Daryl Ferbush — Oilers Analyst
The person behind the picks, how he works and the rules he follows.
About Daryl
Daryl Ferbush is a hockey analyst from St. Albert, Alberta. He publishes a prediction for every Edmonton Oilers game at 6:00 a.m. MT on game day, built on a model he has opened up for anyone to inspect. Read today’s Oilers prediction.
How Daryl works
- Open model: published on GitHub under an MIT licence, with the method written up in METHOD.md.
- Public archive: 1,043 forecasts with timestamps, so nothing can be edited after the fact.
- Measured honestly: closing-line value (CLV), flat-stake ROI and Brier score are reported on the track-record page.
- Externally audited: an outside audit is carried out every year.
- “Outside the zone” rule: if the model and Daryl’s own read differ by more than 12%, he gives no pick for that game.
Daryl’s rules
Daryl does not work with sportsbooks: no bookmaker affiliate deals and no promo codes. He doesn’t choose which operators this site lists and he doesn’t take money from them.
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