How to ask MVP AI useful questions about a game

Ask MVP AI is the assistant on each full market board. It answers from the data we hold for that game: the odds and their movement, the betting splits, injury updates, weather and, for baseball, the pitching matchup, plus any published model picks on the game. It is not browsing the web, so it knows nothing that is not in that data.

That makes it good at explaining what is on the page and poor at anything outside it. It cannot tell you about news we have not collected, and it cannot see a line that moved after our last update.

Ask it to explain. "Why did this line move?" "What does the gap between tickets and money mean here?" "Which injuries on this list matter most for the spread?" These use the data it has and turn it into plain language.

Ask it to compare. "How does the away starter's recent form compare with his season line?" "What would have to be true for the underdog to be a good price?" Questions that set two numbers side by side get more useful answers than questions that ask for a winner.

Use the reading level. The assistant offers beginner, standard and advanced levels. Beginner defines terms as it goes; advanced assumes you know them.

"Who wins?" and "Is this a sure thing?" get answers that sound confident and carry no more information than the price. No answer from a model, a person or an assistant makes a bet certain. If you want our models' view, it is in the published picks, with their graded records.

Language models can state things that are not in the data, and they can do it fluently. Treat every number in an answer as a claim to check against the panels on the same page. If the assistant names an injury that is not on the injury list, or a price that is not on the board, trust the board.

It also cannot know more than our last update. Close to the start, confirm lineups and prices yourself.

Open a game page and start broad: "Summarise what moved this line today." The assistant reads the line history and the splits and describes what changed. Then narrow: "The away team's share of money is higher than its share of tickets. What does that usually mean?" Then check: "Which of these injuries are starters?"

Each answer should point to something on the page. Read the line chart, the splits and the injury list yourself after each answer, and drop anything you cannot find there.

The assistant is a good way to learn the terms in context. Ask what closing line value means for this game's price, or how the no-vig price is worked out from the moneyline on the board. Answers tied to a real game are easier to remember than definitions, and the glossary has the reference version of each term to check against.

You need to be signed in to ask. The free plan includes five questions a day, and paid plans are unlimited. If the assistant is unavailable, it says so instead of guessing.