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The Ledger · Season 2026 · append-only · every row sealed before the gun

Append-only · no edits, ever

The permanent receipt

A row is written before the event with the price taken, the book, the stake and both probabilities at that moment. A correction is a new row, never an edit, so our mistakes stay on the page next to their fixes. Nothing published ever leaves this page.

Rows sealed
345
the whole log, drafts and all
Wagers
29
rows that carried money
Graded
29
settled on final scores
Standing
0
sealed, not yet graded
No Plays
28
published, never staked
Corrections
10
appended, never edited · 288 superseded drafts kept

Row by row, newest card first

The whole append-only ledger, superseded revisions and all. A card we replaced before the gun stays here forever, next to its replacement.

David Lipsky over Corey ConnersRocket Classic · Daily Card · R3 · Round 3 matchup8:15 AM ET, Aug 1+150FanDuel46.1%38.0%0u··No Play
Pick ID
NAB-5A0393B8
Sealed
8:15 AM ET, Aug 1 · revision 2, the card that stood
Sealed numbers
ours 46.1% · market 38.0% · edge +8.1 pts
Close
pending; drift posts when the market closes
Retail shelf
+150 at FanDuel
Grade
graded won, unstaked; it counts toward calibration, never the record.

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Austin Eckroat over Nicolai HojgaardRocket Classic · Daily Card · R3 · Round 3 matchup8:15 AM ET, Aug 1+162FanDuel44.5%40.1%0u··No Play
Pick ID
NAB-C1C06A13
Sealed
8:15 AM ET, Aug 1 · revision 2, the card that stood
Sealed numbers
ours 44.5% · market 40.1% · edge +4.5 pts
Close
pending; drift posts when the market closes
Retail shelf
+162 at FanDuel
Grade
graded won, unstaked; it counts toward calibration, never the record.

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Adrien Saddier over Jordan SpiethRocket Classic · Daily Card · R3 · Round 3 matchup8:15 AM ET, Aug 1+125FanDuel46.8%42.6%0u··No Play
Pick ID
NAB-7D0B3788
Sealed
8:15 AM ET, Aug 1 · revision 2, the card that stood
Sealed numbers
ours 46.8% · market 42.6% · edge +4.2 pts
Close
pending; drift posts when the market closes
Retail shelf
+125 at FanDuel
Grade
graded won, unstaked; it counts toward calibration, never the record.

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David Lipsky over Russell HenleyRocket Classic · Daily Card · R3 · Round 3 matchup8:15 AM ET, Aug 1+196DraftKings38.7%34.6%0u··No Play
Pick ID
NAB-22AB7C05
Sealed
8:15 AM ET, Aug 1 · revision 2, the card that stood
Sealed numbers
ours 38.7% · market 34.6% · edge +4.1 pts
Close
pending; drift posts when the market closes
Retail shelf
+196 at DraftKings
Grade
graded void, unstaked; it counts toward calibration, never the record.

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Chris Kirk over Xander SchauffeleRocket Classic · Daily Card · R3 · Round 3 matchup8:15 AM ET, Aug 1+154DraftKings42.0%39.1%0u··No Play
Pick ID
NAB-A774BED0
Sealed
8:15 AM ET, Aug 1 · revision 2, the card that stood
Sealed numbers
ours 42.0% · market 39.1% · edge +2.9 pts
Close
pending; drift posts when the market closes
Retail shelf
+154 at DraftKings
Grade
graded won, unstaked; it counts toward calibration, never the record.

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Rows only ever get added, so this page can only get longer. The log holds 345 sealed rows; 29 carried money.
What each state meanspush, dead heat, void, correction, No Play and pass, defined once
Standing
sealed before the gun; the market has not graded it yet.
Won / Lost
settled on the final scores, exactly as the market settles.
Dead heat
a tie under the market’s rules; the settlement splits accordingly.
Push
the market returned the stake; no units move.
Void
the market voided the play, a withdrawal being the usual reason; the stake returns.
No Play
published and graded for calibration, never staked; it carries no money and never joins the record.
Pass
a side we priced and declined to publish. A pass counts in our own accounting; the nearest misses appear on the watch list, never here as wagers.
Correction
a fact restated after the seal, as a new appended row naming its author, its time and its reason. The original stands forever.
Superseded
a pre-gun draft replaced by a later revision. It stays on the log next to its replacement.

Tournament and season results live in the track record; this is the receipt behind them, row by row, forever.