Results, in plain English
One rulebook, applied to every record-eligible pick, with the losses left in.
Plain English
The Empire keeps one aggregate record and a separate scorecard for each lane. Classic sides, moneylines, spreads, totals, player props, Player Assist directions and NFL Pick 'Em all count toward it. A pick is timestamped when it publishes, before the outcome is known, and then graded win, loss, push, void, manual review or still-pending under the same rules every time. Deliberately excluded: EZ Picks and User Lotto tickets, which are paper-only member tickets, and superseded revisions, so a pick that was updated is not counted twice.
New to any of this? Read the plain-English glossary — model, agent, hallucination, backtest, edge, closing line and the rest, defined in one place.
Questions people actually ask
Every record-eligible pick is timestamped at publication, before the outcome is known, and then graded against one consistent rulebook once the event settles. The results page shows one aggregate record plus a separate scorecard per lane, and it keeps wins, losses, pushes, voids, manual reviews and still-pending selections all visible rather than reporting a single flattering number.
A win is an outcome that beat the exact number published, a loss is one that did not, and a push is a tie at that number — graded as neither, because nothing would have changed hands. A void is a selection that never had a fair chance to settle, such as a cancelled event or a player who did not take the field, and it is removed rather than counted as a win.
Yes, always, next to the wins. A record that hides its misses measures nothing, so losses, pushes, voids and cases sent to manual review all stay on the page permanently. The original published output is preserved too: when something goes wrong it is investigated and explained, but the history is not edited afterwards to look better.
The closing line is the price the market settled at just before an event started. Comparing the price a pick was published at against the close shows whether the market moved toward that side. It matters because a single result is mostly luck, while repeatedly publishing at better numbers than the close is evidence that shows up long before a win-loss record does.
A backtest measures how a method would have done over history, and it is easy to flatter because the method was designed by someone who already knew the outcomes. This record is live: each pick was published and timestamped before anything was known, so it cannot be retuned afterwards. That is a weaker-looking but far more honest number.
Because they are member-built paper tickets, not released Empire selections. EZ Picks slips are built by members from an independent model pool, qualify in their own lane, and never require official grading or wire publication — so counting them would inflate the record with tickets no desk ever stood behind. They keep their own separate lane instead.
No. Past results do not predict future outcomes, and any record over a short run is dominated by luck rather than skill. What an open, consistently graded record tells you is narrower: whether this operation publishes before outcomes are known, applies the same rules every time, and admits its misses. That is a reason to trust the reporting, not a reason to expect profit.
Past results do not predict future outcomes. Sports betting content is for entertainment and analysis, is never a guarantee, and is 21+ where legal — if gambling stops being fun, call 1-800-GAMBLER.