MissedTakes Passes Its 7,500th Article or Episode Read
AUSTIN, Texas — October 5, 2026 — MissedTakes has passed its 7,500th article or episode read, the raw material it works through to find predictions worth grading against what actually happened.
The exact count stands at 7,682 as of today. That figure covers published articles, podcast episodes and broadcast segments MissedTakes has read in full and mined for checkable predictions — not every mention of a team or player, but the complete pieces the site works through, one at a time, to find the calls worth putting on the record.
The count is moving fast: as of yesterday it stood at 7,463, meaning MissedTakes read and mined 219 more sources in the span of a single day. That pace reflects a football calendar running at full tilt — Week 5 picks, roster cuts, trade rumors and mock drafts all generating fresh material to work through — alongside the site's ongoing coverage of US elections.
Those sources feed everything else MissedTakes does. From them, the site has put 6,845 takes on the record from approved pundits, and graded 11,354 individual checkable calls — a single pundit naming fourteen playoff teams counts as fourteen calls, not one. The pundits behind those calls number 1,065, writing or speaking for 260 outlets the site tracks. Some of that record is spoken rather than written: MissedTakes has transcribed 974 hours of podcast and broadcast audio so that on-air predictions get graded the same way as printed ones.
Across the two subjects MissedTakes covers, accuracy looks different by topic: NFL predictions have graded out at 62% mean accuracy, while US elections calls have run hotter, at 77.5%. The gap is a reminder that not all prediction is created equal — a sport with 18 weeks of variance plays differently than a vote count.
The reading pays off in individual calls worth keeping. Among the recent hits on the board: Kirk Herbstreit picked the Ravens to beat the Colts in Week 1 this season, against a crowd favoring the home team — Baltimore won 41-23, and the call graded out at 100% accuracy. On the leaderboard built from this season's and past seasons' graded calls, Bryan DeArdo currently sits atop the overall NFL leaderboard with a 71.67% accuracy rate, albeit on a limited sample of 16 graded calls so far.
"Every number we publish starts with somebody actually reading or listening to the thing a pundit said," said Ben Garves, founder of The GoodApps Company. "Passing 7,500 sources read is really a note about how much raw material it takes to get a few thousand checkable calls on the record. The grading only means something because the reading behind it is thorough."
About MissedTakes
MissedTakes (missedtakes.co) grades 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 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.
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Ben Garves, The GoodApps Company — missedtakes.co/contact