Live odds
Real spreads, totals and moneyline prices land on every slate automatically, and Pooldit tracks the market for as long as picks are open. Nobody types a number in, and nobody plays off a spread somebody copied down wrong.
Pooldit is not a gambling site — no real money, ever. Nothing to deposit, nothing staked, nothing to cash out. Pools play for dits, an in-app currency that keeps score of whatever your group already agreed on.
No spreadsheet
The oldest chore in an office pool is one person copying numbers off a screen into a spreadsheet, getting one of them wrong, and hearing about it until January. Pooldit pulls consensus sportsbook odds itself: every game arrives with its spread, its total and its moneyline prices already attached, and the market is re-checked on a two-minute cycle for as long as picks are open. So the numbers your survivor pool or your confidence pool plays off are the numbers the market actually had — not house lines that quietly favour whoever wrote them.
What a moving market then does to your sheet depends on the format, deliberately. A PickEm, Confidence or Survivor pool locks one line for the whole week the moment that week opens, so everybody is judged against the same number and nobody wins by refreshing at the right minute. An Allowance or Pick X sheet stays live to each deadline, because there you are pricing a wager and the price is the point.
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Our own consensus sportsbook feed, plus automatic scoring several times an hour. A two-minute cycle, not a ticker — this is a pool, not a trading screen.
Fair and auditable
Lines move — that is their point. So the instant you submit, Pooldit stores the line and the price exactly as they stood, and never rewrites them.
Take a team at -3 on Wednesday and watch it close at -6.5, and you are still graded at -3. Whoever waited is graded at what they took. Nobody gets retroactively moved onto a worse number, every entry can be audited afterwards, and being early is worth something. And if a market is not fully quoted when you submit, Pooldit refuses the pick rather than inventing a placeholder price: a made-up number that grades like a real one is worse than no pick at all.
One exception, named rather than buried: a Pick X leg set to float resolves against the line at kickoff, because that is what float means. Everywhere else, the snapshot is the grade.
Line intelligence
Every game keeps its openers next to its live number, on two baselines: where the line stood when your week opened, and where the sportsbook itself opened it. So the direction a game has moved reads right off the pick sheet, on the side that moved, instead of being something you had to be watching for.
A picking agent can read it too. A confidence strategy can be written as plainly as this: “assign my confidence picks high to low based on teams that received the best moneyline odds improvements since our pool lines were posted.” There is a built-in version as well — Line Surge takes the side the market moved toward, and in a confidence pool orders your units by the size of that move.
Money arriving on one side all week is a real fact about that game, and a pool that hides it is throwing away the most interesting thing on the screen.
Custom strategies and Line Surge come with Players Club; movement itself is visible to every player either way. Spread and moneyline moves feed the agents — totals movement is shown for your own reading rather than used as a condition.
Play money
Every pick is graded against what the book would have paid at the price you actually took. That is what unit ROI measures: how your season would have gone at real sportsbook odds, with a favorite you had to lay -240 on counting for precisely what it was worth and not a point more.
Which makes Pooldit a free, play-money sportsbook simulator you can run year-round with people you know — in an office pool, in a survivor pool, or in an Allowance pool where everyone gets a budget of nits — that pool’s own play-money currency — each week to spread across moneylines, spreads and totals. Same lines, same prices, same math. No money.
Worth naming, because the phrase brings up a whole category of standalone play-money simulator apps: Pooldit is not one of those. It is not a solo practice tool where you place fake plays on your own and an app-wide leaderboard you have no connection to keeps the score. It is a pool — your commissioner, your invite link, your weekly deadline, your standings, and a season history that carries over. The prices are the same real ones either way. What changes is who you are playing against, and whether beating them means anything on Monday.
It is the second axis of your record, too: Ditpull is how you really stack up against your friends, and unit ROI is how the same picks did against the market.
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No real money, ever. Pooldit never takes, holds, or moves it. Real lines and prices are shown because they make the picks more interesting and let us grade your performance honestly, not because anything is being staked on this site.
They come from our own consensus sportsbook feed, and no. Every game on the slate arrives with its spread, its total and its moneyline prices already attached, and Pooldit re-checks the market on a two-minute cycle for as long as picks are open. What happens to the number on your sheet depends on the format: a PickEm, Confidence or Survivor pool locks one line for the week so everyone is judged against the same number, while an Allowance or Pick X sheet stays live to each deadline because there the price is the point.
Nothing. The instant you submit, Pooldit records the line and the price exactly as they stood at that moment and never rewrites them. If you took a team at -3 on Wednesday and it closed at -6.5, you are graded at -3, and whoever waited is graded at what they took. Every entry in the pool stays auditable after the fact, and being early is worth something. The one deliberate exception is a Pick X leg set to float, which resolves against the line at kickoff, because that is what float means. If a market is not fully quoted when you submit, Pooldit refuses the pick rather than inventing a price for it.
It works like one, and no — Pooldit is not a gambling site and never handles real money. There is nothing to deposit, nothing staked, and nothing to cash out. Pools play for dits, an in-app currency that keeps score of whatever your group already agreed on. What makes it feel like the real thing is the grading: every pick is scored against what the book would have paid at the price you took, so unit ROI tells you how your season would have gone at real sportsbook odds, for free, with people you know, all year round.
Yes. Every game keeps its openers next to its live number — where the line stood when your week opened, and where the sportsbook itself opened it — so the direction a game has moved shows up right on the pick sheet. A picking agent can read it too: the built-in Line Surge strategy takes the side the market moved toward and orders your confidence units by the size of the move, and a custom agent can be written around odds improvements in plain English. Spread and moneyline moves are what the agents read; totals movement is shown for your own reading. Movement is visible to every player; Line Surge and custom agents come with Players Club.
Picking agents
Live lines are an input. Build an agent that acts on them and it makes your picks before the deadline, whether or not you were watching when the number moved.
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