NFL Hit Rates
Retail sportsbooks lean hard on long-shot bets — big odds, thin real chances. The price looks generous because the probability is worse than it feels. Our picks are data-driven and every one of them is graded here, so you can judge a bet by its actual chance of hitting rather than by how the odds are packaged. Where our hit rate beats the market’s, that gap is your leverage.
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0–0 · n=0 · leg hit rate, all time
What each number means
Our picks (legs)
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0–0 · every graded straight pick
Market baseline
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0–0 · how often the favored side wins
When we disagreed
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0–0 · our rate only when we broke from the market
Long shots
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Straight picks by market
Bars above the line beat the −110 breakeven rate (52.4%); bars below it don’t.
Does our confidence label mean anything?
If our confidence tiers are honest, this chart should slope up: Strong should hit more than Lean, and Lean more than Slight.
Methodology
What counts as a "leg" hit rate?
A leg is one graded pick — one side of one market on one game or player prop. The leg hit rate is wins divided by decided legs (wins plus losses; pushes are excluded from both sides).
How is a parlay hit rate different from a leg hit rate?
A parlay only pays out when every leg in it hits. A parlay hit rate is the share of full parlay tickets that won outright, so it is always lower than the leg hit rate that built it.
What is the market baseline / breakeven rate?
At standard −110 odds, a bettor needs to win about 52.4% of the time just to break even before any edge. We show our own hit rate against that line so it can be judged as leverage, not just a percentage.
What is a "long shot" pick?
A long shot is a player-prop pick our model gave less than a 50% chance of hitting before the game. We track these separately by units won or lost against the actual book price, not by win percentage alone.
Why does confidence calibration matter?
Every pick is labeled Slight, Lean, or Strong before the game is played. If that label means anything, Strong picks should hit more often than Lean, and Lean more often than Slight — the chart above shows that comparison directly.