Posts — page 8
What we're seeing in the data: daily summaries of graded predictions, essays on the punditry industry, and deep dives into what the numbers say.
- Daily summaryAugust 29, 2026
Trade Calls Grade Out Below Baseline, Five Categories Clear at Once, and Nobody Saw 14 Wins in New England | MissedTakes Daily
1,030 takes graded in seven days. Trade and signing calls finished below the naive baseline, and the win-total field missed all three 14-win teams.
- Daily summaryAugust 29, 2026
Rich Eisen's Chiefs Arc and More | MissedTakes Daily
A 2,123-take grading week hit the season-forecast categories hardest: division winners at 27.4 accuracy, and the field's Chiefs win total off by 6.3.
- Blog postAugust 26, 2026
New Orleans Saints Fantasy Preview 2026: 21 Sleeper Calls on Tyler Shough, and Almost Nothing Graded to Back Them
Every 2026 fantasy take on the Saints, graded: Shough's 21 sleeper calls, the Etienne fade, Olave splits — and how thin the track record behind them is.
- Blog postAugust 25, 2026
Indianapolis Colts Fantasy Preview 2026: 14 pundits are on Josh Downs, and the last graded Downs sleeper call scored a zero
Colts 2026 fantasy punditry graded: Josh Downs mania, the Pierce split, Tyler Warren's clean record, and only seven graded Colts fantasy calls to judge it by.
- Weekly reviewAugust 17, 2026
David Harrison's 52.02 Week, Built Almost Entirely on the 2026 Draft | MissedTakes Weekly
Pundit of the Week for 2026-W33: David Harrison at 52.02 MissedTakes Score, Gregg Rosenthal at 93.1 accuracy on eight calls. Plus 4,044 graded takes.
- Daily summaryAugust 15, 2026
Mock Drafts Eat the Week, Chris Brockman Lands at Both Ends, and the Chiefs Consensus Misses by Six | MissedTakes Daily
2,574 takes graded in seven days, 1,610 of them mock-draft picks. Plus, the Chiefs win-total wipeout and a take that managed to score 100 aaaand 0.
- Blog postAugust 14, 2026
The 2026 Mock Draft Cycle, Graded: The Field Nailed the Top, Missed the Fallers, and Never Got Sharper
We graded 1,413 mock-draft calls on the 2026 NFL draft: who was accurate, who wasn't, and why publishing later barely helped.
- Blog postAugust 14, 2026
Four Players the Talk Shows Over-Covered, and What It Cost Them
Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts, Baker Mayfield and Jonathan Taylor drew 46 graded calls last season and returned 25.4 accuracy. Who paid for it, and how much.
- Daily summaryAugust 14, 2026
MVP Consensus *Was* Stafford and a Jets Take Graded Both Ways | MissedTakes Daily
2,386 takes graded in seven days: the MVP consensus hit on Matthew Stafford, and win-total misses run deep.