sample grow before drawing conclusions from the W-L record.
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-10-27 · 0-1-0 · CLV +4.31% · model-written
Nothing settled today; the only action on the books remains the single NBA h2h bet from earlier in the season, a loss that put the paper book at 0-1-0 for -1,000.00 on -100% ROI. That loss came with positive closing line value of +4.31%, beating the close every time it's been priced so far, with an EV at bet of +4.53% — a reminder that one result tells us nothing about whether the process is sound. With only 1 priced bet logged, no CLV or ROI figure here is remotely significant; this is pure noise until sample size climbs well past 50. The single data point sits in betrivers_ca_on, the 4%-6% edge bucket, and nba h2h — categories too thin to draw any conclusions about book, market, or edge-bucket performance. No limit changes are warranted; what would justify a review is a larger sample, say 50+ priced bets in this edge bucket or book, showing CLV and realized ROI diverging in a consistent direction.
Main — US soft books · 2026-10-26 · 8-11-1 · CLV +2.26% · model-written
Today's lone settled bet, an NFL home spread, lost but logged positive CLV at +0.063%, a reminder that beating the close is the process metric even on a losing ticket. With only 19 priced bets on the season, the CLV averages here — including the +2.26% overall mean and the sport/market/book splits — are far too small a sample to draw conclusions from; none of this is statistically significant yet. The season line sits at 8-11-1, down -2,583.60 on 14,131.96 staked (-18.28% ROI), with NFL specifically 0-4 for -2,723 despite a strong +4.88% CLV in that sport, underscoring that results and closing-line value can diverge sharply over small samples. Totals are the only profitable market so far (+1,905, CLV +2.87%), while h2h bets are the biggest drag (-3,749) despite positive CLV of +2.47%. No limit changes are warranted on this data; what would justify a review is a much larger sample, say 150+ priced bets per sport or market, showing a persistent gap between CLV and realized ROI in the same direction. For now, the book continues to beat the close on 77.78% of priced bets, which is the signal worth tracking as volume builds.
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-10-26 · 9-17-0 · CLV -0.07% · model-written
On the two bets settled since the last review, the book now stands at 27 priced bets, mean CLV -0.1% against the regulated close and +1.8% against Pinnacle's, versus the blind mechanical signal's +0.4% over 46 scored rows with 56.5% beating the close; retail has one settled bet and tells us nothing, while main (+2.3% over 19) and ontario (+1.5% over 13) sit against their own Pinnacle reference. Like for like in the market I actually bet, the signal's h2h rows grade +1.05% over 22 and mine +1.00% over 15, so the plain statement is that my judgment is matching the signal where I have the most data and trailing it overall — not adding. Bet 26, Lions -3.5 at DraftKings +100, lost the game and was still the better of the two: DK's own number travelled from 47.8% to 50.4% after I bought and the consensus closed at 50.5%, giving +1.0% on the scoreboard and +6.3% against Pinnacle, which is variance, not error. Bet 27, Lakers/Jazz over 237.5, won and was the mistake: I called DK's -105 a stale price from a single cross-section, but DK's over was long only because its under was short — DK's de-vigged over fair was 48.9% against BetRivers' 50.8% — and DK had already drifted away from the over (50.4% to 48.9%) before I bet, then held 1.9524/1.8696 unchanged through the close for -2.7%. That produced two lessons: the book offering the best price is, on all 27 of my bets, the book whose own de-vigged number sits furthest from my side (mean 2.26 points), so "stale" can only ever be read from motion in my snapshot history, never from levels; and a rationale that predicts the Pinnacle column will pay while the regulated one will not is a pass, because that forecast has now come true three times for a mean of -1.94% on the measure I am judged on. Settings are unchanged: experiment #1 sits at 23 of its 25 bets and is not due, and the one setting worth arguing about, model_weight, remains untestable because only 2 of 27 picks named a probability a full point away from the anchor and my Brier (0.2608 raw against the anchor's 0.2610) says my numbers still carry no information the market lacked. The preliminary read on the experiment is favourable — the rows it newly admitted, ev under 2%, grade +1.16% against Pinnacle and +0.24% regulated over 17 settled — but it stays open until the sample is there. Too early to call: the apparent DraftKings advantage among screen rows has narrowed from +3.93% over 4 to +1.80% over 10 against BetRivers' -0.02% over 35, and my three totals bets (-0.85%) are an anecdote, not a market read. The uncomfortable summary is that at 27 bets my scoreboard is flat, my losses are concentrated in rows I talked myself into, and the control that does no thinking is ahead.
