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The ledger · week 7, 2026

Week 7 graded: 8‑6, market 10‑4

The market beat us this week. Every pick was published before kickoff; here are the results, including the ones we got wrong.

28 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
8-6model, week 7

Every week we grade every pick we published, against the result and against the market. Week 7: the model went 8-6; the market favourite went 10-4. The market beat us this week.

8-6Model, week 757%
10-4Market, week 771%
0.267Brier scorelower is better; 0.25 is a coin flip
61-46Season recordmarket 63% of 107

Where we were wrong

CAR at 73% (TB 43 @ CAR 13). SF at 72% (SF 20 @ ATL 29). HOU at 71% (NYG 27 @ HOU 21). The most confident misses are the ones worth learning from, so they go first.

Us vs the market

We were right where the market was wrong 0 times; the market was right where we were wrong 2 times (SEA, CHI).

GamePickModel %ScoreModelMarket
TB @ CARCAR73%43-13WrongWrong
SF @ ATLSF72%20-29WrongWrong
LAR @ LVLAR72%35-21RightRight
NYG @ HOUHOU71%27-21WrongWrong
IND @ MINMIN67%10-16RightRight
GB @ DETDET64%17-20RightRight
DEN @ ARIDEN63%30-16RightRight
PIT @ NOPIT63%16-10RightRight
KC @ SEAKC60%3-20WrongRight
DAL @ PHIDAL59%38-21RightRight
CIN @ BALCIN58%35-13RightRight
NE @ CHINE57%24-30WrongRight
MIA @ NYJNYJ57%28-25WrongWrong
CLE @ TENCLE51%27-24RightRight

Every week 7 pick, most confident first

Read this before you bet

Picking winners is not beating the price. Across 2025 our flat-bet ROI at posted odds was negative. Use the model as one view of the game, not as a tip.

Sources: results_dashboard.json (2026-10-27T09:00:50.201668Z). Every number here comes straight from our pipeline.