The Daily Grind

Monday, May 18, 2026

Underdogs covered the runline 9-5 and won outright 7-7 across 14 graded games. Below: the slate result, the plays our models fired — full stake and reduced (provisional) stake — and the games our discipline guard told us to pass.

9-5
Underdog Runline
7-7
Underdog Outright
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Actionable Plays

Actionable plays

SideStakeResult
White SoxFull stakeLost

Actionable plays we fire pre-game: full-confidence (Rule A/B) plays at standard stake. Provisional plays carry a smaller stake while that model is still proving out.

Model track record (season to date)

ModelRunline recordCover %
Full-stake plays (Rule A/B)33-1175.0%
Reduced-stake plays (line-cooling)23-1560.5%

How to read this: the totals above are season-to-date and include our pre-launch backtest (Mar 27–May 11), when these rules were still being fit to past data — so they overstate what was bettable in real time. The honest out-of-sample record, since the rules locked on May 12: full-stake plays 5-4 (55.6%), reduced-stake plays 11-8 (57.9%). Records are recomputed straight from our logged game-by-game data every night. Stand-down (WATCH) results — 1-0 this season — are excluded entirely, even though they'd improve the headline.

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