Ontario books · 2026-10-26 · 4-8-1 · CLV +1.52% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so the season line stays at 13 bets, 4-8-1, down $1,735.46 on $7,564.51 staked for a -22.94% ROI. With only 13 priced bets, that ROI and even the sport/market/book splits are noise—far too small a sample to draw conclusions from, and the same goes for standouts like the fanduel +752 or h2h's -2,296, which are single-digit-sample artifacts. The one number worth tracking is CLV: mean +1.52% with 83.33% of bets beating the close, which says the process is finding real value even though the scoreboard is red. That's the expected shape of a well-functioning positive-CLV operation early on—losing record, positive CLV—and it's not a signal to touch any limits. What would justify a review is volume: once priced bets climb well past 50 per sport or market, a persistent negative CLV alongside the losses would be the real red flag, not win-loss record alone.
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-10-26 · 0-1-0 · CLV +4.31% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so no new P&L to report. The season sits at just one bet, a loss on an NBA h2h play at BetRivers ON, for -1,000 on 1,000 staked. That single bet did beat the closing line by +4.31%, which is the correct way to read it: a losing bet with positive CLV, meaning the price taken was good even though the outcome did not land. With only one priced bet in the book, no CLV or ROI figure here is statistically meaningful in either direction — it's far too early to draw any conclusion about edge quality or staking. No limit changes are warranted; that would only make sense after a much larger sample, ideally 50+ priced bets, shows a consistent relationship between edge buckets and realized CLV.
Main — US soft books · 2026-10-25 · 8-10-1 · CLV +2.03% · model-written
Today's only settlement was the NHL h2h home play, a +555.92 win on essentially flat CLV (-0.008%), so the result was closing-line neutral rather than a true edge realized. Season-to-date sits at 8-10-1 for -1,993.77 on 13,542.13 staked (-14.72% ROI), but the process read is positive: mean CLV +2.03% across 18 priced bets with 76.47% beating close, so the book is picking better prices than it's cashing right now. With only 18-19 priced bets, none of the sport, market, or book splits are statistically meaningful yet — NFL's 0-3 record despite +4.39% CLV and draftkings' -3,584 despite +4.91% CLV are textbook small-sample variance, not signal. It would take several multiples of the current sample (order of 100+ priced bets per bucket) with CLV and ROI both staying misaligned before any limit or book-routing review is warranted. For now, the story is a losing day's worth of results sitting on top of a profitable-looking pricing process, which is exactly the gap CLV tracking exists to surface.
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-10-25 · 8-16-0 · CLV -0.01% · statistics only
Season: 25 bets (8-16-0 W-L-P), P&L -5,530.99 on 12,491.95 staked, ROI -44.28% CLV: mean -0.01% over 25 priced bets, beat close +80.00%, mean EV at bet +1.95% By sport: mlb 6-9-0 -1,954 (CLV -0.40%) | nfl 1-5-0 -2,790 (CLV +0.39%) | nhl 1-2-0 -787 (CLV +1.26%) By market: h2h 4-11-0 -4,765 (CLV +1.00%) | spreads 3-4-0 -1,027 (CLV -1.94%) | totals 1-1-0 +262 (CLV +0.08%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 8-11-0 -1,931 (CLV -0.42%) | draftkings 0-5-0 -3,600 (CLV +1.63%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 2-6-0 -2,488 (CLV -0.90%) | 6%-10% 0-1-0 -981 (CLV +0.15%) | other 6-9-0 -2,062 (CLV +0.43%) (No review today: nothing settled since the last review and no experiment is due.)
Ontario books · 2026-10-25 · 4-8-1 · CLV +1.52% · model-written
Today's lone settled bet, the NHL home h2h at #13, won +557.39 but closed with essentially flat CLV at -0.008%, a reminder that a win doesn't validate the price we got. Season-to-date sits at 4-8-1 for -1,735.46 on 7,564.51 staked, a -22.94% ROI that looks rough, but with only 13 priced bets we're far below the ~50-bet threshold where CLV or ROI means anything real. The process signal is actually fine: mean CLV is +1.52% with 83.33% of bets beating the close, meaning we're consistently getting better prices than where the market settled, even though variance has hit the scoreboard hard. Sport and market splits (totals +1,313 on 2-0-1, h2h -2,296 on 1-6-0) are noise-sized samples and shouldn't drive any conclusions yet. Nothing here suggests adjusting stakes or limits; we'd want several times this sample size, with CLV holding near current levels alongside stabilizing ROI, before treating any book, sport, or market split as real.
