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Week 5 · 2026 season · as of Sat Oct 10 · 5:31 PM ET

We say who plays, days before the team does.

Every player on the injury report gets a PLAY or SIT call from us, written down and timestamped before his club announces anything. Nothing here can be edited afterwards — and every call is scored in public. Our own calls publish here when each game kicks off; clients see them as soon as we make them.

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Earliness is the product

  1. Our calls are writtena day or more before kickoff — timestamped, append-onlya day or more out
  2. Clients read themthe client page, CSV, the API and widgetsright away
  3. Clubs publish their designationsand we record how far ahead of them we werelater
  4. Our calls publish herewhen each game kicks offkickoff

What clients see — example data

The week's board as a client reads it mid-week: every player on the injury report, his practice days, his club's word, and our call — which the public sees only once his game kicks off.

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Example: our calls for this game are written — and withheld from the public until kickoff

The injury report is public, so anyone can see who is on it. Our call is not: withheld is different from no call. Clients have each call from the moment we make it.

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Example board — DAL vs TB

PlayerInjuryPractice W · T · FClub designationOur call
Antoine Winfield Jr. · S · TBRibsDNP · — · —not yet🔒 Withheld until kickoff
CeeDee Lamb · WR · DALAnkleLP · — · —not yet🔒 Withheld until kickoff
Baker Mayfield · QB · TBThumbDNP · — · —not yet🔒 Withheld until kickoff
Mike Evans · WR · TBHamstringLP · — · —not yet🔒 Withheld until kickoff
Jake Ferguson · TE · DALConcussionDNP · — · —not yet🔒 Withheld until kickoff
Trevon Diggs · CB · DALKneeDNP · — · —OutSIT

Example data — illustrative, not this week's calls. Withheld = we have a call, and it goes public when the game kicks off · Club designation = the team's own word, shown as it is announced · Not on the report = no call.

The client page — example

Your week in one place: the board for every game, who got hurt in practice, how each injured player is progressing, new injury alerts, and every call the moment we make it.

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Widgets — example

A player's call, band and practice week in a 320 × 180 card you embed on your own site, kept current as we update it.

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CSV and the API

The same calls, with their timestamps and lead times, for your own models.

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Week 4, settled

Our model (champion/sides v1) only, the latest call per player, scored against what happened.

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314calls graded
83.8%accuracy
0.1229Brier score
71excluded71 restated + 0 retired

01 · Written

A call for every player on the report — PLAY or SIT, with its band.

02 · Timestamped

Append-only, with its lead time. A changed mind is a new row, never an edit.

03 · Settled

Scored against what happened — one population, one rule, every week, including the weeks that do not flatter us.