About Nick's Picks

Nick's Picks is an independent UFC scoring project. Each card is a locked JSON file: a profile comparison, a short modifier stack, a pick, and — after the event — a result.

It is built to look like a sports analytics desk, not a sportsbook. There is no login, no CMS, no database, and no odds API. If a number is on the page, it came from a file in this repo.

The point

Most fight previews hide the work. This one shows enough to be honest: the expand panel, the modifiers, the gap, the confidence badge that falls out of how separated the profiles are. When the pick is wrong, the miss stays on /results.

The public methodology page is intentionally non-exhaustive. It explains how to read the site. It does not publish a copyable scoring cookbook.

Domain

The planned public domain is nickpicksufc.com. It is not configured here. Do not treat this deployment as the live hostname until DNS actually points at it.

What you will not find

• Betting links, odds widgets, or unit advice
• Auth, accounts, or a write UI
• A public recipe that rebuilds the model from scratch
• A claim that placeholder seed cards are real Nick Picks

The current card is UFC 331 (ufc-331-2026-09-19.json). The UFC Shanghai file in content/cards is an unpublished layout fixture, not a public results ledger.

Stack

Next.js 15 App Router, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, MDX for this page and Methodology. Vercel-ready: npm run build, no extra adapter.