A NAP is a tipster's single most confident selection of the day — the one they'd back above all others. If you only had one bet, the NAP is it.
Where the term comes from
It's borrowed from the card game Napoleon, where calling "nap" means betting you'll win every trick — the boldest call in the game. Racing adopted it for a tipster's strongest pick.
NAP vs Next Best vs Speculative
Most tipping services tier their selections by confidence. At Algohorse, the model's probabilities drive the tiers:
- NAP — the highest-confidence selection of the day.
- Next Best — strong selections just below the NAP.
- Speculative — lower-confidence or bigger-priced value plays.
How to use it
A NAP is the model's best read, not a certainty — even strong selections lose regularly, and a single day tells you nothing. What matters is the process over a large sample, judged honestly by closing-line value. See today's free NAP.