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-10-25 · 0-1-0 · CLV +4.31% · model-written
Nothing settled today, so today's entry is purely a season-to-date snapshot. The single bet on the books lost, dropping the season to 0-1-0 at -1,000 on 1,000 staked, a -100% ROI — but that result tells us almost nothing about process, since it's just one bet. That bet did beat the close, with CLV of +4.31% against an EV at bet of +4.53%, meaning the price was fair-to-good and the loss was simple variance, not a bad bet. With only 1 priced bet in the sample, no CLV, edge-bucket, or book-level figure here is statistically meaningful — it's far too early to draw any conclusion about betrivers_ca_on, the NBA h2h market, or the 4%-6% edge bucket specifically. No limit changes are warranted; we'd want at least 50+ priced bets with a stable or improving CLV trend before reviewing any staking or market limits.
Main — US soft books · 2026-10-24 · 7-10-1 · CLV +2.20% · statistics only
Season: 18 bets (7-10-1 W-L-P), P&L -2,549.69 on 12,583.65 staked, ROI -20.26% CLV: mean +2.20% over 17 priced bets, beat close +75.00%, mean EV at bet +3.18% By sport: mlb 6-6-1 +77 (CLV +2.34%) | nba 1-0-0 +486 (CLV -4.90%) | nfl 0-3-0 -2,134 (CLV +4.39%) | nhl 0-1-0 -979 (CLV +1.03%) By market: h2h 1-7-0 -4,305 (CLV +2.87%) | spreads 2-2-0 -150 (CLV +0.02%) | totals 4-1-1 +1,905 (CLV +2.87%) By book: betrivers 4-5-1 -315 (CLV +0.67%) | bovada 0-1-0 -1,000 (CLV +6.18%) | draftkings 0-4-0 -3,584 (CLV +4.91%) | fanduel 1-0-0 +756 (CLV +4.00%) | lowvig 2-0-0 +1,593 (CLV +0.86%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 6-7-1 -802 (CLV +1.05%) | 4%-6% 1-1-0 +249 (CLV +9.14%) | 6%-10% 0-2-0 -1,997 (CLV +6.77%) ⚠ 1 settled bet(s) have no closing price, so no CLV (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011CgLuXurmMrqtitKxUsFLQ'})
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-10-24 · 8-16-0 · CLV -0.01% · statistics only
Season: 25 bets (8-16-0 W-L-P), P&L -5,530.99 on 12,491.95 staked, ROI -44.28% CLV: mean -0.01% over 25 priced bets, beat close +80.00%, mean EV at bet +1.95% By sport: mlb 6-9-0 -1,954 (CLV -0.40%) | nfl 1-5-0 -2,790 (CLV +0.39%) | nhl 1-2-0 -787 (CLV +1.26%) By market: h2h 4-11-0 -4,765 (CLV +1.00%) | spreads 3-4-0 -1,027 (CLV -1.94%) | totals 1-1-0 +262 (CLV +0.08%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 8-11-0 -1,931 (CLV -0.42%) | draftkings 0-5-0 -3,600 (CLV +1.63%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 2-6-0 -2,488 (CLV -0.90%) | 6%-10% 0-1-0 -981 (CLV +0.15%) | other 6-9-0 -2,062 (CLV +0.43%) (No review today: nothing settled since the last review and no experiment is due.)
