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Coach's Pen
In PBR Teams, every team is drawn a pen of five bulls before each game. Load a posted pen to see every matchup bull by bull, with the odds the bull wins each out, and share it. Then, if you like, make the call yourself.
Load a real pen
Step into a real coach's shoes: every complete pen from the last two PBR Teams seasons — the five bulls a team actually drew, with the coach's actual lineup loaded as your starting point. New games appear after the weekly data sync on Mondays.
Posted pens: upcoming games
PBR's posted pairings for upcoming Teams games, loaded exactly as drawn and ready to share.
- Nashville Stampede @ Florida Freedom Fri, Oct 23, 7:45 PM local Stampede penFreedom pen
- Oklahoma Wildcatters @ Texas Rattlers Fri, Oct 23, 8:30 PM local Wildcatters pen (4 of 5)Rattlers pen
- Carolina Cowboys @ Austin Gamblers Fri, Oct 23, 9:15 PM local Cowboys pen (3 of 4)Gamblers pen (4 of 5)
- Arizona Ridge Riders @ Missouri Thunder Fri, Oct 23, 10:00 PM local Ridge Riders penThunder pen (4 of 5)
- New York Mavericks @ Kansas City Outlaws Fri, Oct 23, 10:45 PM local Mavericks pen (3 of 5)Outlaws pen
The bulls 0/5
The riders 0/5
Rows pair up: the bull in row 1 faces the rider in row 1, and so on. Enter a posted matchup row by row to see it as drawn.
The matchups as drawn
Buckoff likelihood is the chance the bull wins the out. A covered ride's score goes on the team's total and a buckoff adds nothing, so each matchup's expected team points (its ride score times the chance it's covered) add up to the expected team score. How it's figured
What actually happened
Projections use each bull's and rider's full record as it stands today — including this game and everything since — so read them as hindsight, not a pre-game forecast.
Share the matchups as drawn
This card always shows the pairings as drawn; changes under You make the call don't affect it. Replying to a team's matchup post: on Facebook or X, add the image and paste the caption. Instagram comments take text only, so paste just the caption there.
You make the call
Re-pair this pen yourself: pick a bull for each rider (picking a bull another rider has swaps the two) and see how your lineup projects.
Every bull vs. every rider
Buckoff likelihood for each possible pairing in this pen. Darker red means the bull is likelier to win the out; outlined cells are the pairings as drawn.
How it's figured: each pairing uses the Matchup Projector's disclosed math — the bull's career ride-allowed rate, adjusted by the rider's ride rate against the tour average and by chute side (riders cover more often when a bull's delivery side matches their riding hand, both as PBR lists them — the numbers); projected bull score is 70% recent form plus 30% career average; ride score adds the rider's average judged half. The bull is marked either way, but a buckoff puts nothing on the team's total, so a pairing's expected team points are the chance the rider covers (100% minus the buckoff likelihood) times his ride score, and a lineup's expected team score is the sum of its pairings. PBR Teams games go to the higher five-rider total.
The limits, honestly: the numbers know which side a bull is delivered from and which hand a rider rides with, but not which way he turns back, how he leaves the chute, or who's riding well that week — the pen a real coach reads first. Riders shown have at least 10 recorded outs. A reference for fans, not odds and not betting advice. See which teams actually drew the rankest pens in the Draw Report.