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How many Covers contest leaders are on each side, with the public split beside it. Rebuilt every day.
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Covers Consensus
Contest leader picks and the public split for every game on today's card, with a calendar of past boards.
Recent studies
Original data work. Each page names its sample and its range, and none of them is a pick. The full set lives on the studies hub, grouped by NFL, college football and MLB.
Road underdogs at 5.5 covered 61.9 percent. At 6.5 they were 44 and 44
Eleven seasons and 2,895 NFL games. Closing 5.5 and closing 6.5 are not the same bet.
Moving an NFL team total from 18.5 to 19.5 buys 1.7 percent. To 20.5 buys 8.1 more
Eleven seasons and 5,790 NFL team games. Teams finish on 20 seven times as often as on 18.
Home Teams Score 3 Or Fewer 43.2 Percent Of The Time, Short Of -130
2,344 completed 2026 games. The home team scored 3 or fewer 43.2 percent of the time. Fenway Park is 44.0 percent. A team total under 3.5 at -130 needs 56.52 percent.
Baseball totals land on odd numbers 57.87 percent of the time
The half run on a total is not a rounding choice. It is a bet on whether the game can finish on the whole number.
Outgaining your opponent by under 50 yards is a coin flip
1,340 completed 2025 FBS games. A yardage gap under 50 came with a win only 54.87 percent of the time.
A team total under 4.5 hits 58 percent of the time, until you check who is pitching
The headline rate does not survive contact with the starter. The study names the sample and the split.
All 36 studies, by sport
NFL closing lines, college football key numbers, MLB totals and run lines. Crawlable HTML links, not a feed.
Learn
The reference library behind the tools, from how a price is built to why lines move. Everything in Learn →
How a price is built
A betting price is a probability with a fee on top. These pages take that apart in order.
Why lines move
What moves a number after it opens, who moves it, and which explanations do not survive contact with the data.
Market structure
How the market itself behaves: who makes it, how deep it is, how efficient it is, and where the operator's risk limits
Staking and risk
Sizing a bet, surviving variance, and the part that is about you rather than the market.
Bet types and situational edges
What each bet type actually costs, and which situational angles hold up.
Verified records
It does not sell picks or claim a betting record, and there is no live odds feed attached to it, so it never shows a current price. Consensus comes from Covers.com contests and is labelled as such. How every number is sourced is on the method page.