Week 5 Scorecard: How Our Boldest Calls Did

Each Week 5 call was a claim that our positional rank was closer to the truth than the experts'. So each one is graded by which rank the player's actual finish landed nearer to: ours or consensus. Nearer only counts if it was close, though: when the nearer rank still missed by more than 18 spots at RB or WR, or 9 at QB or TE, neither side was right and the call is graded "neither" rather than handed to whoever was less wrong. 25 of them could be graded. Across the 25 where the player finished with a rank, our ranks missed the actual finish by 15.1 spots on average; consensus missed by 14.6.

Our best call was Josh Downs: we had him WR36, consensus had WR20, and he finished WR43. Our worst was Makai Lemon, WR76 to us and WR41 by consensus, who finished WR39.

The calls were locked on Oct 7, 2026, 1:03 PM ET. Finishes are Sleeper's PPR positional ranks for the week. Nobody on bye is ever called, so a player marked inactive missed a game his team played: he has no line for the week, and is shown but not graded. Sleeper ranks only the players who scored, so one who took the field and finished below all of them shows as unranked: the call still goes to whichever side had him lower, but it carries no distance and is left out of the averages above.