Reading your activity feed
Your picks, results, pool changes and sign-ins in one list, and how to read a row.
What the feed shows
The feed merges five sources — your picks, your week and season results, pool changes, friend activity and account events — into one dated list of things that already happened on your account.
Three names point at the same page. The left sidebar says Activity Feed, the heading on the page says Activity, and the address is /activity_feed. There is one feed, and that is it.
- Picks — a pick you made, a quick pick, a pick you changed, an autopick, a pick your manager made for you, and survivor picks.
- Results — a week you finished, a season you finished, and a playoff result.
- Pools — a pool you created, joined, were invited to, asked to join, left, declined, or were removed from.
- Friends — a friend request you received, a friend request you sent, and a friend added.
- Account — signing in, a failed sign-in, your account being created, a password reset you requested, and a password change.
Rows sit under day headings: Today, Yesterday, then the weekday and date for earlier days this year, and the full date with the year for anything older. Newest first is the default order.
The page keeps itself current. A new pick, a pool change or a friend update arrives without a reload, and the four tiles at the top recount at the same time.
What one row means
A row is a sentence saying who did what, then a line of badges carrying the pool, the week and the outcome, with the local time on the right — and when the event has a page, the whole row is a link to it.
The sentence reads actor, then verb, then subject: You picked SEA over NE, Autopick picked DAL, Your manager picked KC. The actor is you, Autopick, your manager, or us. When the row is about a game, that game's start time follows after a dash.
- The icon tile on the left is tinted by the kind of event, so picks, results, pool changes, friend rows and account rows are told apart before you read.
- The grade badge reads Won, Lost or Push, and appears only once the game is settled. A pick that is still pending carries no badge at all, and the final score sits beside the badge once there is one.
- The pool chip names the pool the row belongs to. It is dropped when the whole feed is already filtered to one pool.
- The week chip reads Week N — the week the pick or the result belongs to.
- The spread chip is the line on the team you picked. Pools that do not use spreads never show it.
- The confidence chip is the points you assigned to that pick, and appears in confidence pools only.
- Small tags say how the pick was made: Changed, Quick pick, Autopick, By manager, Survivor. A pick you made by hand carries none of them. An award shows as a +25 SportBucks chip.
The spread chip is the line as it stood at the moment you picked. Your pick is graded against the game's spread, which can move after you pick, so a row can show -3.0 for a pick that was settled against -4.5.
Why a line moves between your pick and kickoff
Times use your browser's timezone, detected on each visit rather than saved as a preference, and falling back to Pacific time when it cannot be read. Hover a time for the full date. Times on rows for leaving, declining or being removed from a pool are approximations taken from when the membership record last changed, not from the moment itself.
The four numbers up top
The four tiles above the list — Pick record, Picks made, Awards and Active pools — describe your whole account, and they do not change when you filter or page the list below them.
Filtering does not move these numbers. Narrow the list to one pool and a record of 12-6 is still your record across every pool, not that pool's. The tiles describe you; the list below describes the filter.
Before any of your picks settle, Pick record shows a dash and the line under it reads no settled picks. A pending pick counts towards neither side of the record until the game is final.
Awards are counted in SportBucks, which are the app's play money for tracking wins. They are not real currency, and Sportpoolz is not a real-money gambling product.
Filtering and paging
Six tabs, a pool selector, a team box, a week box and a Newest/Oldest toggle narrow the feed, and it shows 25 rows at a time with Newer activity and Older activity buttons.
The tabs run All, Picks, Results, Pools, Friends, Account. The pool selector sits in the page header and starts at All pools. On the Picks tab a second row of chips narrows by how each pick was made: Everything, Manual, Quick, Changed, Autopicks, By manager, Survivor. The Friends and Account tabs clear the pool selector when you switch to them, because those rows do not belong to a pool.
A filter a row cannot answer removes that row rather than being ignored: filter by team and only picks remain, because a sign-in has no team. On the Results tab a week keeps weekly results and drops season and playoff rows for the same reason. Switching tabs clears the filters the new tab cannot use, so a tab never opens empty for a reason you cannot see.
A Clear button appears beside the sort toggle as soon as anything is filtered. Every part of the state — tab, chip, pool, team, week, sort and page — lives in the address bar, so any view you build can be bookmarked or sent to someone as a link.
Paging is 25 rows at a time, with Newer activity and Older activity buttons and a Page N label. There is no infinite scroll and no numbered page list, so the Newest/Oldest toggle is the quick way to reach the far end of your history.
If there is no Friends tab, friends are switched off for this site. The tab and every friend row are removed together — they are not hidden behind a filter you can clear.
What the feed does not show
The feed is assembled from records the app already keeps, so it only shows things that have happened — it is not a notification centre, and some events have no row at all.
Nothing is written to a feed table. Each visit reads your picks, your results, your pool memberships, your friend records and your sign-in history, then merges them into one list. A row exists only where one of those records exists.
- Other people's activity. The feed is your own account's timeline, not a pool-wide stream.
- Signing out, a session refreshing, a session expiring. The Account tab is deliberately limited to signing in, a failed sign-in, your account being created, a password reset you requested, and a password change.
- Emails. There is nowhere in the app to see which emails were sent to you.
- Score corrections and other game updates. The feed reserves a kind for them, but nothing writes one today.
- Changes you make on your profile. The account rows are the five listed above; editing your name or your email preferences adds nothing here.
The feed is a record, not an alert. There is no notification centre and no bell anywhere in the app. What stands in for notifications is email, the count badges in the sidebar — pending invites and join requests on Pools, and pending friend requests on My Friends where friends are switched on — and the messages that appear briefly after an action.
So if a pick or a result is missing here, the record behind it is what is missing — the feed reports records, it does not create them. Check the pool itself rather than the feed.
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