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Week 8 Scorecard: How Our Boldest Calls Did

Every Week 8 start and sit call graded against what actually happened: who we got right, where the experts had it, and by how much.

← The Week 8 calls as they were locked

Record
9-13-1
28 calls graded, 5 neither side got right, 2 did not play
Starts
3-8-1
where we were higher than consensus, 2 neither
Sits
6-5
where we were lower than consensus, 3 neither

Each Week 8 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. 28 of them could be graded. Across the 26 where the player finished with a rank, our ranks missed the actual finish by 14.1 spots on average; consensus missed by 13.7.

Our best call was KC Concepcion Jr.: we had him WR47, consensus had WR25, and he finished WR52. Our worst was Makai Lemon, WR56 to us and WR38 by consensus, who finished WR31.

The calls were locked on Oct 28, 2026, 12:18 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.

Season to date

Every call from Weeks 1-8, graded the same way. The season numbers stop at this week, so this page keeps saying what the record was after Week 8 rather than what it is now.

Season record
80-72-5
220 calls graded over 8 weeks, 63 neither side got right, 14 did not play, 8 ahead
Our avg miss
19.3
spots off across 214 measured calls
Consensus avg miss
18.8
spots off across the same calls
WeekRecordOur avg missConsensus
Week 17-1419.418.3
Week 211-921.721.5
Week 310-922.723.3
Week 411-6-121.319.9
Week 512-9-115.114.6
Week 65-6-122.219.7
Week 715-6-117.518.4
Week 89-13-114.113.7
Season80-72-519.318.8

Starts: where we were higher than consensus

A start was right if the finish landed closer to our rank than to the experts’, and close to it.

PlayerOur rankConsensusFinishCall
TEJake FergusonDALTE7TE25Unranked0.0 ptsConsensus
WRChris Godwin Jr.TBWR28WR44Unranked0.0 ptsConsensus
WRJakobi MeyersJAXWR26WR41WR594.4 ptsConsensus
WRKhalil ShakirBUFWR33WR47WR3411.4 ptsClutch
RBMarShawn LloydGBRB39RB49RB532.6 ptsConsensus
RBChase BrownCINRB5RB13RB1416.1 ptsConsensus
TEBrenton StrangeJAXTE6TE13TE207.5 ptsConsensus
QBSam DarnoldSEAQB11QB17QB1418.5 ptsPush
RBOmarion HamptonLACRB26RB32RB454.7 ptsConsensus
WRTee HigginsCINWR6WR12WR137.5 ptsClutch
TEMark AndrewsBALTE11TE17TE314.4 ptsNeither
WRGarrett WilsonNYJWR11WR16WR1814.3 ptsConsensus
RBBucky IrvingTBRB10RB15RB1121.0 ptsClutch
WRWan'Dale RobinsonTENWR37WR42WR1515.7 ptsNeither
WRA.J. BrownNEWR12WR17InactiveDNP

Sits: where we were lower than consensus

A sit was right if the finish landed closer to our rank than to the experts’, and close to it.

PlayerOur rankConsensusFinishCall
WRKC Concepcion Jr.CLEWR47WR25WR526.7 ptsClutch
WRMakai LemonPHIWR56WR38WR3111.7 ptsConsensus
TEKyle Pitts Sr.ATLTE26TE10TE412.6 ptsNeither
TEDallas GoedertPHITE20TE4TE217.2 ptsClutch
WRLadd McConkeyQLACWR45WR30WR2812.6 ptsConsensus
RBJ.K. DobbinsDENRB51RB36RB601.3 ptsClutch
WRJordan AddisonMINWR48WR34WR3211.6 ptsConsensus
RBRJ HarveyDENRB41RB27InactiveDNP
WRDenzel BostonCLEWR40WR26WR389.7 ptsClutch
QBCaleb WilliamsCHIQB22QB10QB1714.0 ptsClutch
WRBrian Thomas Jr.JAXWR84WR73WR438.2 ptsNeither
WRMatthew GoldenQGBWR22WR11WR720.9 ptsConsensus
RBBlake CorumLARRB36RB25RB1813.3 ptsConsensus
RBQuinshon JudkinsCLERB32RB22RB336.9 ptsClutch
WRDK MetcalfPITWR31WR21WR801.4 ptsNeither
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The calls are read back from the capture taken before kickoff, on October 28, 2026 at 12:18 PM EDT, and graded against Sleeper's final PPR positional ranks for the week. Both sides of every row are fixed records, so nothing on this page moves as consensus does.