PICK'EM
2026 season
Week 7
Crouch Development Labs · 2026 Season
Live database

Every pick. Locked in public. Receipts all season.

Bryan vs. the model vs. leading national NFL experts. Straight-up picks, transparent methodology, weekly commentary, and a running measurement of exactly how much Cowboys fandom costs.

Bryan
39-38
Season through Week 7
Model
49-29
Season through Week 7
National Experts
68-38
Leading CBS Sports expert · straight-up
Week 7
14/14
Bryan picks locked
Bryan's Take · Week 7

Weekly commentary will appear here when Bryan publishes it.

Bryan Crouch · Picks publish before kickoff
Integrity rule
NO HINDSIGHT EDITS.

A published pick receives a timestamp. At kickoff it becomes immutable in Postgres. The season record is the record.

2026 · Week 7

The Pick Board

14 games
Straight-up winners
NE@CHI
Thu, Oct 22, 8:15 PM EDT
Bryan
NE · LOCKED
Model
NE · Edge 21/100
Separation score, not win probability
Result
—
PIT@NO
Sun, Oct 25, 9:30 AM EDT
Bryan
NO · LOCKED
Model
PIT · Edge 42/100
Separation score, not win probability
Result
—
SF@ATL
Sun, Oct 25, 1:00 PM EDT
Bryan
SF · LOCKED
Model
SF · Edge 82/100
Separation score, not win probability
Result
—
CIN@BAL
Sun, Oct 25, 1:00 PM EDT
Bryan
CIN · LOCKED
Model
BAL · Edge 11/100
Separation score, not win probability
Result
—
TB@CAR
Sun, Oct 25, 1:00 PM EDT
Bryan
CAR · LOCKED
Model
CAR · Edge 48/100
Separation score, not win probability
Result
—
NYG@HOU
Sun, Oct 25, 1:00 PM EDT
Bryan
HOU · LOCKED
Model
HOU · Edge 50/100
Separation score, not win probability
Result
—
IND@MIN
Sun, Oct 25, 1:00 PM EDT
Bryan
MIN · LOCKED
Model
MIN · Edge 78/100
Separation score, not win probability
Result
—
MIA@NYJ
Sun, Oct 25, 1:00 PM EDT
Bryan
NYJ · LOCKED
Model
NYJ · Edge 66/100
Separation score, not win probability
Result
—
CLE@TEN
Sun, Oct 25, 1:00 PM EDT
Bryan
CLE · LOCKED
Model
CLE · Edge 37/100
Separation score, not win probability
Result
—
DEN@ARI
Sun, Oct 25, 4:05 PM EDT
Bryan
DEN · LOCKED
Model
DEN · Edge 18/100
Separation score, not win probability
Result
—
GB@DET
Sun, Oct 25, 4:25 PM EDT
Bryan
GB · LOCKED
Model
DET · Edge 8/100
Separation score, not win probability
Result
—
LAR@LV
Sun, Oct 25, 4:25 PM EDT
Bryan
LV · LOCKED
Model
LAR · Edge 30/100
Separation score, not win probability
Result
—
KC@SEA
Sun, Oct 25, 8:20 PM EDT
Bryan
SEA · LOCKED
Model
KC · Edge 59/100
Separation score, not win probability
Result
—
DAL@PHI★
Mon, Oct 26, 8:15 PM EDT
Bryan
DAL · LOCKED
Model
DAL · Edge 18/100
Separation score, not win probability
Result
—
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Totally unbiased reporting

Cowboys Corner

Bryan is a die-hard Dallas Cowboys fan. Rather than pretending that has no effect on the picks, Pick'em measures it. Every time Bryan takes Dallas against the model, the override is logged and scored.

Dallas record
2-3
Bryan overrides
4
Homer tax
+1
Bias index
100/100
Week 7: DAL at PHI. Bryan and the model both have DAL.

Bias Index = the share of published Cowboys games where the model picked against Dallas and Bryan still chose Dallas. Homer Tax = net wins lost versus the model on those completed overrides.

The experiment

Bryan vs. Model vs. National Experts

Bryan: the final human pick, informed by data and judgment.

Model: a versioned quantitative score with no fan loyalty. Its Edge score measures how far apart the teams grade in the model; it is not a claimed win probability.

National Expert Benchmark: the strongest published straight-up season record in the CBS Sports national expert panel. This is the bar Bryan and the model are chasing, not an average fan baseline. View source ↗

Read the methodology →
Under the hood

Football is the demo. The system is the point.

Pick'em combines data ingestion, scoring logic, model versioning, historical measurement, publishing, and interactive visualization. That same systems thinking is what Crouch Development applies to business operations.