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What's New in WinPicks 2.0
WinPicks Reference Manual What's New in WinPicks 2.0
If you have used WinPicks before, this chapter is for you. It lists what is new in WinPicks 2.0, one item at a time, with a pointer to the section that covers it fully. Everything else is where you left it: the menus, the dialogs and the reports are the original ones, and the parts of this manual that describe them are unchanged wherever the screens are unchanged.
- It runs in your browser. Nothing to install, no discs, no serial numbers, no weekly downloads. Point a browser at app.winpicks.net, sign in, and your formulas and settings follow you to any machine. Section 2.
- The database updates itself. Scores arrive within minutes of a game going final; schedules and postseason brackets appear when the leagues publish them; lines and totals track the market through the day. The screens that used to key data in now show it. Sections 5 and 6.
- Prices, not just lines. Every line carries the actual money odds beside it, per bookmaker. A Price Basis setting says whose prices you are shown and graded at - the market consensus, the best available number, or one named book - and it applies to every screen, including Analyze and the Tuner. The Price Basis, in section 6; Prices on the Predict Screens, in section 8.
- Odds Compare. One screen showing every bookmaker quoting a game - typically forty or more - with the best number of each market marked, how each line moved since it opened, and where the public's bets and the public's money are. Odds Compare, in section 6.
- Predict Straight Up. A third Predict grid beside Sides and Totals: the formula's outright winner for every game, priced at the money line. The original program could not offer this screen, because it had no real prices to grade a moneyline pick against. Predicting Straight Up, in section 8.
- The Home page. A front door that opens on today's games and three starting points - ask history a question, get the day's picks, build your own formula. Press Ctrl+K anywhere to jump to any screen by name. The Home Page, in section 3.
- Trend Finder. The trend engine turned around: instead of sweeping for every trend, you ask one question - Denver after two losses as a home dog - and get its record, with the honesty columns beside it. It takes plain English or a compact command language, and a Copy for LLM button hands the whole exchange to any assistant you use. Trend Finder, in section 9; a cookbook of worked commands is Appendix C.
- My Systems. Save a Trend Finder query and it is graded, from that day forward, only on games played after you saved it - an out-of-sample record that cannot be contaminated, and the closest thing this program has to a verdict. My Systems, in section 9.
- Honest tuning. The Formula Tuner gains objectives and safeguards: Best SU Units graded at real money lines, Closing Line Value as an objective, a held-out period tracked beside the fit, and a Luck Line showing what the same search would reach on pure noise. Section 8.5 and the two sections after it.
- Forge. A formula designer that starts from a question - which market, over what period, judged on what - and writes an ordinary formula you can tune and edit like any other. It supersedes the SureLock Formula Wizard. Forge, in section 8.
- Weather, measured. Pro Football Analyst adds a Weather Board - the conditions at kickoff for every game on the date - and a Weather Lab that tests every wind, cold and rain cut-off against the betting line, then re-tests the winners on games they never saw. The Trend Finder gains weather filters on the same data. The Weather Board and the Weather Lab, in section 7.
- Your account. Formulas, saved trends, systems, tuner settings and your price basis live with your account, not with a machine. Subscriptions are per package and take effect immediately. Section 12.
Added since the first 2.0 release, September 2026. The program is maintained on the server, so these were simply there one morning. Each is described in the section it points to.
- Evidence stars on the Platinum Page. Every rated play carries one to five stars for how much data sits behind it - trend games, head-to-head meetings, how recent, whether any of it is scoped to this line, whether the methods agree, and the formula set's own record this season - with the breakdown printed beside it. It scores the evidence, not the chance of winning. The Platinum Page, in section 8.
- Net Units at real prices. Analyze Platinum Picks and This Week's Edges grade money at the prices on file rather than a flat -110, and a REAL / PRICED column says how many of the bets carried a recorded price. Analyze Platinum Picks, in section 8.
- College football favourites of 7 or more. A College Football Analyst Platinum Play where the favourite lays 7 or more points now takes the opposite side to the engine's own pick, and the page says so. The Platinum Page, in section 8.
- Details, extended. The detailed prediction window's 32 statistics are followed by every other statistic the feed holds for the two teams, ranked by how well each has predicted the winning margin. Pro and college football. Making Detailed Predictions, in section 8.
- Formula Inputs. Any statistic in the feed can be made a formula input, and the Tuner fits its weight. Pro football, college football and pro basketball. Formula Inputs, in section 8.
- Predict Agents. Formulas that reason: each agent predicts both teams' score from the pregame record, blind agents without ever seeing the market, and the grid shows every number with the plays in colour. Predict Agents, in section 8.
- This Week's Edges. One ranked board of the trend states each side of each game is currently in, with the record, the side, and the money. This Week's Edges, in section 9.
- Injury Report, and who is out. The full designation list under ADD-INS, and the players who are OUT printed on the price panel of every game on the Predict and Platinum screens. Professional sports only. Injury Report, in section 6.
- Live Scores. A strip of the games in progress across the top of the Predict and Platinum screens. Live Scores, in section 3.
- Report a problem. On the HELP menu: describe what happened, paste a screenshot, send. Getting Help, in section 10.
- Export to Excel, for real. EXPORT GAMES writes a genuine .xlsx workbook, columns already typed. Exporting Data, in section 10.
- Consensus runs each formula on its own database. Which is why a consensus column can differ from Predict Sides for the same formula. Making Consensus Predictions, in section 8.
- Trend Seeker is listed as TREND SEEKER (CLASSIC) on the TRENDS menu, to tell it from the Trend Finder beside it. Nothing about it changed. Section 9.
- Babe of the Week, on the ADD-INS menu, for members. The Add-Ins Menu in section 10.
Retired, and explained where they stood: keying in scores and lines, weekly downloads, the Formula Warehouse, and the SureLock wizard - each of their sections says what replaced it and why. Gone without needing a chapter: the built-in web browser (you are in a better one), the screen-font setting (use your browser's zoom), and the local data directory (the menu item now opens Data Sources - see section 10).