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Are you ready for some football? Happy 2026 NFL season to everyone. Clearly there have been major changes to the site, hopefully all for the better, so let’s run them.
After the 2025 season it was decided to make some major changes and upgrades to the site. Think 10,000 monkeys at typewriters and one eventually produces Shakespeare. WIth the ability to create, store and grade thousands or millions of algorithms, some of them will beat the 52.4% ATS record to be profitable.
This leads to a group collectively working to beat Vegas. The site leaderboard will track and display the best algorithms against the spread, and every member can download their picks.
To build algorithms, you can choose the year of over 300 stats to use and you can weigh each stat however you want.
To test algorithms, you can run them through a historical simulator that shows how the algorithm would have performed in every year from 2018 to present. Once it’s dialed in, publish it and it’s picks will automatically be produced and graded every week.
Want to change an algorithm formula? No problem, fork the algorithm and its record pre and post changes are recorded so you can see if the formula tweak worked.
Let’s run through the major features and their status starting with the ones that are live now:
Create Power Ratings Algorithms & Pick Every Game Against Vegas Spreads
Users can now create power ratings algorithms and have the algorithm graded vs the Vegas line for every game, every week. You now get to do what the site has always done; create power ratings using stats and predicting games based on those power ratings.
Teamball
Teamball is our free fantasy football game. What makes it different? In Teamball, you pick 8 teams each week as your roster. Each NFL team can be used 5 times during the season so choosing the teams to use each week is a strategic analysis of matchups and scheduling. No Draft and with scoring similar to traditional fantasy football.
Stats
There are now nfl stats for every team, game matchups and box scores. As a bonus, much of it is visualized into graphs, charts, and tables. If you like stats, just poke around a bit and you should be quite happy.
Free Membership vs Paid
There are four tiers to membership. Membership affects how many algorithm slots and downloads per week a user is granted.
Free – 1 Algorithm slot / 0 Downloads
$3 / week – 3 Algorithm slots / 3 downloads per week
$5/ week – 5 Algorithm slots / 5 downloads per week
$10 / week – 10 Algorithm slots / 10 downloads per week & option to make Algorithm picks private
Downloading Picks
Membership grants the ability the upcoming game picks from other user algorithms. Thus every member can download the picks from any other algorithm. The algorithm’s formula is never shown, but its power ratings and picks are available for downloading, and its picks will be graded each week.
Share Your Ratings
You can create links that can send people to your team power ratings, your algorithm stats, and more.
Coming Soon:
Offensive Line ratings & Rankings
You can do the same kind of Offensive Line rankings and ratings like we do. Just like the algorithm builder for power ratings, pick the stats, weigh them, and calculate the offensive line ratings and rankings for every team each week.
QB Score
You can do the same ratings and rankings for quarterbacks. Again, just pick the stats, weigh them, and see your QB ratings and rankings calculated and recorded every week.
More Positional Ratings & Rankings
We have formulas for defensive lines and wide receivers that we have used before, but these need a bit more baking time during 2026.
Injuries & Weather
One thing stat based algorithm don’t handle well are injuries or weather. We are working on a way to allow for power rating deductions for injuries and weather. This will allow users to adjust team(s) power ratings to account for injuries and weather. It will also allow for temporary one time deductions and multiple week deductions in case of key injury. This allows for ratings to immediately account for the injury while the stats to catch up to the injury’s effect.
Prizes
The users with the best performing algorithms and Teamball teams will be granted free membership for all of 2027! We want to keep and reward the best handicappers and fantasy players. Prove it on the leaderboards and we will give you a golden ticket to 2027!
Please excuse the bugs and issues along the way. Report any you find to info@nfllines.com and we’ll get right on them.
Enjoy the site!