Badge rules
Panel record when most agreed
Badges are facts about past picks, given by published rules. A badge is not a recommendation.
The rule
Outlet pages only. In games where at least 3 panelists picked, the side most of the panel took, graded on one market: at least 30 games, with a share at least 5 points above the average of the outlets.
- Holders now
- 0
- Window
- season
Picks that count. Picks we recorded before kickoff; picks whose time before kickoff was set by the publishing platform (timestamped by the publishing platform) or shown by a web archive copy of the page (archive record); and, for ESPN, CBS Sports and NFL.com, picks read after the game where the outlet's own published record for that expert matches our recount (per the outlet's published record). Any other pick read after the game can only lower a record, and any known loss ends a run. Levels (No.1, Top 3, Top 5, Top 10) use the live record only, from Week 6 of 2026 on.
Holders
No tracked forecaster holds this badge yet. Levels start once the live record (from Week 6) has enough graded picks.
How common
Held now by 0 outlets.
Our chance check (Oct 12, 2026): the same picks, with every game's score drawn again at random around the market line, 40 times. If a badge shows up about as often by chance as in the real record, it is a fact about the past, not a sign of skill.
| Variant | Picks used | Qualifying | Held, real record | Held by chance, average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATS | all picks, including those read after the game | 2 | 1 | 0.1 |
| SU | all picks, including those read after the game | 3 | 0 | 0 |
