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Rules replayed

4 more listed that the engine cannot run

Seasons replayed

1999–2024 · 2025 held out

Priced at

all 4 replayed rules · consensus close · a choice in the builder

01Rules

4 rules replayed · 4 more listed that the engine cannot run · Film Room

Loses01Fade every over13,680 bets · −3.3% ROI · open in the builder
Unclear02Rush attempts unders2,256 bets · −1.8% ROI · open in the builder
Loses03Chase the streak1,150 bets · −13.2% ROI · open in the builder
Cannot run04Follow the model's leansWaiting for walk-forward model predictions persisted for the historical seasons.
Cannot run05Buy the middleWaiting for a rule language with two legs: lab.strategy/1 bets one side at one price.
Cannot run06Arbitrage between booksWaiting for a rule language with two legs: lab.strategy/1 bets one side at one price.
Loses07Home underdogs of 3 to 71,400 bets · −5.6% ROI · open in the builder
Cannot run08Unders in the windWaiting for forecast weather joined to the replayed games.

4 rules replayed on this site so far. The more rules are tried, the more likely one clears zero by chance alone: with 4 tried, a 95% interval that allows for it spans about ±2.50 standard errors (Bonferroni), not ±1.96. The intervals on this page are the plain 95%.

Chase the streak

prop over on receptions/receiving_yards/rush_attempts/sacks, 2023-2025 REG weeks 1-18, 1 condition(s), consensus_close at close

Loses2025 held out

−13.2% ROI

1,150 bets, −13.2% ROI. Inside what luck produces.

“Loses” is set by a fixed rule, not a judgement: the ROI interval lies wholly under zero. Re-checked on this page from the file’s own interval and luck check.

Hit rate47.0% [44.1%, 49.8%]

53.7% break-even

ROI−13.2% [−18.2%, −8.5%]

Cleared 47.0% [44.1, 49.8] of 1,150 graded, against a break-even of 53.7% at the average price paid (−116): the interval sits wholly under it. The ROI interval runs from −18.2% to −8.5%, and sits wholly under zero.

Bets: 1,150; 36 weeks · 0 void
Cleared: 540; 610 missed · 0 push
Hit rate: 47.0%; 95% [44.1, 49.8] · of 1,150
Break-even: 53.7%; at the average price paid, −116
ROI: −13.2%; 95% [−18.2, −8.5] · by week
Units: −151.6u; 95% [−208.7, −98.1] · 1u flat

Worst drawdown: coming once the rule’s file carries its drawdown key (a-44).
CLV: none to publish. Every bet here is taken at the close, which is the price CLV is measured against.

Returns over time

units · by week block

This rule's ROI sits at percentile 7.4 among 1,000 random rules of 1,150 bets drawn from the same pool of 9,150: inside the 5th to 95th percentile, which is where luck alone lands a rule this size.

Returns over time: coming once this rule’s file, lab/nfl/presets/chase_the_streak.json, carries its week-block series (the returns key, a-44). Nothing is drawn from anything else in the meantime.

How this is computed

The line is cumulative units, staked 1 unit flat, counted in date order. It moves once per block of weeks, not once per bet: each block is whole weeks of one season holding at least the file's floor of cleared bets, because consecutive points of a bet-by-bet curve would give each bet’s book price back, and the file withholds those (“Deliberately restricted: no bet carries its book price, its book, its stake or its profit, and the file has no equity curve. The prices are The Odds API's, whose terms (read 2026-09-24, updated 31 Aug 2026) say nothing either way about displaying historical odds, so they stay on the server and only aggregates leave it. A winning flat bet's profit is its price minus one, and consecutive points of a cumulative curve difference back to it, so those are withheld for the same reason. ROI and units appear only where they average at least 10 cleared bets' prices. Do not add these fields back without a decision that the terms allow it.”). The band is where 90% of random rules land at the same block, the 5th to the 95th percentile of 1,000 rules drawing the same number of bets, at random, from the same pool of eligible lines on the same side. Inside it, the rule did nothing a coin could not.

