Ranking benchmark
Model Zero vs the competition
Across 48 season-by-season matchups with major fantasy basketball ranking sites, Model Zero finished with a 26–22 edge.
This is the broad view: one opponent per ranking website in each season.
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Lower miss score wins.
Each bar is Model Zero's percentage edge inside that source's own matched-player pool. Use it to compare direction and relative edge—not raw miss scores across differently sized boards.
The table
2025-26, line by line
| Organization | Players | Model Zero | Their score | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ESPN ESPN | 131 | 20.079 | 24.107 | Won by 4.03 |
RotoBaller RotoBaller | 178 | 26.596 | 25.931 | Lost by 0.67 |
SportsEthos SportsEthos | 207 | 32.687 | 33.377 | Won by 0.69 |
Yahoo Experts Yahoo Experts | 177 | 28.631 | 27.459 | Lost by 1.17 |
Across every season
Best win, toughest loss, closest call.
Sleeper receipts
One for us. One for them.
Experimental all-time leaderboard
Everybody, stacked up.
Lower is better. Board size is normalized, multiple boards are averaged within a season, and every season counts equally. No small-sample adjustment is applied.
Normalized miss is each board's weighted average rank error as a percentage of that board's full matched-player rank range. Only sources with at least two scored seasons appear; two-season entries are labeled as small samples.
Sources
Check every board.
Every matchup links back to its source. When a site did not publish one staff board, we combined its available individual boards for that season and label the result clearly.
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2023-24
2022-23
- Yahoo ExpertsThis Ball Ranks-created season board combines Dalton Del Don, Dan Titus.
2021-22
- RotoBaller consensus · RotoBallerThis published ranking combines Dan Palyo, Adam Koffler, Alex Burns, Kev Mahserejian.
- Yahoo ExpertsThis Ball Ranks-created season board combines Dalton Del Don, Dan Titus.
2020-21
- RotoBaller consensus · RotoBallerThis published ranking combines Justin Carter, Dicky Fung, Kev Mahserejian.
- Yahoo ExpertsThis Ball Ranks-created season board combines Andy Behrens, Dalton Del Don, Dan Titus.
2019-20
- Yahoo ExpertsThis published ranking combines Andy Behrens, Dalton Del Don, Alex Barutha.
2018-19
- Yahoo ExpertsThis published ranking combines Dalton Del Don, Alex Barutha.
2017-18
- Yahoo ExpertsThis published ranking combines Andy Behrens, Dalton Del Don, Alex Barutha.