The head-to-head record
Model Zero vs the competition.
Model Zero finished 26–22 against the major fantasy basketball ranking sites in our archive—a small but real edge across 14 seasons.
This is the broad view: one opponent per ranking website in each season.
See every individual expert →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
| 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.