# Derek Brown Sweeps Pundit of the Week on Two Perfect Calls | MissedTakes Weekly

*Published 2026-10-19 — MissedTakes*

*Drafted by a language model from MissedTakes' graded data, then reviewed and approved by Ben Garves before publishing.*

## Who won Pundit of the Week for 2026-W42?

[Derek Brown](/pundits/derek-brown) took both Pundit of the Week awards for the week of October 13-19, 2026, posting a MissedTakes Score of 136.26 and 100 accuracy. Both marks came from just two graded calls, so the week says more about two sharp predictions landing in the same seven days than about a sudden hot streak. Brown sits 10th on the [overall leaderboard](/nfl/leaderboard) with 110 graded calls on the season, so this was a short, loud week inside a much longer record.

## What did Brown get right this week?

Brown nailed a Bears outcome call and a Bills score call, and both graded as hits. On October 17 he wrote that he'd "lean slightly in the direction of the bears, but this game is a fricking toss up for me" for Chicago-Atlanta. The Bears won 31-23, and because the model's naive pick in that game was Atlanta, the call carried extra weight: a skill score of 172.

The second call ran back to October 9, when Brown forecast a 31-28 Bills win over the Rams on Monday night. Buffalo won 37-34, a 3-point margin that matched Brown's predicted margin almost exactly, grading out at 100 accuracy and a skill score of 100.53. Average those two skill scores and you get the 136.26 that won him the week.

## How does the week compare to Brown's season record?

Brown's season numbers are far more mixed than his award week suggests. His 110 graded calls break down across nine different prediction types, and the spread is wide: fantasy bust calls are his best category (81.25 accuracy, 12 graded), while his calls on player positional finishes have been rough (12.85 accuracy across 19 graded). His game-outcome category, the type that produced his Bears call, sits at 50 accuracy across four graded calls on the season; his score-prediction category, source of the Bills call, is at 78.57 across three. Both categories got a boost from this week's hits.

## Has the weekly award gone to the same pundit twice this season?

No pundit has repeated as a weekly winner in the last month we've tracked. Brown's 136.26 is the fourth different score-based winner in four weeks, following [Jeff Kerr](/pundits/jeff-kerr) (133.33 on three graded calls in W41), [Joe Marino](/pundits/joe-marino) (142.07 on 11 graded calls in W40) and [Lance Zierlein](/pundits/lance-zierlein) (123.5 on five graded calls in W39). The accuracy award split from the score award just once in that stretch: in W39, [Mike Moraitis](/pundits/mike-moraitis) took accuracy honors with a perfect 100 across 27 graded calls while Zierlein won on score. Every one of these weeks ran on single-digit or low-double-digit sample sizes, which is the normal state of a weekly award built on however many calls happened to get graded that week.

![Four different pundits, four different weekly winners](/posts/visuals/cc5adc25-7f70-4467-95c9-5c7524e7a964.png)

## What did the week's graded calls look like across the board?

The last seven days produced 605 graded calls, with game outcome picks (353) and score predictions (208) making up nearly all of the volume. Roster spot calls (28), trade and signing calls (10), depth chart calls (3), mock draft picks (2) and a single fantasy defense ranking rounded out the week. Another 465 new calls were logged in the same stretch, feeding next week's grading.

![Game outcome and score calls made up 93% of the week's grading](/posts/visuals/4c643539-e9df-492d-8b12-eb4ca9eba32a.png)

## Which calls stood furthest from the result?

Five calls this week scored a perfect 100 with a skill score of 200, and five scored zero with a skill score of -200, and the misses cluster around one team. [Michael Irvin](/pundits/michael-irvin) had two separate Cowboys season predictions score zero, both pegging Dallas for a 13-4 finish; [Jeff Cavanaugh](/pundits/jeff-cavanaugh) and [Clarence Hill](/pundits/clarence-hill) also missed on full-season, game-by-game Cowboys predictions. On the other side, [Kevin Wildes](/pundits/kevin-wildes) and [Rich Eisen](/pundits/rich-eisen), who had two calls graded a perfect 100 this week, were credited for full-season game-by-game predictions that lined up with what actually happened. [Adam Chudwin](/pundits/adam-chudwin) and [Leonard Fournette](/pundits/leonard-fournette) rounded out the top scores, both also graded on season-long, game-by-game predictions.