Football · NCAA
Heisman Top-4 Favorites
Buys the 4 preseason Heisman Trophy favorites each year, holding one position from before the season until the trophy is awarded in December. Odds are real sportsbook lines for 2021-2023, real Polymarket prices for 2024-2025.
Backtested and allocation-capped — a historical result, never a promised edge.
Live · strategy average · 4 picks, equal-weighted
Equal-weighted average of every pick's real odds. Each range shows whoever was actually favored at ITS start, tracked through to now — not today's picks rewound. Not yet weighted by real dollars, since no position is bought into this strategy today; once a real purchase exists, this line becomes that position's real dollar value over time instead.
Real backtested result if this strategy had exited at an interim checkpoint, compared to actually holding to the final resolution — 1/2 profitable at final, avg final ROI +3.0%.
A consistent real edge to exiting early in both seasons tested — Week 12 2024 (+42.3%) beat its own final (+38.5%), and exiting before Championship Week 2025 (-22.6%) would have cut the real loss nearly in half versus holding to the final (-32.6%). Recommend exiting before Championship Week rather than holding to the trophy announcement.
HISTORICAL BACKTEST — NOT A GUARANTEE. A real recommendation drawn from a small number of past seasons, never a promised edge going forward.
Live price for every market this strategy currently tracks — each line is one selection. Open any of them below for its own full-resolution chart.
Source: Polymarket (gamma-api + CLOB), refreshed at most every 60 seconds. Prices are market odds, not a recommendation.
Real backtest, 25% allocation cap · Football · bankroll reset to $10,000 each period. Sportsbook years use real sportsbook lines; Polymarket years use real Polymarket prices, priced once a real market existed for this.
- Sport / competition
- Football · NCAA
- Years tested
- 2021-2025
- Total qualifying bets
- 5
- Hit rate
- 80.0%
- Average odds
- 9.52
- Average per-period ROI
- 95.7%
- Average ROI · Polymarket years
- -10.7%
- Recommended allocation cap
- 25%
HISTORICAL BACKTEST — NOT A GUARANTEE. Past hit rate and odds do not predict future results.
Choosing your own cap is coming soon — every strategy trades at its backtested recommendation for now.
Historical, not a guarantee — real results will differ.
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