About the record.

A stand is public before the game starts.

A stand is one bet we say we would make: a side, a total, a teaser or a parlay. Every stand is published with the date and time it went up, the number and the price it was taken at, and one paper unit on it.

A stand locks at kickoff. Once the game starts, that stand cannot change. Not the side, not the number, not the price. Whatever is on the sheet at kickoff is what gets graded.

Before kickoff a stand can change. The change is written down.

The line moves, the price moves, sometimes a stand comes off. When that happens before kickoff, the old stand stays on the sheet exactly as it was. A new line is added under it with the time and the reason. Nothing is edited. Nothing is deleted. Ever.

So the sheet only grows. If you look at it on Friday and again on Sunday, everything you saw on Friday is still there, plus whatever happened since.

A new starting quarterback pulls the stand.

Every stand is published against the starting quarterbacks at that moment, and their names are written on it. If either team changes its starter before kickoff, every stand on that game is withdrawn, with the time, the old name and the new name. We do not re-price it and we do not pick a new side. A withdrawal is counted as a withdrawal, never as a win or a loss.

Grading comes from the final score. Only the final score.

When a game is final, each locked stand is graded against the score. A spread is graded against the margin: land on the number and it is a push. A moneyline is graded on who won; a tie pushes. A total is graded on the points. A teaser leg is graded at its teased number, and a ticket is graded from its legs under the book's push rule.

A stand is graded once and never again. If the score we have cannot honestly grade a stand, we do not guess. The stand stays on the sheet as ungraded, with the reason, until a person sorts it out.

The words on the sheet.

Published

The stand is up, with its time, its number and its price.

Pending

The game has not gone final yet. Nothing is decided.

Revised

Before kickoff, the line or the price moved and a new stand replaced this one. The old stand stays on the sheet and names its replacement. Only the replacement is graded.

Withdrawn

Before kickoff, the stand came off: a new starting quarterback, or a card that no longer carried it. It is counted as a withdrawal, not a win and not a loss.

Locked

The game has started. The stand cannot change now.

Won, lost, push

Graded from the final score. A push means the game landed on the number and the money comes back.

Ungraded

The game is over but the score we have cannot honestly grade the stand. It is listed with the reason and counts for nothing until it is settled properly.

A pass is a full answer.

Most games, we pass. That is not us being lazy. That is us looking at the number and saying it is not wrong enough to bet. A pass is published like everything else, and a quiet week stays quiet. We never pad the card to have something to sell.

The bankroll is paper.

The record runs a paper bankroll: it started at $10,000, one unit is $100, and every straight stand is one unit flat. Tickets carry their own declared stake. No real money is bet by SPOT. The bankroll curve on the record is built from the graded stands and nothing else, so anyone can add it up.

The stakes and the rules change only on a monthly review, never mid-week. A bankroll whose rules change during the season is a story, not a record.

Check us.

The record is on the board, under THE RECORD. Every stand, every change, every grade, with the time on it. If a number on this page ever disagrees with the sheet, the sheet is right and this page gets fixed.