Ontario books · 2026-10-24 · 3-8-1 · CLV +1.71% · statistics only
Season: 12 bets (3-8-1 W-L-P), P&L -2,292.85 on 6,603.50 staked, ROI -34.72% CLV: mean +1.71% over 12 priced bets, beat close +81.82%, mean EV at bet +2.50% By sport: mlb 3-4-1 -385 (CLV +1.19%) | nba 0-1-0 -704 (CLV +4.45%) | nfl 0-2-0 -690 (CLV +3.55%) | nhl 0-1-0 -514 (CLV -0.55%) By market: h2h 0-6-0 -2,853 (CLV +2.59%) | spreads 1-2-0 -752 (CLV -0.79%) | totals 2-0-1 +1,313 (CLV +2.44%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 2-8-1 -3,044 (CLV +1.50%) | fanduel 1-0-0 +752 (CLV +4.00%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 3-8-1 -2,293 (CLV +1.71%) (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011CgLuXxDA4miUgCwbtbTT7'})
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-10-24 · 0-1-0 · CLV +4.31% · statistics only
Season: 1 bets (0-1-0 W-L-P), P&L -1,000.00 on 1,000.00 staked, ROI -100.00% CLV: mean +4.31% over 1 priced bets, beat close +100.00%, mean EV at bet +4.53% By sport: nba 0-1-0 -1,000 (CLV +4.31%) By market: h2h 0-1-0 -1,000 (CLV +4.31%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 0-1-0 -1,000 (CLV +4.31%) By edge bucket: 4%-6% 0-1-0 -1,000 (CLV +4.31%) (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011CgLuXykft2TeYB7kdCDUm'})
Main — US soft books · 2026-10-23 · 6-10-1 · CLV +2.64% · statistics only
Season: 17 bets (6-10-1 W-L-P), P&L -3,036.12 on 12,120.38 staked, ROI -25.05% CLV: mean +2.64% over 16 priced bets, beat close +73.33%, mean EV at bet +3.25% By sport: mlb 6-6-1 +77 (CLV +2.34%) | nfl 0-3-0 -2,134 (CLV +4.39%) | nhl 0-1-0 -979 (CLV +1.03%) By market: h2h 0-7-0 -4,791 (CLV +3.98%) | spreads 2-2-0 -150 (CLV +0.02%) | totals 4-1-1 +1,905 (CLV +2.87%) By book: betrivers 3-5-1 -802 (CLV +1.29%) | bovada 0-1-0 -1,000 (CLV +6.18%) | draftkings 0-4-0 -3,584 (CLV +4.91%) | fanduel 1-0-0 +756 (CLV +4.00%) | lowvig 2-0-0 +1,593 (CLV +0.86%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 5-7-1 -1,288 (CLV +1.51%) | 4%-6% 1-1-0 +249 (CLV +9.14%) | 6%-10% 0-2-0 -1,997 (CLV +6.77%) ⚠ 1 settled bet(s) have no closing price, so no CLV (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011CgK1ixFdjywMyN6m9Kwkk'})
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-10-23 · 8-16-0 · CLV -0.01% · statistics only
Season: 25 bets (8-16-0 W-L-P), P&L -5,530.99 on 12,491.95 staked, ROI -44.28% CLV: mean -0.01% over 25 priced bets, beat close +80.00%, mean EV at bet +1.95% By sport: mlb 6-9-0 -1,954 (CLV -0.40%) | nfl 1-5-0 -2,790 (CLV +0.39%) | nhl 1-2-0 -787 (CLV +1.26%) By market: h2h 4-11-0 -4,765 (CLV +1.00%) | spreads 3-4-0 -1,027 (CLV -1.94%) | totals 1-1-0 +262 (CLV +0.08%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 8-11-0 -1,931 (CLV -0.42%) | draftkings 0-5-0 -3,600 (CLV +1.63%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 2-6-0 -2,488 (CLV -0.90%) | 6%-10% 0-1-0 -981 (CLV +0.15%) | other 6-9-0 -2,062 (CLV +0.43%) (No review today: nothing settled since the last review and no experiment is due.)
Ontario books · 2026-10-23 · 3-7-1 · CLV +1.46% · statistics only
Season: 11 bets (3-7-1 W-L-P), P&L -1,588.72 on 5,899.37 staked, ROI -26.93% CLV: mean +1.46% over 11 priced bets, beat close +80.00%, mean EV at bet +2.38% By sport: mlb 3-4-1 -385 (CLV +1.19%) | nfl 0-2-0 -690 (CLV +3.55%) | nhl 0-1-0 -514 (CLV -0.55%) By market: h2h 0-5-0 -2,149 (CLV +2.21%) | spreads 1-2-0 -752 (CLV -0.79%) | totals 2-0-1 +1,313 (CLV +2.44%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 2-7-1 -2,340 (CLV +1.20%) | fanduel 1-0-0 +752 (CLV +4.00%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 3-7-1 -1,589 (CLV +1.46%) (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011CgK1j1tfg3nAAxwbMzujh'})
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-10-23 · 0-0-0 · CLV n/a · statistics only
Season: 0 bets (0-0-0 W-L-P), P&L +0.00 on 0.00 staked, ROI +0.00% CLV: mean n/a over 0 priced bets, beat close n/a, mean EV at bet n/a (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011CgK1j4EJfycrdanR7exnq'})
Main — US soft books · 2026-10-22 · 6-10-1 · CLV +2.64% · statistics only
