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NFL Shares: Pending Picks — Locks, Cancellations & Timers

How to read the Pending tab, what the lock countdown means, and how to cancel a pick before it locks.

The Pending tab shows every pick you've placed that hasn't locked or settled yet. This is the most reliable place to check on a pick right after you place it — more so than the Home dashboard, which can take a moment to reflect a brand-new pick.

Each pending pick shows:

  • The game and matchup (e.g., "Raiders at Texans")

  • The specific pick and odds (e.g., "Raiders -1.5 -110" or "Over 37.5 -110")

  • Units risked on that pick

  • "Locks in [countdown]" — a live countdown to kickoff/first pitch, after which the pick can no longer be changed or cancelled

  • "Cancel this pick [countdown]" — a separate, shorter countdown showing the window in which you can still cancel that specific pick

💡 Good to know: the cancel window is much shorter than the lock countdown.

In this example, the game locks in about 26 hours, but the option to cancel that particular pick disappears in under 2 minutes. Once that shorter window closes, the pick stands until the game locks — it can't be cancelled from the member side, even though there's still plenty of time left before kickoff.

Commissioner view

When a commissioner opens their own Pending tab, a teal banner reads "COMMISSIONER VIEW — YOU SEE MORE THAN MEMBERS DO," flagging that commissioners see additional pending activity across the pool that individual members don't.

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