By season

ROI · 95% interval

0 of 2 seasons' ROI intervals include zero; 2 sit wholly under it; 0 sit wholly over it.

Season	Bets	Cleared	95%	ROI	95%	Against zero
2023	517	47.4%	[43.1, 51.7]	−12.8%	[−18.2, −7.4]
2024	633	46.6%	[42.7, 50.5]	−13.5%	[−21.2, −6.0]

How this is computed

A real effect shows up every year; one good season inside a run of intervals that include zero is what chance looks like. The ROI interval resamples whole weeks, so bets in the same week move together. Seasons under 100 bets are greyed: their intervals are wide enough that the row should not be read on its own.

2025 is held out

The file: “held out: no figure in this result includes the 2025 season”. The season is kept back so the rule can be tested once, on games it was never shaped by. Looking is done once, when the rule has stopped changing: the job that replays it reveals the season and writes that into the file, and from then on 2025 is marked as seen on this rule.

Not revealed · no 2025 figure anywhere on this page

Where it won and lost

95% intervals · under 100 bets greyed

22 segments in 5 cuts; 10 under 100 bets, greyed.

Market

Segment	Bets	Cleared	95%	ROI	95%
Receiving yards	611	47.3%	[43.4, 51.3]	−10.7%	[−18.6, −3.5]
Receptions	306	50.7%	[45.1, 56.2]	−10.9%	[−20.8, −1.3]
Rush attempts	187	44.4%	[37.4, 51.5]	−18.7%	[−29.4, −8.4]
Sacksunder 100 bets	46	28.3%	[17.3, 42.5]	−38.8%	[−64.7, −7.1]

Home or away

Segment	Bets	Cleared	95%	ROI	95%	Against zero
Away	588	46.6%	[42.6, 50.6]	−13.7%	[−21.2, −6.6]
Home	545	47.3%	[43.2, 51.5]	−12.7%	[−19.4, −5.7]

Roof

Segment	Bets	Cleared	95%	ROI	95%	Against zero
Open air	783	45.6%	[42.1, 49.1]	−15.7%	[−21.6, −10.2]
Dome	350	50.0%	[44.8, 55.2]	−7.5%	[−18.2, +3.5]

Position

Segment	Bets	Cleared	95%	ROI	95%
DEunder 100 bets	16	6.3%	[1.1, 28.3]	ROI and units withheld: they would average 1 cleared bet price, fewer than 10, and could be read back to a book price
DTunder 100 bets	6	16.7%	[3.0, 56.4]	ROI and units withheld: they would average 1 cleared bet price, fewer than 10, and could be read back to a book price
LBunder 100 bets	16	50.0%	[28.0, 72.0]	ROI and units withheld: they would average 8 cleared bet prices, fewer than 10, and could be read back to a book price
MLBunder 100 bets	2	100.0%	[34.2, 100.0]	ROI and units withheld: they would average 2 cleared bet prices, fewer than 10, and could be read back to a book price
NTunder 100 bets	1	0.0%	[0.0, 79.3]	ROI and units withheld: they would average 0 cleared bet prices, fewer than 10, and could be read back to a book price
OLBunder 100 bets	5	20.0%	[3.6, 62.4]	ROI and units withheld: they would average 1 cleared bet price, fewer than 10, and could be read back to a book price
QBunder 100 bets	50	44.0%	[31.2, 57.7]	−23.1%	[−50.7, +3.5]
RB	356	46.9%	[41.8, 52.1]	−13.5%	[−22.4, −5.3]
TE	226	48.7%	[42.2, 55.2]	−9.5%	[−21.4, +3.1]
WR	472	48.3%	[43.8, 52.8]	−11.1%	[−18.8, −3.5]

