Ranking benchmark
Model Zero vs the fantasy basketball field
Model Zero won more matchups than it lost against verified preseason boards from ESPN, Yahoo analysts, FantasyPros, Hashtag Basketball, RotoBaller, and SportsEthos. Every result is published.
This page covers every verified site and analyst board in the archive.
See the Yahoo analyst record →The comparison
Pick a year.
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
| Source / analyst | Players | Model Zero | Their score | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
SportsEthos | 207 | 32.687 | 33.377 | Won by 0.69 |
RotoBaller | 178 | 26.596 | 25.931 | Lost by 0.67 |
Yahoo | 177 | 28.631 | 27.459 | Lost by 1.17 |
ESPN ESPN | 131 | 20.079 | 24.107 | Won by 4.03 |
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 to the preseason board that was scored. Each board and Model Zero are graded against completed-season per-game results, and the record includes every qualifying matchup—not only Model Zero wins.
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2024-25
2023-24
2022-23
2021-22
2020-21
2019-20
2018-19
2017-18
* First-year players are excluded from both sides of every matchup.