Season: 17 bets (6-10-1 W-L-P), P&L -3,036.12 on 12,120.38 staked, ROI -25.05% CLV: mean +2.64% over 16 priced bets, beat close +73.33%, mean EV at bet +3.25% By sport: mlb 6-6-1 +77 (CLV +2.34%) | nfl 0-3-0 -2,134 (CLV +4.39%) | nhl 0-1-0 -979 (CLV +1.03%) By market: h2h 0-7-0 -4,791 (CLV +3.98%) | spreads 2-2-0 -150 (CLV +0.02%) | totals 4-1-1 +1,905 (CLV +2.87%) By book: betrivers 3-5-1 -802 (CLV +1.29%) | bovada 0-1-0 -1,000 (CLV +6.18%) | draftkings 0-4-0 -3,584 (CLV +4.91%) | fanduel 1-0-0 +756 (CLV +4.00%) | lowvig 2-0-0 +1,593 (CLV +0.86%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 5-7-1 -1,288 (CLV +1.51%) | 4%-6% 1-1-0 +249 (CLV +9.14%) | 6%-10% 0-2-0 -1,997 (CLV +6.77%) ⚠ 1 settled bet(s) have no closing price, so no CLV (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011CgH7v2oyAViDrNiVL91g2'})
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-10-22 · 8-16-0 · CLV -0.01% · statistics only
Season: 25 bets (8-16-0 W-L-P), P&L -5,530.99 on 12,491.95 staked, ROI -44.28% CLV: mean -0.01% over 25 priced bets, beat close +80.00%, mean EV at bet +1.95% By sport: mlb 6-9-0 -1,954 (CLV -0.40%) | nfl 1-5-0 -2,790 (CLV +0.39%) | nhl 1-2-0 -787 (CLV +1.26%) By market: h2h 4-11-0 -4,765 (CLV +1.00%) | spreads 3-4-0 -1,027 (CLV -1.94%) | totals 1-1-0 +262 (CLV +0.08%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 8-11-0 -1,931 (CLV -0.42%) | draftkings 0-5-0 -3,600 (CLV +1.63%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 2-6-0 -2,488 (CLV -0.90%) | 6%-10% 0-1-0 -981 (CLV +0.15%) | other 6-9-0 -2,062 (CLV +0.43%) (No review today: nothing settled since the last review and no experiment is due.)
Ontario books · 2026-10-22 · 3-6-1 · CLV +1.66% · statistics only
Season: 10 bets (3-6-1 W-L-P), P&L -1,074.63 on 5,385.28 staked, ROI -19.95% CLV: mean +1.66% over 10 priced bets, beat close +77.78%, mean EV at bet +2.42% By sport: mlb 3-4-1 -385 (CLV +1.19%) | nfl 0-2-0 -690 (CLV +3.55%) By market: h2h 0-4-0 -1,635 (CLV +2.91%) | spreads 1-2-0 -752 (CLV -0.79%) | totals 2-0-1 +1,313 (CLV +2.44%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 2-6-1 -1,826 (CLV +1.40%) | fanduel 1-0-0 +752 (CLV +4.00%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 3-6-1 -1,075 (CLV +1.66%) (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011CgH7v8AgWyRwytb3Qb82F'})
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-10-22 · 0-0-0 · CLV n/a · statistics only
Season: 0 bets (0-0-0 W-L-P), P&L +0.00 on 0.00 staked, ROI +0.00% CLV: mean n/a over 0 priced bets, beat close n/a, mean EV at bet n/a (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011CgH7vBmyTbcD2PysTA1Fm'})
Main — US soft books · 2026-10-21 · 6-10-1 · CLV +2.64% · statistics only
Season: 17 bets (6-10-1 W-L-P), P&L -3,036.12 on 12,120.38 staked, ROI -25.05% CLV: mean +2.64% over 16 priced bets, beat close +73.33%, mean EV at bet +3.25% By sport: mlb 6-6-1 +77 (CLV +2.34%) | nfl 0-3-0 -2,134 (CLV +4.39%) | nhl 0-1-0 -979 (CLV +1.03%) By market: h2h 0-7-0 -4,791 (CLV +3.98%) | spreads 2-2-0 -150 (CLV +0.02%) | totals 4-1-1 +1,905 (CLV +2.87%) By book: betrivers 3-5-1 -802 (CLV +1.29%) | bovada 0-1-0 -1,000 (CLV +6.18%) | draftkings 0-4-0 -3,584 (CLV +4.91%) | fanduel 1-0-0 +756 (CLV +4.00%) | lowvig 2-0-0 +1,593 (CLV +0.86%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 5-7-1 -1,288 (CLV +1.51%) | 4%-6% 1-1-0 +249 (CLV +9.14%) | 6%-10% 0-2-0 -1,997 (CLV +6.77%) ⚠ 1 settled bet(s) have no closing price, so no CLV (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011CgFE74PDk1DgcRLh5FN8m'})
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-10-21 · 8-16-0 · CLV -0.01% · statistics only
Season: 25 bets (8-16-0 W-L-P), P&L -5,530.99 on 12,491.95 staked, ROI -44.28% CLV: mean -0.01% over 25 priced bets, beat close +80.00%, mean EV at bet +1.95% By sport: mlb 6-9-0 -1,954 (CLV -0.40%) | nfl 1-5-0 -2,790 (CLV +0.39%) | nhl 1-2-0 -787 (CLV +1.26%) By market: h2h 4-11-0 -4,765 (CLV +1.00%) | spreads 3-4-0 -1,027 (CLV -1.94%) | totals 1-1-0 +262 (CLV +0.08%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 8-11-0 -1,931 (CLV -0.42%) | draftkings 0-5-0 -3,600 (CLV +1.63%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 2-6-0 -2,488 (CLV -0.90%) | 6%-10% 0-1-0 -981 (CLV +0.15%) | other 6-9-0 -2,062 (CLV +0.43%) (No review today: nothing settled since the last review and no experiment is due.)
