Ask LeagueMind 101

Open Ask LeagueMind and type a question the way you would say it. It explains odds, compares books and prices parlays from live data. With a league connected, it also reads your roster and lineup, your matchup and win chance, injuries and news on your players, trade ideas, and head-to-head records and standings. The page suggests a few starters:

• What does "vig" mean?
• What are today's published edges?
• Who should I start at flex this week?
• Is this trade fair for my team?
• What's my record against my rival?
• Who on my roster is injured?

• Numbers come from tools. Every number Ask gives you comes from a tool call you can see happen while it works, not from a guess.
• Answers can be cards. Prices, lineups, trades and game reads come back as cards you can read at a glance, with the sportsbook named for every price.
• Conversations are kept. Signed-in accounts can reopen earlier conversations from History or start a New conversation.

Every account has a daily allowance of questions, and Pro's is far larger. The Pro guides cover the rest of what Pro includes.

For a game on the odds board, Ask can build a read for a spread, a total or a moneyline. The card puts the market first and our view second:

• The market's price. The consensus chance with the vig removed, the best price and the sportsbook offering it, and when it was captured.
• Movement. Where the line opened and where it is now, with a small history chart.
• Books. Every sportsbook's line and price, with the best marked. This per-book comparison is the line shopping part of Pro (how line shopping works).
• Evidence. Short rows for what is behind the read: line movement, how each team has done against the number recently (with the sample size), weather for outdoor football, injuries, and our published pick on the same market if there is one.

You can also ask about player props, for a slate (“any good bets this afternoon?”), or to price a parlay.

With a league connected (how league connections work), Ask can use your real roster and scoring:

• Lineup. Your starters, bench and IR for a week with status, opponent, kickoff and projections, and the highest-projected legal lineup as concrete start and bench swaps.
• Start or sit. A head-to-head between two to six players, yours or not, with confidence and evidence. Put every candidate in one question.
• Trades. Ideas that improve both teams' expected starting lineups, or an evaluation of a trade you describe, with a lean to accept, decline or call it too close.
• Free agents and records. The waiver pool in an ESPN league, ranked by this week's projection, and your head-to-head record against any team in your league.

Start/Sit and trade questions in Ask use the same allowance as the Start/Sit and trade pages. Pro has no weekly limit on either (the Start/Sit and Trades guide).

A game read ends in one of three states. Each signal can vote for a side, and the read counts the votes:

• Leans Over 52.5At least two signals point one way, and more than point the other way.
• Evidence splitSignals point both ways and neither side has a clear lead.
• Nothing moving yetNot enough signals have a view to lean either way.

• Signals that vote. Line movement, recent team results against the number, weather for outdoor football, and our published edge. Injuries are shown but do not vote.
• Streaks do not vote. Over and under records are shown as context with their sample size, because the books already price them in.
• There is no hidden percentage. The strength of a lean is votes for out of signals, and the market's fair chance is shown separately.
• For free accounts the card shows the market and the evidence, and the read and signal votes are part of Pro.

Fantasy answers work the same way: a trade check says accept, decline or too close with a confidence, and a start/sit shows a floor, median and ceiling for each player. These are probabilities. Ask never says “take this” or “bet that”.