De-vigged price

Segment	Bets	Cleared	95%	ROI	95%
0.40–0.50	210	48.1%	[41.4, 54.8]	−4.9%	[−16.4, +6.5]
0.50–0.60	878	47.0%	[43.8, 50.3]	−14.2%	[−19.8, −8.9]
<0.40under 100 bets	22	27.3%	[13.2, 48.2]	ROI and units withheld: they would average 6 cleared bet prices, fewer than 10, and could be read back to a book price
>=0.60under 100 bets	40	50.0%	[35.2, 64.8]	−24.8%	[−48.2, +2.2]

How this is computed

The same bets, cut by what was known before kickoff. A segment is not a new rule: with this many cuts, some will sit away from the rest by chance, so a single segment’s interval is not evidence on its own. ROI and units are withheld where they would average fewer than 10 cleared bets’ prices, and the file says so on the row.

The rule, as the engine approved it

prop over on receptions/receiving_yards/rush_attempts/sacks, 2023-2025 REG weeks 1-18, 1 condition(s), consensus_close at close

Bet type: prop
Markets: Receptions, Receiving yards, Rush attempts, Sacks
Side: over
Seasons: 2023–2025 · REG · weeks 1–18
Conditions: player.streak ≥ 3
Line: main
Price: consensus_close · draftkings, fanduel, betmgm · de-vig multiplicative · at the book's posted juice · -110 where none is posted
Timing: close
Staking: flat · 1u
Limits: per game no limit · per player week 1 · per week no limit
Settlement: push: refund · no snap: void

Where the prices came from

2023–2025 · The Odds API historical close, draftkings, fanduel, betmgm · a close · last snapshot at or before kickoff

strategy 3e308f429ef5db055f9f77bbdc46f911f310821f37864e1f8423f30b7aef8854 · AUDIT-2026-09-24, the Lab library launch set

How this is computed

The strategy is stored exactly as the engine approved it, defaults filled, and hashed; the same rule always hashes the same. Every condition is a figure stored as of before kickoff, so nothing known after the game can decide a bet.

Every bet it made

50 shown of 1,150 bets, newest first; page 5 of 23. Filters narrow the list; nothing is removed.

