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The ledger · week 6, 2026

Week 6 graded: 6‑8, market 8‑6

The market beat us this week. Every pick was published before kickoff; here are the results, including the ones we got wrong.

20 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
6-8model, week 6

Every week we grade every pick we published, against the result and against the market. Week 6: the model went 6-8; the market favourite went 8-6. The market beat us this week.

6-8Model, week 643%
8-6Market, week 657%
0.256Brier scorelower is better; 0.25 is a coin flip
53-40Season recordmarket 61% of 93

Where we were wrong

IND at 72% (TEN 26 @ IND 20). LAR at 71% (ARI 18 @ LAR 16). BAL at 67% (BAL 10 @ CLE 13). The most confident misses are the ones worth learning from, so they go first.

Us vs the market

We were right where the market was wrong 0 times; the market was right where we were wrong 2 times (GB, PIT).

GamePickModel %ScoreModelMarket
LAC @ KCKC87%6-22RightRight
WAS @ SFSF84%17-23RightRight
NYJ @ NENE80%19-26RightRight
TEN @ INDIND72%26-20WrongWrong
ARI @ LARLAR71%18-16WrongWrong
BUF @ LVBUF70%33-30RightRight
BAL @ CLEBAL67%10-13WrongWrong
HOU @ JAXJAX63%34-31WrongWrong
CAR @ PHICAR60%25-14RightRight
NO @ NYGNYG60%34-27WrongWrong
DAL @ GBDAL54%13-23WrongRight
CHI @ ATLCHI54%31-23RightRight
SEA @ DENSEA53%14-17WrongWrong
PIT @ TBTB50%26-19WrongRight

Every week 6 pick, most confident first

Read this before you bet

Picking winners is not beating the price. Across 2025 our flat-bet ROI at posted odds was negative. Use the model as one view of the game, not as a tip.

Sources: results_dashboard.json (2026-10-20T09:00:48.112054Z). Every number here comes straight from our pipeline.