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Minnesota Vikings at Tampa Bay Buccaneers: our pick

We called the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 55%, locked Aug 31, 8:47 PM ET, 26 days before kickoff.

Final: Minnesota Vikings 23–16 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Wrong.

Why this pick?

Our 55% is the betting market's own price for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 2 sportsbooks' prices, averaged, with their margin taken out. It is not a secret model.

Since we locked it the market moved 7.2 points away from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Our last 4 graded calls on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 2 right.

At 55%, a pick like this still loses about 45 times in 100.

What we add is timing: we watch this game live and email members when the pick pulls well ahead, so they can check the cash-out at their own sportsbook.

No cash-out alert fired on this game.

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