PARLAY2026

How this is scored

Juice Added

the main board

Every pick is scored as if it were also a standalone $100 bet. Your guy scores, you win the plus-money. He doesn’t, you drop a hundred.

PriceHitsMisses
-300+33−100
-130+77−100
+100+100−100
+250+250−100
+450+450−100
+1000+1000−100

A miss always costs the same hundred. A hit pays what the book was paying, which is the whole point: chalk is worth almost nothing. Hit a −300 lock and you bank 33. Hit a +1000 shot and you bank a thousand.

Why it's fair

nobody gets an edge from strategy

It’s break-even by design. Take −300 locks every week and you’d expect about 13.5 hits at +33 against 4.5 misses at −100 — which nets zero. Take +1000 shots every week and you’d expect 1.6 hits at +1000 against 16.4 misses — also zero.

So playing it safe earns you nothing and swinging costs you nothing. The only thing that moves your number is being right. That’s why the old “most losses buys dinner” rule got scrapped — it paid you to take a lock every week and add nothing to the parlay.

The season so far

the maths, on real numbers
Matt Kaplan+77

1 hit, 0 missed

PJ-29

1 hit, 1 missed

Hunter Nemec-100

0 hit, 1 missed

Buzzkill

the separate shame board

If a slip dies with exactly one miss, that person ate the whole payout on his own. The board tracks the real money it cost — the stake times the parlay price the book actually gave you.

Two or more misses and nobody gets singled out; that’s a group failure. It’s deliberately kept off the main board so one unlucky week can’t wreck an otherwise good season.

The stakes

settled at the end of the year
  • Last place in Juice Added buys dinner.
  • Most money torched buys the drinks that night.

House rules

the fine print
  • One slip a week, three legs, one each. No reloads — Week 1 had one before that was settled, which is why it shows two slips.
  • No odds floor. Take any price you like — chalk already scores almost nothing, so there’s no need to ban it.
  • A voided leg (inactive, postponed) drops out and scores zero.
  • A miss costs −100 whatever the price was, so a losing leg never needs its odds recorded.