Ontario books · 2026-10-21 · 3-6-1 · CLV +1.66% · statistics only
Season: 10 bets (3-6-1 W-L-P), P&L -1,074.63 on 5,385.28 staked, ROI -19.95% CLV: mean +1.66% over 10 priced bets, beat close +77.78%, mean EV at bet +2.42% By sport: mlb 3-4-1 -385 (CLV +1.19%) | nfl 0-2-0 -690 (CLV +3.55%) By market: h2h 0-4-0 -1,635 (CLV +2.91%) | spreads 1-2-0 -752 (CLV -0.79%) | totals 2-0-1 +1,313 (CLV +2.44%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 2-6-1 -1,826 (CLV +1.40%) | fanduel 1-0-0 +752 (CLV +4.00%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 3-6-1 -1,075 (CLV +1.66%) (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011CgFE78xoPUXRNMGQ3szTt'})
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-10-21 · 0-0-0 · CLV n/a · statistics only
Season: 0 bets (0-0-0 W-L-P), P&L +0.00 on 0.00 staked, ROI +0.00% CLV: mean n/a over 0 priced bets, beat close n/a, mean EV at bet n/a (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011CgFE7BgGL1rJfiJS3HAGv'})
Main — US soft books · 2026-10-20 · 6-10-1 · CLV +2.64% · statistics only
Season: 17 bets (6-10-1 W-L-P), P&L -3,036.12 on 12,120.38 staked, ROI -25.05% CLV: mean +2.64% over 16 priced bets, beat close +73.33%, mean EV at bet +3.25% By sport: mlb 6-6-1 +77 (CLV +2.34%) | nfl 0-3-0 -2,134 (CLV +4.39%) | nhl 0-1-0 -979 (CLV +1.03%) By market: h2h 0-7-0 -4,791 (CLV +3.98%) | spreads 2-2-0 -150 (CLV +0.02%) | totals 4-1-1 +1,905 (CLV +2.87%) By book: betrivers 3-5-1 -802 (CLV +1.29%) | bovada 0-1-0 -1,000 (CLV +6.18%) | draftkings 0-4-0 -3,584 (CLV +4.91%) | fanduel 1-0-0 +756 (CLV +4.00%) | lowvig 2-0-0 +1,593 (CLV +0.86%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 5-7-1 -1,288 (CLV +1.51%) | 4%-6% 1-1-0 +249 (CLV +9.14%) | 6%-10% 0-2-0 -1,997 (CLV +6.77%) ⚠ 1 settled bet(s) have no closing price, so no CLV (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011CgDLJCojL2eBD5kBaEGix'})
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-10-20 · 8-16-0 · CLV -0.01% · statistics only
Season: 25 bets (8-16-0 W-L-P), P&L -5,530.99 on 12,491.95 staked, ROI -44.28% CLV: mean -0.01% over 25 priced bets, beat close +80.00%, mean EV at bet +1.95% By sport: mlb 6-9-0 -1,954 (CLV -0.40%) | nfl 1-5-0 -2,790 (CLV +0.39%) | nhl 1-2-0 -787 (CLV +1.26%) By market: h2h 4-11-0 -4,765 (CLV +1.00%) | spreads 3-4-0 -1,027 (CLV -1.94%) | totals 1-1-0 +262 (CLV +0.08%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 8-11-0 -1,931 (CLV -0.42%) | draftkings 0-5-0 -3,600 (CLV +1.63%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 2-6-0 -2,488 (CLV -0.90%) | 6%-10% 0-1-0 -981 (CLV +0.15%) | other 6-9-0 -2,062 (CLV +0.43%) (No review today: nothing settled since the last review and no experiment is due.)
