Methodology

How the College King works

An honest account of the data, the model, and — importantly — what it does and doesn't beat.

The data

Every FBS roster (136 programs, groups=80) and every skill-position player's per-game log is pulled from ESPN's public college-football feed. Season totals, per-game rates and national ranks are derived from a single canonical source, so the same number appears identically on the player page, the leaderboards and the cheat sheets.

The projection model

For each player and market we take an exponentially-weighted average of prior-game production (recent games weighted highest), then regress heavily toward a positional baseline. College football has enormous roster churn and a full off-season of staleness between slates, so a single strong prior year is a weak prior — the model leans on the league mean until fresh in-season games accumulate. Yardage markets use a normal distribution with a volatility floor; counting markets (receptions, touchdowns, completions) use a Poisson. From that distribution we compute the probability of clearing each line.

Honesty: what this is not

Sports betting markets are efficient. Our projections are published as informational leans, not CLV-validated edges. PrizePicks posts a single line with no two-way price, so there is no de-vig-able market number to "beat" — we never claim a market-beating edge, and we never publish profit, ROI or units unless a track record is genuinely, verifiably profitable. The accuracy page shows calibration only: how well our probabilities match reality.

Grading

Once the season opens, every projection is graded against realized game logs on the correct league-local date. A missed game (DNP) is a void, never a loss; a result exactly on the line is a push. Only wins and losses feed the calibration curve.

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