Simon Hunter

Simon Hunter is a regular voice on "Sharp or Square," the betting-focused segment of The Herd with Colin Cowherd. His predictions span divisional previews, win totals, playoff picks, and fantasy sleepers across both conferences, with a particular eye on quarterback play and draft markets.

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Not ranked yetBuilding a record: 4 graded articles

66.73MissedTakes Scorevs a naive guess · 0 = no better

61.63%Accuracyhow often the calls landed

23Graded callsacross 4 articles

94Waitingnot graded yet

Is Simon Hunter accurate?

Across 23 graded calls in 4 articles, Simon Hunter scores 61.63% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of 66.73, which means their calls were better than a naive guess on the same claims.

That is a provisional record, fewer than ten graded articles, so the numbers are not yet meaningful and they are not ranked on the leaderboard.

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Every number here is computed from the published methodology, and every call below opens to its own arithmetic.

All 117 calls · one square per call

11hits48% of graded

1Close4%

11misses48%

Where Simon Hunter stands

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MissedTakes Score

How much better than a naive guess on the same claims. This is the ranking.

By kind

accuracy · graded calls

Playoff Picks57.14%

14 graded

Also called, too few graded to rateDivision Winners (4) · Fantasy Bust Calls (1) · Top Player Lists (1) · Mock Draft Picks (1) · Sleeper Calls (1) · Super Bowl Picks (1)

A kind is rated once it has five graded calls.

How the calls are made

91.35%specific enough to check

30.23%hedged: a “probably”, a “could”

Hedged vs plain callsOnly 2 hedged calls are graded so far, too few to compare. The comparison appears once there are enough. Compare →

Against the grain

Computed, never chosen

Teams and players where Simon Hunter keeps landing outside the room: at least twice, their call sat beyond every other pundit who made a comparable one — higher or lower than all of them, in a room of at least five voices. The bar is their standing lean (+100 would be the most bullish voice in every room), and the accuracy covers just those out-on-a-limb calls, once they settle.

Jalen Hurts+56
Outside the room in 2 of 3 articles — always higher · when they strayed: 55.0 accuracy (1 settled)

About Simon Hunter

Where we read them: The Herd with Colin Cowherd (podcast)
Graded calls made: Feb 25, 2025 to Jul 23, 2025
Graded articles: 4 · building a record

A longer profile is written once a record reaches 30 graded articles, and published only after a person reviews it.

Every graded call, article by article

HitCloseMissWaiting

23 graded calls in 4 articles, newest first — page 1 of 2. Every take from Simon Hunter, including the ones still waiting →

Jul 23, 2025
Simon is drafting Ashton Jeanty in the late first/early second and is comfortable taking them in the first round, is all-in on DeVonta Adams with the Rams, and calls Puka Nacua one of the most overdrafted players who should not be taken in the first round.Sleeper Calls, Fantasy Bust Calls · 2 calls
2 hits · 2 of 2 graded calls landed
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- Ashton Jeanty to outplay his draft cost (late first, early second, and most drafts right now)