Limits and rules

How Picks Are Graded

Grading is automatic. When a game finishes, Booki reads the result, scores every pick on it, and updates balances — without you doing anything.

When it happens

Shortly after a game goes final. Booki watches games that should be ending, pulls the score, grades every open pick on that game and posts the balance changes. There is nothing to trigger and nothing to confirm.

How each pick type is scored

Moneyline — did the side win.

Spread — the final margin against the line the pick was taken at.

Total — combined score against the over or under line.

Each pick is scored against the line it was taken at, not whatever the line moved to afterwards. Two members who bet the same game at different times can get different results, and that is correct.

Pushes

When a result lands exactly on the line — a 3-point win against a 3-point spread — the pick is a push. The stake is returned and nobody wins or loses. A push shows in history as a push, not a win.

Multi-picks

A multi-pick needs every leg to win. One losing leg loses the whole ticket, however well the others did.

Legs are graded individually as their games finish, then the ticket settles once every leg is in — paid at the combined odds as a single entry, not leg by leg. A ticket with a leg still to play stays open even if the others have won.

Futures are graded by hand

Season-long markets have no box score to read, so nothing can decide them automatically. When a futures market resolves, you grade it yourself.

If a result is wrong

Occasionally a feed reports something incorrectly. You can override a grade — it reverses the original result and re-settles at the correct one, and both the original and the correction stay in the audit trail. Nothing is silently rewritten.