MissedTakes Passes Its 7,500th Take on the Record
AUSTIN, Texas, October 11, 2026, MissedTakes has passed its 7,500th take on the record, the site announced today. As of this writing the count stands at 7,609.
A take on the record, as MissedTakes defines it, is a published prediction by an approved pundit that the site has summarized, quoted and logged from a public article, podcast or broadcast, whether it has already been graded against what happened or is still waiting on a season to answer it.
The count is moving quickly. A day earlier, on October 10, it stood at 7,465 - 144 new takes logged in a single day, a pace driven by the heart of the NFL season, when pundits publish picks on nearly every team, every week.
That pace sits inside a larger body of work. MissedTakes has now graded 12,305 individual predictions, each one a single checkable call, so a pundit who names fourteen playoff teams contributes fourteen calls, not one, drawn from 1,178 approved pundits across 264 tracked outlets, shows and networks. Getting there has meant reading 9,306 articles, podcast episodes and broadcast segments in full, including transcribing 1,264 hours of audio so spoken predictions can be graded the same way written ones are. Across the two topics MissedTakes covers, graded accuracy currently averages 62.9% for NFL predictions and 69.3% for US Elections predictions.
The week behind this milestone offered a reminder of why the ledger matters. At the top of the current NFL leaderboard, Damonza Byrd holds the top spot with a 58% accuracy rate across 14 graded calls, a thin sample the site flags as limited, same as it does for every pundit near the top until the body of work grows. Lower down, pundits like Joe Marino (77.57% accuracy across 170 graded calls) and Tom Pelissero (82.36% across 34) show what a deeper record starts to look like. Among the week's graded calls, Jordan Foote, Tyler Brown and Joshua Brisco all backed the Chiefs over the Raiders and were right; Donnie Druin correctly flagged Jedrick Wills as locked onto Arizona's roster under the NFL's practice-squad poaching rule, a call most outlets didn't bother making.
"Every one of these 7,609 takes is a real person's prediction, attached to their name, checked against what actually happened," said Ben Garves, founder of The GoodApps Company. "That's the whole point of keeping the count, not to catch anyone out, but to give readers a running record they can actually check."
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 New York, New York, carries no advertising, and its scoring methodology is public.
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