Ranking benchmark
Model One vs the fantasy football competition
Model One finished 36–26 against 62 organization and draft-market boards across thirteen NFL seasons, comparing players within their positions. Explore each matchup and its sources.
This is the broad view: one opponent per source in each season. Individual panelists get their own page.
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Within-position rank error (%). Lower wins.
Each bar is Model One'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, line by line
| Organization | Players | Model One | Their score | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
CBS Sports CBS Sports | 166 | 24.426% | 25.665% | Won by 1.24 |
ESPN ESPN | 255 | 22.832% | 24.412% | Won by 1.58 |
FantasyPros consensus FantasyPros | 289 | 19.294% | 19.297% | Won by 0.00 |
Real-draft ADP FantasyFootballCalculator | 193 | 25.185% | 26.541% | Won by 1.36 |
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.
Each position’s weighted rank error is divided by its matched rank range, then positions are averaged equally. The model uses all displayed matchup pools; each opponent uses its own pools. 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: the FantasyPros rankings feed for the consensus and WalterFootball boards, FantasyFootballCalculator's public archive for real-draft ADP, and pre-kickoff Wayback captures for ESPN, CBS Sports, Yahoo, and NFL.com. Sites whose historical boards we have not yet recovered in a verifiably pre-kickoff form are absent, not exempt — the archive grows.