Pick Data, WCS, Tiers, and Glossary Terms

WagerWatchdog turns messy social betting posts into structured, scoreable data. This article explains the common fields you see across tables, profiles, and analytics.

Anatomy of a Pick

• Subject — Player, team, or market subject.
• Sport — League/sport such as NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL, CFB, MBB, or CBB.
• Category — The stat or market type, such as points, rebounds, strikeouts, spread, moneyline, or over/under.
• Direction — Over, under, or another market direction.
• Value/Line — The target number when applicable.
• Timestamp — When the pick was posted.
• Outcome — Pending/open, correct, incorrect, or push.

WagerWatchdog Credibility Score (WCS)

WCS is WagerWatchdog's proprietary credibility score. It is designed to be more useful than raw win percentage by accounting for sample size, recency, difficulty, and consistency. You will see WCS on Home leaderboards, Expert Ratings, profiles, sport cards, Hot Picks average WCS, and other surfaces.

Expert Tiers

Tier badges summarize credibility bands where the backend has enough data to assign one. Tiers can appear next to experts in leaderboards, profiles, and hot-pick average WCS contexts.

Win Rate

Win rate is usually wins divided by settled picks. Pushes and pending picks are excluded from most win-rate calculations. Some pages explicitly call out a specific time window, such as yesterday, rolling 7 days, current calendar month, or all time.

Sport Codes

• pfb = NFL/pro football.
• cfb = college football.
• nba = NBA.
• wnba = WNBA.
• mbb = NCAA men's basketball.
• mlb = MLB.
• cbb = NCAA baseball, not college basketball.
• nhl = NHL.

How Picks Are Collected and Scored

1. WagerWatchdog crawls monitored sources.
2. Messages are extracted and parsed for picks.
3. Players, teams, categories, sports, and lines are normalized.
4. Picks are matched to games or stat events.
5. Completed picks are scored using final results.