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NFL Spread History Database: 7,548 Games of Closing Lines (1999–2026) as CSV

One CSV with every NFL game from 1999 through the 2026 schedule, each row carrying the closing point spread, total, and moneyline recorded for that game. Next to it sit 861 team-season rows with ATS and over/under records, so you can pull a team's ATS history season by season without writing a single join. Five rows from the 2025 season are on this page exactly as they sit in the file. The pack is raw historical NFL betting data for your own analysis: no dashboard, no account, no advice about what to bet.

Five sample rows

game_id	gameday	away	away_score	home	home_score	spread_line	total_line	away_ml	home_ml
2025_01_DAL_PHI	2025-09-04	DAL	20	PHI	24	8.5	47.5	330	-425
2025_01_KC_LAC	2025-09-05	KC	21	LAC	27	-3	47.5	-175	145
2025_01_TB_ATL	2025-09-07	TB	23	ATL	20	-1.5	47.5	-115	-105
2025_01_CIN_CLE	2025-09-07	CIN	17	CLE	16	-5.5	47.5	-238	195
2025_01_MIA_IND	2025-09-07	MIA	8	IND	33	1.5	47.5	-108	-112

Rows 1–5 of the sample file, values verbatim. spread_line is the closing spread quoted for the home team: 8.5 means the home team was favored by 8.5, -3 means the road team was favored by 3. Moneylines are American odds, negative for the favorite.

What's in the pack

games.csv - 7,548 rows, one per game, 1999 through the 2026 schedule, 46 columns. Final scores, closing spread (spread_line), closing total (total_line), moneylines, spread and total odds, rest days, starting QBs, coaches, referee, stadium, roof, surface, temperature, and wind on every game where the value was tracked.
team-records-by-season.csv - 861 team-season rows. W/L/T, points for and against, ATS wins/losses/pushes, ATS win percentage, and over/under records, straight back to 1999.
season-summaries.csv - 27 rows, one per season from 1999 through 2025. League-level averages, home win percentage, favorite and underdog cover rates, and over/under splits.
data-dictionary.md - every column defined, including which years each field starts.

Want to check the file shape before buying? The free NFL betting data sample has 100 games with the same 46 columns, 15 of them shown on the page.

Three ways people use it

Hobby analysis

Whether dome teams score differently outdoors, how home-field advantage moved after 2020, how often favorites covered in a given era. Questions like these need scores, spreads, and stadium context in one place, and scraping them out of box scores is its own weekend project. Here it's one file and a pivot table.

Backtesting a rule you already have

If you keep a rule of thumb about road divisional dogs or prime-time unders, the honest test is replaying it against closing lines for every game it would have applied to. Twenty-seven seasons of games is enough to see whether a pattern survives contact with the data. Often it doesn't, and that's a useful answer too.

Fantasy and matchup research

QB names, coaches, rest days, weather, roof, and surface are columns on every game row, next to the betting numbers. When you're pricing a matchup or arguing about a scoring environment, the context is in the same file as the results.

This is clean data for your own analysis. It records what happened and where lines closed; it doesn't tell anyone what to bet, and nothing here should be read as betting advice.

Coverage, honestly

One line per game, not a movement log. The source records a single closing snapshot of each spread and total, taken when the dataset was built (2026-09-06). You get where the line settled, which is the number most analysis runs against. If your model needs the opening number or intraweek movement, you'll need a second source.
Which fields start when. Spreads and totals run 1999 onward and sit on 7,388 of 7,548 rows. Moneylines and the American odds fields start in 2006. Some 1990s rows are missing the field entirely rather than showing a zero.
The 2026 season is scheduled, not played. The 272 rows for this season have games and, where posted, lines; scores are empty until each game is played.
Franchise history stays put. Relocated teams keep their old codes (OAK, SD, STL), and Washington appears as WAS through 2021 and WSH from 2022. The dictionary spells all of this out.

License and attribution

Game data comes from the nflverse-data project under CC BY 4.0. If you republish or build on it, include the line “Data from nflverse, CC BY 4.0”. The derived team and season files carry the same license. Team logos and league marks are trademarks of their owners and are not part of the pack.

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