Mile High Report · NFL 2026 · week 5

Scotty Payne's 2026 NFL picks and record

1–0–0

Straight up · 1 win · 0 losses · 0 ties · 1 of 1 decided picks · no win % until 10 decided picks

Week 7 picks: none recorded · Mile High Report usually posts on Thursday · last checked Oct 23, 4:16 a.m. ET

Market-adjusted points, straight up: +0.6 points 1 pick scored · 1 of 1 had a market price

How to read the points: zero is what the betting odds expected from these picks; above zero is better than the odds, below zero is worse.

How the graded picks were recorded · 1 pick

1 Read after the game

Read after the game: the pick as the outlet published it. Its page shows no pick time. These picks count in records; numbered places use only picks recorded before kickoff. What the labels mean →

Record so far

Current streak, straight up: 1 win in a row Longest: 1 win

Market-adjusted points Pick results adjusted for market odds.

A right pick on a 50-50 game earns 1 point, a right underdog pick earns more, and a wrong pick costs 1. Above zero means better than the betting odds expected. Compare all pick types · How these points are calculated

Pick log
Market-adjusted results
By week
Record in each team's games
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Every pick

Week 5 · SU 1-0-0

Game	Straight up	Final	Predicted score	How we got it
DEN at LAC Sun, Oct 11	DEN Win	DEN 23, LAC 17	DEN 27-13	Read after the game

All Week 5 picks

Market-adjusted results

Three numbers for each market: the record, market-adjusted points and how picking every favorite would have done. Points count each pick as if it were a 1-point play at the market price at the time of the pick (for picks read after the game, the price at the start of that NFL week), with the bookmaker margin taken out: a win adds what that price paid (more for an underdog, less for a favorite), a loss takes away 1 point, a push counts 0. How points work

The 2026 season, the last four weeks, and the live record (picks recorded before kickoff, from Week 6) when available. Straight-up picks without a two-way price at the time are excluded from points; spread and over/under picks without line odds are scored at even odds.
Market and period	Record in these picks	Market-adjusted points	Compared with
Straight up 2026 season	1-0	+0.6 points 1 pick scored · 1 of 1 had a market price	Every favorite: 1-0 same 1 game

Winner picks: points vs picking every favorite · market-adjusted points on the same 1 pick

Scotty Payne +0.6 vs +0.6 favorites

Teal: the expert's market-adjusted points. Gray: picking every favorite in the same games, scored the same way.

By week

W-L-T by week.
Week	Straight up
Week 5	1-0-0
Season	1-0-0

By team

Record when picking each team

W-L-P. "Picked to win" counts picks on that team; "picked to lose" counts picks on its opponent.
Team	Picked to win	Picked to lose
DEN Denver Broncos	1-0-0	—
LAC Los Angeles Chargers	—	1-0-0

Does this match Mile High Report?

This record is our count of the picks published on Mile High Report's pages, graded against the final scores.

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