Date · wk	Bet	De-vig	Result	Actual
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	George KittleReceiving yards 45.5 overSF v BUF	50.5%	missed	7
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	Mack HollinsReceiving yards 16.5 overBUF v SF	50.0%	missed	7
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	Bucky IrvingReceptions 2.5 overTB v CAR	57.2%	cleared	3
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	00-0039063Sacks 0.25 overTB v CAR	45.9%	cleared	1
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	Alvin KamaraRush attempts 15.5 overNO v LA	52.6%	cleared	23
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	Puka NacuaReceiving yards 83.5 overLA v NO	50.0%	missed	56
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	Taysom HillReceiving yards 29.5 overNO v LA	50.0%	cleared	37
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	James ConnerReceptions 2.5 overARI v MIN	57.2%	cleared	3
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	Ja'Marr ChaseReceptions 6.5 overCIN v PIT	43.5%	missed	6
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	Najee HarrisRush attempts 14.5 overPIT v CIN	52.0%	cleared	16
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	Jermaine BurtonReceiving yards 7.5 overCIN v PIT	51.0%	missed	0
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	Joe MixonReceiving yards 21.5 overHOU v JAX	50.5%	missed	18
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	DeMario DouglasReceiving yards 39.5 overNE v IND	50.0%	missed	20
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	Chase BrownReceiving yards 27.5 overCIN v PIT	50.0%	cleared	30
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	Jaxon Smith-NjigbaReceiving yards 53.5 overSEA v NYJ	50.0%	cleared	74
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	Alec PierceReceiving yards 31.5 overIND v NE	50.0%	missed	16
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	Jaylen WarrenReceiving yards 16.5 overPIT v CIN	50.0%	cleared	55
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	Tee HigginsReceiving yards 70.5 overCIN v PIT	50.0%	missed	69
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	Noah FantReceiving yards 20.5 overSEA v NYJ	50.0%	cleared	26
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	DK MetcalfReceiving yards 56.5 overSEA v NYJ	50.0%	cleared	66
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	Kendrick BourneReceiving yards 24.5 overNE v IND	50.0%	cleared	39
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	Austin HooperReceiving yards 18.5 overNE v IND	50.0%	cleared	42
2024-12-012024 · wk 13	Davante AdamsReceptions 5.5 overNYJ v SEA	50.0%	missed	5
2024-11-292024 · wk 13	Kareem HuntRush attempts 12.5 overKC v LV	48.0%	missed	7
2024-11-282024 · wk 13	00-0034967Sacks 0.25 overGB v MIA	38.4%	missed	0
2024-11-282024 · wk 13	Jaylen WrightRush attempts 4.5 overMIA v GB	46.9%	missed	0
2024-11-282024 · wk 13	Chris BrooksReceiving yards 4.5 overGB v MIA	51.0%	missed	1
2024-11-282024 · wk 13	Theo JohnsonReceiving yards 21.5 overNYG v DAL	50.0%	cleared	54
2024-11-282024 · wk 13	Jameson WilliamsReceiving yards 49.5 overDET v CHI	52.0%	missed	28
2024-11-282024 · wk 13	Roschon JohnsonReceiving yards 2.5 overCHI v DET	51.0%	missed	0
2024-11-282024 · wk 13	David MontgomeryReceiving yards 11.5 overDET v CHI	50.0%	cleared	36
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	Cooper KuppReceiving yards 67.5 overLA v PHI	50.0%	missed	60
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	Geno SmithRush attempts 3.5 overSEA v ARI	43.7%	missed	3
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	Deebo Samuel Sr.Receptions 3.5 overSF v GB	55.4%	missed	1
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	Zach CharbonnetReceptions 1.5 overSEA v ARI	54.8%	missed	0
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	Jaxon Smith-NjigbaReceiving yards 57.5 overSEA v ARI	50.5%	cleared	77
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	Elijah HigginsReceiving yards 7.5 overARI v SEA	50.0%	missed	5
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	George KittleReceiving yards 38.5 overSF v GB	50.0%	cleared	82
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	Courtland SuttonReceiving yards 58.5 overDEN v LV	50.0%	cleared	97
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	Kylen GransonReceptions 0.5 overIND v DET	65.8%	missed	0
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	00-0036479Sacks 0.25 overIND v DET	38.4%	missed	0
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	Justin WatsonReceptions 1.5 overKC v CAR	41.6%	missed	1
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	Keenan AllenReceptions 3.5 overCHI v MIN	58.2%	cleared	9
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	DeMario DouglasReceptions 3.5 overNE v MIA	57.2%	cleared	5
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	Odell Beckham Jr.Receptions 1.5 overMIA v NE	42.8%	missed	0
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	Bucky IrvingReceptions 2.5 overTB v NYG	43.7%	cleared	6
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	Dalton SchultzReceptions 2.5 overHOU v TEN	56.3%	missed	2
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	Sam DarnoldRush attempts 3.5 overMIN v CHI	54.3%	missed	2
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	Tyrone Tracy Jr.Rush attempts 14.5 overNYG v TB	54.1%	missed	9
2024-11-242024 · wk 12	Cade OttonReceptions 4.5 overTB v NYG	53.1%	missed	1

All 1,150 bets in the rule’s file (JSON) · no price, book, stake or profit per bet, by the file’s restriction

How this is computed

One row per bet as the file lists it: the line, the side, the de-vigged probability of that side at the close, and how it settled. A void is a player with no snap: not a bet, and not a win.

Hypothetical results · nothing here was bet · not advice · lab/nfl/presets/chase_the_streak.json, written Sun, Sep 27, 2:14 AM ET · universe built Sun, Sep 27, 2:14 AM ET · strategy 3e308f429ef5

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Every bet it made