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Call It Strategies
Call It allows for a large variety of approaches with predictions to try and maximize success. When you first open the app it may be a bit confusing as to what you should pick, other than your “gut” feeling on any particular drive. It is important to note that while Call It algorithms do consider information such as field position and clock time, it doesn’t consider a large array of intangibles. Weather, teams and players, and game score are all included in these intangibles that Call It doesn’t account for. Using your knowledge of these intangibles is key for leveraging your advantage when making predictions in Call It. That being said there are some basic approaches you can take, and should keep under consideration regardless of how much or how little you understand about specific matchups. The Safe Play Call It provides 11 choices for drive outcome, but two of them offer very safe options for those who are nervous about losing too many points. Offensive Score and Defensive Stop are two options that cover 100% of all possible outcomes. While keeping in mind that payouts for these two options would be lowest, you are far more likely to be correct if you consistently pick one of these two options (for the record, defensive stop has a 70% likelihood if you select it on first and ten from the offenses’ twenty-five yard line). Picking one of these two options every time can be even more lucrative if you happen to know that one side’s defense or offense is particularly good, or if there is a significant underdog in a matchup. The Risk Taker On the other end of the spectrum, some users may want to play aggressively. If you don’t mind watching ads or purchasing restarts frequently, this could work in your favor quite nicely. The trick with playing aggressively is to select a more reasonable, yet still somewhat risky, drive result and go all in on it. Pick something like Field Goal or Punt, higher payout than a simple Defensive Stop or Offensive Score, but still not that unusual to get that result. If you fail this prediction, watch an ad or purchase a restart and try again. Keep doing this until you succeed, at which point you should have a fairly nice chunk of points from that single prediction. From this point onwards, make medium sized predictions on medium risk outcomes and you should hopefully be able to build up your point balance steadily. If you still want to be aggressive you can always do the hedge strategy, speaking of which… The Hedger Call It allows for more than one prediction to be made on a single drive. However, if done incorrectly you can find yourself in a situation where you lose no matter what. Since you are unable to see the exact number of points you would earn from a successful prediction, it is very possible that making two bets (or more) on separate outcomes could leave you in a wash regardless of if one of your predictions were successful. The amount of points predicted is key here. The hedge strategy allows you to stay in the game, while also being able to stay aggressive. To execute this strategy, you risk a medium amount of points on either a defensive stop or an offensive score (if you are feeling bold you could even do this with medium risk drive result options such as punts or field goals). You then make a second, smaller bet on a very high risk drive outcome, such as fumble, missed field goal, etc (we recommend not choosing safety unless you just want the achievement). You don’t need to risk much on this high risk prediction, the payout, if correct, would be massive even on a 5 point prediction. A good ratio would be 5 points on the low risk prediction for every point you place on the high risk prediction. For example, 25 points on Defensive Stop and 5 points on Missed Field Goal. With these types of hedged predictions you cover more bases, and avoid the feeling that you have already lost a prediction before the drive result has even concluded (you typically will always have a drive outcome in play until the end of the drive). You don’t have to have the high risk prediction as an opposite of the low risk prediction either. For example, you could pick Defensive Stop coupled with Fumble, so if Fumble were to happen you would get paid out on both the Defensive Stop and the Fumble. Have fun and play around with different combinations! The Salvager This is a strategy to be aware of, but obviously isn’t a core strategy by itself. The idea is to make a prediction when the drive outcome is obvious, but not yet official. For example, say a play just occurred, and the result is fourth down with fifteen yards to go on the offenses’ 30 yard line. Instantly you would know that in almost all cases, that team is going to punt. Before that next play is executed, make a sizable prediction on punt and its *some* guaranteed points. It is important to note, however, that this is fairly risky because there is a chance your prediction doesn’t get processed until after the punt has taken place, in which case your prediction will be carried over to the next time that team has a drive. If you are successful, in most cases your won points will be minimal, but almost certainly guaranteed. However, there are circumstances where the payouts from this strategy could be huge. Remember the algorithm doesn’t track things like score, so using this to your advantage could have massive payoffs. Imagine the situation on the field is fourth and sixteen from the defenses’ 25 yard line- the algorithm would likely say there is almost no chance that anything other than a field goal is likely. But you know that there is only 15 seconds left in the game, and that the offense is down by 4 points. You KNOW they aren’t going to go for a field goal. You instead select Turnover On Downs or Touch Down, either one of those is more likely than a field goal in that situation, and you have just hit the jackpot. There are plenty of other strategies to approach Call It with, these are just a few of our favorites. So go out there, play around with it, and most of all have fun!
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