🧬 STACK CORRELATION
Which legs actually move together
Which pairings genuinely rise and fall together, which are independent, and which the book has already priced as correlated so the edge is gone before you build.
🧬 Correlation Calculatorstack strength
Stack correlation—
🪢 Same-game stacks correlate — both hit big when the game goes the way you expect. Uncorrelated players just add variance without the payoff.
Why this number matters
A quarterback and his top receiver move together. A quarterback and the opposing kicker do not, whatever it feels like. Correlation is what turns a set of separate bets into one bet with a bigger ceiling, and pricing it wrong is the most common way a stack quietly fails.
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