Tutorial: Homer AI Chat for PuckPredict

Everything PuckPredict knows, one question away. Homer AI Chat answers about tonight's slate, a single skater, the goal scorer board, goalies, lines and power-play units, the market and even your own custom tags. Not sure where something lives on the site? Ask that too. This walkthrough covers how to open the chat, how to ask, and what it is (and is not).

What's covered

• What Homer AI Chat is

• Opening the chat: suggestions, expand and the microphone

• Tonight's slate and the goal scorer board

• Shots, points, assists and power-play points

• One skater: form, trends and streaks

• Goalies, lines and defense vulnerability

• Prices, sharp reads and the Boost Finder

• Parlays and betslips

• Live games

• Finding your way around

• The question-mark menu: what Homer AI can do

What Homer AI Chat is

Homer AI Chat is a chat window built into PuckPredict. Type a question in plain English and it answers from the site's own data for tonight: the boards, the game matchups, the injury report, goalie and line stats, market prices and the live tracker. If a feature is on the site, you can usually ask about it here.

It describes what the boards and the market show. It does not give betting advice or guarantees, and it answers from PuckPredict's stored data only, with no career or lifetime stats.

Opening the chat

On every PuckPredict page there is a round purple Homer AI button in the lower right corner, beside the Starred Plays tray. The button appears for subscribers. Click it to open the chat. It opens as a window in the corner of the screen, or as a sheet on a phone, and the conversation stays put when you close it or move to another page.

A new chat offers suggested questions such as "Who scores tonight?", "Where is the value on the goal board tonight?" and "Which games are on tonight?". Tap one to send it, type your own, or use the microphone button to dictate on browsers and devices that support it.

Along the top are a question-mark button that lists what Homer AI can do, an expand button for a larger window, and a close button. Once a conversation is under way, a New Chat button starts over.

Tonight's slate and the goal scorer board

Ask which games are on, with start times, venues and live scores. Ask for the anytime goal probabilities and grades of any skater on tonight's slate, with season and recent goal counts, the market consensus and the best available price with the sportsbook name. The First Goal board is covered too: each skater's chance to score the game's first goal beside the market.

• "Who scores tonight?"

• "What is the best price on the top goal scorer read?"

• "Who has the best chance to score first in the Bruins game?"

You can also ask what everyone is on tonight: the most-starred player props, ranked by how many subscribers starred each.

Shots, points, assists and power-play points

Each of these boards has a chat read: projected totals for any skater, the chance of clearing each milestone, the market's line and the model's chance of clearing it, and the best available price. For points and assists you can also ask how a skater's line or defense pair has done together recently, and for power-play points how his power-play unit has done.

One skater

Ask for a skater's recent form over his last 5 and last 10 games, the season to date and last season, or how often he has gone over tonight's line this season, head to head and over recent games. Ask for tonight's Trends board, stat leaders on the slate, or the longest active streaks. Ask for his linemates over his last 12 games, or his shot zones against tonight's opponent.

• "How has Connor McDavid been trending on shots on goal?"

• "Who is on the longest goal streak right now?"

Goalies, lines and defense vulnerability

Ask about tonight's starting goalies, marked confirmed, likely or projected, or about one goalie's season and recent starts. Ask for a team's forward lines, defense pairs and power-play and penalty-kill units for a game, and how each has done together. The Defense Vulnerability Report is in chat too: tonight's defenses by tier, and the skaters to target against each.

Prices, sharp reads and the Boost Finder

• Book-by-book prices for goals, shots on goal, points, assists, blocked shots, power-play points and goalie saves

• First goal scorer prices across books

• Game lines for tonight: moneyline, puck line and total, both sides, with the best price and book

• Sharp opportunities and the records behind them

• Biggest line moves since the open

• The Boost Finder: tell Homer your sportsbook boost, like a 50% profit boost at a given book, and get the plays it converts best

Name a team or a skater and the answer narrows to that game or that skater.

Parlays and betslips

Ask for a parlay and Homer AI builds three for tonight's slate, each leg with the best sportsbook price and the parlay's chance of hitting. Say "slip that parlay" and Homer AI turns it into an openable betslip, with every leg checked against what the books are posting. You can also slip game lines, such as a moneyline or a puck line.

Live games

During games, ask for live goals as they happen, tonight's goal count, or live skater stat lines. Name a skater for his goals and assists tonight, or a team for its game.

Finding your way around

Ask "Where can I find the goal scorer model?" and Homer AI replies with a link to the right page. If something on the site or your account is broken, describe the problem and Homer AI sends it to the support team, with the reply going to your account email. Ask about baseball and Homer AI hands you over to HomerunPredict.

The question-mark menu

The question-mark button opens a list of everything Homer AI can do, grouped by topic, with a Good to know section at the bottom. It is the quickest way to see the full range when you are not sure what to ask.

Daily usage limits apply to keep the service fast for everyone.

Open the feature: Homer AI (the chat launcher lives on every PuckPredict page)

Must be 21 or older. Please play responsibly.