- What is Phantasy?
- A decision engine for sports betting markets. A sealed model projects games from performance data, the projection is compared against live prices across the registered sportsbooks — each decision records exactly how many books priced it — and every resulting decision, bet or pass, is written to an append-only ledger before kickoff, then graded after the game against the line it was taken at. How that price compared with the market closing price is reported separately, as closing line value.
- Is this gambling?
- No. Phantasy takes no wagers, holds no funds, and pays out nothing. It is an informational and entertainment product about betting markets. Whether to bet anything at all is your decision and your responsibility, in your jurisdiction.
- Should I tail the plays?
- Treat that question with suspicion, including here. The engine publishes its record precisely so you do not have to take anything on faith: every plan can read the settled ledger of decisions, and the Sharp plan adds the audit surface over it — closing line value, calibration, drawdown, and the sample size behind every stated rate. Small samples prove nothing in either direction, most edges are small, and variance is brutal over any stretch you would actually live through. Nothing on this site guarantees an outcome.
- Why are plays shown only after the game starts?
- Because a dead line cannot be bet, and that is the point. No model slice here has yet demonstrated calibrated out-of-sample performance, so selling a live, bettable forecast would be selling advice the evidence does not support. Publishing every play after kickoff makes this a verifiable track record instead of picks: you can audit what the engine claimed before the game, forever. This applies on every plan, including the paid ones — paying buys depth on the record, not an earlier look at it. If a slice ever earns validation, that changes, and it will change with the evidence published.
- Why do you lead with closing line value instead of win rate?
- Win rate over a month is mostly coin flips. Whether the price taken beat the price the market closed at converges much faster, which makes it far harder to fake and far more predictive. It is the number professionals judge each other by, so it is the number this product leads with — and the histogram always shows its sample size.
- Where does the data come from?
- Odds and final scores come from a licensed odds aggregator, whose terms permit commercial use. NFL performance data comes from the nflverse project (CC-BY 4.0 — this product gratefully attributes nflverse). Roster and injury data may additionally come from SportsDataIO where a commercial subscription is active for that league; every row records which source it came from either way. Player photographs and team logos are not part of that data license: they load directly from the image addresses the nflverse data set publishes for each player and team — hosts operated by the league and by ESPN — and Phantasy stores only those published addresses, never the images themselves. NFL is the only league in scope: rather than pad the product with sports it cannot source properly, everything else is hidden until it has a licensed feed behind it. Every row in the database records its source, and anything the pipeline cannot verify renders as unavailable with the reason rather than as a made-up number.
- How do I cancel?
- From Account → Manage billing. Stripe shows the effective date before you confirm, and there is no minimum term or cancellation fee. Cancellation stops future renewals after that date; it does not automatically refund a completed charge. Deleting the account is available on the same page; it closes open Checkout pages and cancels live subscriptions first.
