MissedTakes Passes Its 10,000th Graded Prediction

AUSTIN, Texas — September 24, 2026 — MissedTakes has passed its 10,000th graded prediction, putting its running total at 10,001 checkable calls scored against what actually happened.

A "graded take," in MissedTakes' accounting, is one checkable call taken from a published take by an approved pundit and scored under the site's published methodology — a pundit who names fourteen playoff teams has made fourteen calls, not one. The count only grows once a result is in to grade against; it doesn't include predictions still waiting on a season to answer them.

The total moved fast to get here: as recently as September 23, MissedTakes had graded 9,996 takes. Five more calls were graded in the day since, carrying the count past 10,000. Those takes sit on top of 5,994 takes MissedTakes has put on the record overall, drawn from 6,144 articles, podcasts and broadcasts it has read or transcribed in full — including 684 hours of audio — from 892 approved pundits writing or speaking across 167 outlets it tracks. Across everything graded so far, the field's average accuracy sits at 60.7 percent, spanning 13 completed seasons of coverage.

The leaderboard behind that average has real separation. Among pundits with a graded record, Lance Zierlein currently tops it at 64.77 percent accuracy on 43 graded calls, with Pat Fitzmaurice close behind at 61.43 percent across a deeper sample of 159. The 10,000-take pool is also full of calls that look obvious only in hindsight: Chris Welsh called Travis Hunter a "smash draft" as a fantasy sleeper going outside the top 30 picks last August, and Hunter finished the season as the top-ranked player in the secondary. Derek Brown flagged Tetairoa McMillan as a locked-in WR2 as a round-six pick; McMillan finished WR13. Calls like those, and the ones that miss, are why the site tracks sample size next to every score rather than the score alone.

"Ten thousand graded calls means we've got enough of a record now to actually tell you who's worth listening to and who isn't, position by position and outlet by outlet," said Ben Garves, founder of The GoodApps Company. "The point was never to catch anyone in a bad take. It's to show the pattern once there's enough of a record to see one."

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 public 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.thegoodapps.co/contact