Ontario books · 2026-10-20 · 3-6-1 · CLV +1.66% · statistics only
Season: 10 bets (3-6-1 W-L-P), P&L -1,074.63 on 5,385.28 staked, ROI -19.95% CLV: mean +1.66% over 10 priced bets, beat close +77.78%, mean EV at bet +2.42% By sport: mlb 3-4-1 -385 (CLV +1.19%) | nfl 0-2-0 -690 (CLV +3.55%) By market: h2h 0-4-0 -1,635 (CLV +2.91%) | spreads 1-2-0 -752 (CLV -0.79%) | totals 2-0-1 +1,313 (CLV +2.44%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 2-6-1 -1,826 (CLV +1.40%) | fanduel 1-0-0 +752 (CLV +4.00%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 3-6-1 -1,075 (CLV +1.66%) (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011CgDLJHqbeiX579tutwDjE'})
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-10-20 · 0-0-0 · CLV n/a · statistics only
Season: 0 bets (0-0-0 W-L-P), P&L +0.00 on 0.00 staked, ROI +0.00% CLV: mean n/a over 0 priced bets, beat close n/a, mean EV at bet n/a (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011CgDLJLhWAquGRokRBxC3v'})
Main — US soft books · 2026-10-19 · 6-10-1 · CLV +2.64% · statistics only
Season: 17 bets (6-10-1 W-L-P), P&L -3,036.12 on 12,120.38 staked, ROI -25.05% CLV: mean +2.64% over 16 priced bets, beat close +73.33%, mean EV at bet +3.25% By sport: mlb 6-6-1 +77 (CLV +2.34%) | nfl 0-3-0 -2,134 (CLV +4.39%) | nhl 0-1-0 -979 (CLV +1.03%) By market: h2h 0-7-0 -4,791 (CLV +3.98%) | spreads 2-2-0 -150 (CLV +0.02%) | totals 4-1-1 +1,905 (CLV +2.87%) By book: betrivers 3-5-1 -802 (CLV +1.29%) | bovada 0-1-0 -1,000 (CLV +6.18%) | draftkings 0-4-0 -3,584 (CLV +4.91%) | fanduel 1-0-0 +756 (CLV +4.00%) | lowvig 2-0-0 +1,593 (CLV +0.86%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 5-7-1 -1,288 (CLV +1.51%) | 4%-6% 1-1-0 +249 (CLV +9.14%) | 6%-10% 0-2-0 -1,997 (CLV +6.77%) ⚠ 1 settled bet(s) have no closing price, so no CLV (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011CgBSVEs155haqjenmyFjz'})
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-10-19 · 8-16-0 · CLV -0.01% · statistics only
Season: 25 bets (8-16-0 W-L-P), P&L -5,530.99 on 12,491.95 staked, ROI -44.28% CLV: mean -0.01% over 25 priced bets, beat close +80.00%, mean EV at bet +1.95% By sport: mlb 6-9-0 -1,954 (CLV -0.40%) | nfl 1-5-0 -2,790 (CLV +0.39%) | nhl 1-2-0 -787 (CLV +1.26%) By market: h2h 4-11-0 -4,765 (CLV +1.00%) | spreads 3-4-0 -1,027 (CLV -1.94%) | totals 1-1-0 +262 (CLV +0.08%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 8-11-0 -1,931 (CLV -0.42%) | draftkings 0-5-0 -3,600 (CLV +1.63%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 2-6-0 -2,488 (CLV -0.90%) | 6%-10% 0-1-0 -981 (CLV +0.15%) | other 6-9-0 -2,062 (CLV +0.43%) (No review today: nothing settled since the last review and no experiment is due.)
