Badge rules

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Badges are facts about past picks, given by published rules. A badge is not a recommendation.

The rule

Market-adjusted points over the last four NFL weeks with graded picks: at least 15 scored picks (10 on totals) and at least +2.0 points, for forecasters whose record on that market starts before the window. Levels (No.1 to Top 10) in the same window use the live record only, with at least 30 scored picks (20 on totals).

Holders now
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Window
last 4 weeks

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. Points use the fair market price at the moment of each pick, with the bookmaker margin taken out; a straight-up pick without a two-sided price at that moment is left out, a spread or total pick without a price on its own line counts at even odds, and a pick read after the game counts as a miss (−1). Levels (No.1, Top 3, Top 5, Top 10) use the live record only, from Week 6 of 2026 on.

Holders

Current holders. Each badge links to the picks behind it.
HolderBadgeSinceShare
Dave Richard
CBS Sports
SU · +6.7 market-adjusted points · 43 picks · Weeks 2–5, 2026
Matches the outlet's published record
Oct 13, 2026Card
Jason Reid
ESPN
SU · +6.0 market-adjusted points · 42 picks · Weeks 2–5, 2026
Timestamped before kickoff (web archive copy)Matches the outlet's published record
Oct 13, 2026Card
Lindsey Thiry
ESPN
SU · +3.2 market-adjusted points · 42 picks · Weeks 2–5, 2026
Timestamped before kickoff (web archive copy)Matches the outlet's published record
Oct 13, 2026Card
Jamey Eisenberg
CBS Sports
ATS · +13.0 market-adjusted points · 63 picks · Weeks 2–5, 2026
Matches the outlet's published record
Oct 13, 2026Card

How common

Held now by 4 of the 73 forecasters in the badge count.

Our chance check (Oct 13, 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.

Recent form: real record vs chanceSU: held by 3 of 23 qualifying forecasters in the real record; by chance about 8.2 on average. ATS: held by 1 of 12 qualifying forecasters in the real record; by chance about 3.4 on average.SU023by chance ≈8.2real record 3ATS012by chance ≈3.4real record 1
Chance check, SU: 3 of 23 qualifying forecasters held it in the real record; with every score drawn again at random around the market line, 8.2 on average (≈1 in 3 gets it by chance). Rows for 2 variants are in the table.Oct 13, 2026, 40 runs; picks recorded or timestamped before kickoff, archive and checked outlet records. Filled dot — real record, open circle — chance. Holders now are listed above.
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Every variant and data layer of the chance check.
VariantPicks usedQualifyingHeld, real recordHeld by chance, average
ATSpicks recorded or timestamped before kickoff, archive records and checked outlet records1213.4
SUpicks recorded or timestamped before kickoff, archive records and checked outlet records2338.2
Recent form — Hunchmeter badge for NFL forecasters, 2026: held now by 4 forecasters — Hunchmeter
Share this badge Copy link (the address of this badge) · Download card. To quote this badge:Recent form — a Hunchmeter badge for NFL forecasters: Market-adjusted points over the last four NFL weeks with graded picks: at least 15 scored picks (10 on totals) and at least +2.0 points, for forecasters whose record on that market starts before the window. Held now by 4 forecasters. https://hunchmeter.com/titles/recent-form/ Each holder's own card is in the Share column of the table above.

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