The Brief: five picks every morning, never edited
Published at a fixed hour, sealed the moment it goes out, and never touched again. The misses stay up too.
Every day at 09:00 Colombian time, Delta publishes five picks for the day. It's called The Brief, it's public — no account needed to read it — and it runs on one rule that changes everything: once published, it isn't edited.
Why a fixed hour
Publishing whenever it suits you is the oldest trick in this industry. If you choose the moment, you can wait for prices to move, for a lineup to drop, for a match to turn favourable. The picture always comes out flattering.
A fixed hour leaves no room. At 09:00 the model hands over what it has, with the information that existed then. Not earlier, not later.
Why only five
Because a long list is an elegant way of not committing. With twenty picks a day there will always be something that landed to show off tomorrow.
Five forces a choice, and a choice can be judged.
What each pick carries
- The match, the competition and the kick-off time.
- The chosen market and the reference price.
- A written explanation of how the model got there, built from the same data the calculation used.
- After the match, the verdict: hit or miss.
What it doesn't carry: internal probabilities or the full analysis breakdown. That lives inside the app, on the match page.
Why it's sealed
This is the uncomfortable part, and the reason the whole thing exists.
A brief that can be edited informs nobody. If tomorrow you can delete the pick that went wrong, yesterday's list stops being a prediction and becomes advertising.
Sealed, each day's brief stays as it was, hits and misses included, and you can read backwards through it. That's what turns an opinion into a record.
How to use it
- As a sample, not a portfolio. Five daily picks are an example of what the model sees, not an investment plan.
- Check the price first. The Brief was calculated against the 09:00 odds. If the price has dropped by the time you read it, open the match page: the edge may be gone.
- Read it backwards too. The value of a sealed record is being able to walk through it. The bad runs are in there, and seeing them is part of knowing what to expect.
A model is judged by what it published before the match was played. That's what this is for.