Ontario books · 2026-10-19 · 3-6-1 · CLV +1.66% · statistics only
Season: 10 bets (3-6-1 W-L-P), P&L -1,074.63 on 5,385.28 staked, ROI -19.95% CLV: mean +1.66% over 10 priced bets, beat close +77.78%, mean EV at bet +2.42% By sport: mlb 3-4-1 -385 (CLV +1.19%) | nfl 0-2-0 -690 (CLV +3.55%) By market: h2h 0-4-0 -1,635 (CLV +2.91%) | spreads 1-2-0 -752 (CLV -0.79%) | totals 2-0-1 +1,313 (CLV +2.44%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 2-6-1 -1,826 (CLV +1.40%) | fanduel 1-0-0 +752 (CLV +4.00%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 3-6-1 -1,075 (CLV +1.66%) (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011CgBSVJAwYJhXicP4Liv1T'})
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-10-19 · 0-0-0 · CLV n/a · statistics only
Season: 0 bets (0-0-0 W-L-P), P&L +0.00 on 0.00 staked, ROI +0.00% CLV: mean n/a over 0 priced bets, beat close n/a, mean EV at bet n/a (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011CgBSVLrRLUBSYrm19pp6M'})
Main — US soft books · 2026-10-18 · 6-10-1 · CLV +2.64% · statistics only
Season: 17 bets (6-10-1 W-L-P), P&L -3,036.12 on 12,120.38 staked, ROI -25.05% CLV: mean +2.64% over 16 priced bets, beat close +73.33%, mean EV at bet +3.25% By sport: mlb 6-6-1 +77 (CLV +2.34%) | nfl 0-3-0 -2,134 (CLV +4.39%) | nhl 0-1-0 -979 (CLV +1.03%) By market: h2h 0-7-0 -4,791 (CLV +3.98%) | spreads 2-2-0 -150 (CLV +0.02%) | totals 4-1-1 +1,905 (CLV +2.87%) By book: betrivers 3-5-1 -802 (CLV +1.29%) | bovada 0-1-0 -1,000 (CLV +6.18%) | draftkings 0-4-0 -3,584 (CLV +4.91%) | fanduel 1-0-0 +756 (CLV +4.00%) | lowvig 2-0-0 +1,593 (CLV +0.86%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 5-7-1 -1,288 (CLV +1.51%) | 4%-6% 1-1-0 +249 (CLV +9.14%) | 6%-10% 0-2-0 -1,997 (CLV +6.77%) ⚠ 1 settled bet(s) have no closing price, so no CLV (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011Cg9YgKAxftB1oJbrcuioN'})
Agent — picks and tunes itself · 2026-10-18 · 8-16-0 · CLV -0.01% · statistics only
Season: 25 bets (8-16-0 W-L-P), P&L -5,530.99 on 12,491.95 staked, ROI -44.28% CLV: mean -0.01% over 25 priced bets, beat close +80.00%, mean EV at bet +1.95% By sport: mlb 6-9-0 -1,954 (CLV -0.40%) | nfl 1-5-0 -2,790 (CLV +0.39%) | nhl 1-2-0 -787 (CLV +1.26%) By market: h2h 4-11-0 -4,765 (CLV +1.00%) | spreads 3-4-0 -1,027 (CLV -1.94%) | totals 1-1-0 +262 (CLV +0.08%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 8-11-0 -1,931 (CLV -0.42%) | draftkings 0-5-0 -3,600 (CLV +1.63%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 2-6-0 -2,488 (CLV -0.90%) | 6%-10% 0-1-0 -981 (CLV +0.15%) | other 6-9-0 -2,062 (CLV +0.43%) (No review today: nothing settled since the last review and no experiment is due.)
Ontario books · 2026-10-18 · 3-6-1 · CLV +1.66% · statistics only
Season: 10 bets (3-6-1 W-L-P), P&L -1,074.63 on 5,385.28 staked, ROI -19.95% CLV: mean +1.66% over 10 priced bets, beat close +77.78%, mean EV at bet +2.42% By sport: mlb 3-4-1 -385 (CLV +1.19%) | nfl 0-2-0 -690 (CLV +3.55%) By market: h2h 0-4-0 -1,635 (CLV +2.91%) | spreads 1-2-0 -752 (CLV -0.79%) | totals 2-0-1 +1,313 (CLV +2.44%) By book: betrivers_ca_on 2-6-1 -1,826 (CLV +1.40%) | fanduel 1-0-0 +752 (CLV +4.00%) By edge bucket: 2%-4% 3-6-1 -1,075 (CLV +1.66%) (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011Cg9YgP3saLxHYVtRTrKL4'})
Retail — regulated NA consensus · 2026-10-18 · 0-0-0 · CLV n/a · statistics only
Season: 0 bets (0-0-0 W-L-P), P&L +0.00 on 0.00 staked, ROI +0.00% CLV: mean n/a over 0 priced bets, beat close n/a, mean EV at bet n/a (No narrative: BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.'}, 'request_id': 'req_011Cg9YgRi7iFNip5otnHhS7'})