Inside the expert panel
Model Zero vs 62 FantasyPros experts.
Every qualified preseason panelist board we could verify, plus the FantasyPros consensus. Pick a season and see who was closer.
FantasyPros consensus is assembled from participating panelist boards, whose experts represent many different publishers.
See the website-level 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dennis ClausenX RotoBaller | 220 | 31.299 | 40.323 | Won by 9.02 |
Ethan MaselX The Fantasy Bulletin | 291 | 42.395 | 45.567 | Won by 3.17 |
Jacob PiccoloX TrueRGM | 307 | 46.178 | 46.471 | Won by 0.29 |
Jason Longfellow Razzball | 223 | 35.016 | 32.970 | Lost by 2.05 |
Kelly KirbyX FantasyPros | 216 | 33.458 | 35.397 | Won by 1.94 |
Leszek Bialecki FB-Ninja | 223 | 35.016 | 34.088 | Lost by 0.93 |
Mark Strausberg SoCalledFanEx | 219 | 34.251 | 34.238 | Lost by 0.01 |
Nick Rodriguez Fantasy Guru | 222 | 34.944 | 37.201 | Won by 2.26 |
Seth FisherX Total Sports Live | 232 | 34.081 | 40.092 | Won by 6.01 |
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.
Each individual link opens the exact raw FantasyPros JSON used here. Consensus links open the archived preseason captures. Generic staff boards, clearly in-season revisions, boards under 75 players, and duplicate analyst-season revisions already represented in the main benchmark are excluded.
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2024-25
2023-24
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2020-21
2019-20
2018-19
2017-18
2016-17
2015-16
* Rookies are removed. Only players who appeared in at least 20 games that season are included. The API labels these as season-long roto draft boards but does not explicitly identify per-game versus total intent.
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