How it works
Every game involving a Big 12 team is on the slate. Pick a side against the spread. The whole week locks at the first kickoff, and what you picked becomes public then — not before.
The line does not move
The spread is taken from the market when the week is published and written down. Everyone plays the same number, and it is the number you are scored against even if the market moves ten points afterwards. It is rounded to the nearest half point, because a cross-book average sitting on an arbitrary tenth is not a line anybody could have bet.
Push
Land exactly on the number and it is a push: not a win, not a loss, and counted in neither half of your percentage. Whole-number lines are the only ones that can do this. Over the 2025 season five of 120 games would have pushed.
Games you cannot pick
A game with no posted line is shown and grayed out. So is one whose kickoff has not been announced — the lock is the first kickoff, and a time nobody has set cannot be part of that. If a line appears before the lock, the game opens up.
A game that is not played
Cancelled or abandoned, it is void for everyone: no win, no loss, out of the percentage entirely. A voided opener does not reopen a week that has already locked.
Weeks
A pick'em week is a weekend, Tuesday to Monday. It is not the week number on the tiebreaker or schedule pages: those follow the data provider, whose 2025 “week 1” ran nine days and eighteen games. Opening week is the one genuine exception here too, running Thursday to Labor Day.
The board
Ranked by wins, then by percentage. A new account is hidden from the public board until it has completed one scored week — long enough that a throwaway account is not worth making, short enough that a real player waits once.
The chalk
The bottom row of the board, and not a player. It is what you would have scored by taking the favorite in every single game, every week, without thinking about any of them. It has nothing to do with what anybody picked.
It is there because finishing above the field only tells you the field had a bad week. Finishing above the chalk means your picks knew something the spread did not, which is the only version of this that is hard. Games with no favorite — a line of exactly zero — are skipped, because there is nothing for it to take.
The room
The other bottom row, and also not a player. It is the side most people took on every game, scored as if one person had made all of those picks. Where the chalk asks whether you beat the market, the room asks whether you beat everybody else put together — which is a real question, because a crowd is often better than the average person in it and occasionally much worse.
Every card counts toward it, exactly as they count toward the split shown on each game, so you can add up what you can see and arrive at this row. A game where the picks land exactly even is left out: the room genuinely had no opinion, and inventing one for it would just make this a worse copy of the chalk.
Signing in
Google or GitHub, and we ask them for one thing: that you are you. No email address, no name, no picture. What is public is the display name you choose and your record. What we store.