# MissedTakes Passes Its 750th Hour of Transcribed Sports Audio

*Published 2026-10-02 — MissedTakes*

AUSTIN, Texas — October 2, 2026 — MissedTakes has passed its 750th hour of sports audio transcribed, part of the work behind grading pundits' predictions against what actually happened. As of today the site has transcribed 928 hours of podcast and broadcast audio.

That count is hours of podcast and broadcast audio MissedTakes has transcribed so that spoken predictions can be put on the record and graded the same way as a written column — counted in whole hours, rounded down. A prediction made on air carries the same weight as one printed in an article, but only if someone writes down exactly what was said and when. That's what the transcribing is for.

The total has been moving fast. Two days ago, on September 30, the running count stood at 725 hours; it has added 203 hours since — more than a quarter of the current total in under 72 hours, as NFL coverage ramps up around the season.

Audio is where some of MissedTakes' sharpest graded calls have come from. Tom Pelissero, guest-hosting a radio segment in May 2025, said of Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers: "So this is either assuming that Aaron Rodgers comes, which we can feel very strongly about it." Rodgers signed with Pittsburgh, and the call graded as a hit. It's one of 33 graded calls on Pelissero's record (81.43% accuracy), drawn from 18 pieces of coverage that include exactly this kind of on-air remark — the sort of prediction that, without a transcript, never makes it onto any record at all.

Transcribing audio sits alongside the rest of what MissedTakes tracks: 10,697 predictions graded against results, 6,525 takes on the record from 1,016 approved pundits, pulled from 7,044 articles, podcasts and broadcast segments across 260 outlets the site follows. None of that counts all of sports media — just the outlets and pundits MissedTakes tracks — but it's enough, across 13 completed seasons, to put a number on how often punditry gets it right: 62% average accuracy.

![Audio transcribed, by the numbers](/posts/visuals/cab519fa-dcd4-4725-a846-80321ee6b021.png)

"A take someone said out loud shouldn't get a pass just because nobody wrote it down," said **Ben Garves**, founder of The GoodApps Company. "Transcribing the audio is slow, unglamorous work, but it's the only way a prediction made on a podcast gets held to the same standard as one in print."

## About MissedTakes

MissedTakes grades sports pundits' predictions against what actually happened. It tracks published takes from articles, podcasts and broadcasts, turns each into checkable calls, scores them under a published methodology once the results are in, and ranks pundits and outlets by accuracy with the sample size always shown beside the score. It is built and paid for by The GoodApps Company in Austin, Texas, carries no advertising, and its scoring methodology is public.

## Media contact

Ben Garves, The GoodApps Company — missedtakes.co/contact