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Leaderboard / Matt Bowen

Matt Bowen

Writes at Sports Illustrated

Every take from Matt Bowen, including the ones still waiting →

Is Matt Bowen accurate? Across 1 graded call in 1 article, Matt Bowen scores 0% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of -189, which means their calls were worse than a naive guess on the same claims. That is a provisional record, fewer than ten graded articles, so the numbers are not yet meaningful and they are not ranked on the leaderboard.

Accuracy

How often they were right.

-189

MissedTakes Score

Versus a naive guess. 0 means no better.

Graded calls

across 1 article. 14 more not yet settled.

Fewer than 10 graded articles. Treat this as provisional.

100% of their claims were specific enough to check. Most of what they said committed to something.

Every number here is computed from the published methodology, and every call below shows its own arithmetic.

Graded calls · 1

Picked the Seahawks to beat the Commanders in Week 3.Sep 25, 2026
- Seattle Seahawks to beat Commanders
  “ESPN Matt Bowen: Seahawks”
  Miss · 0Scored 0a naive guess scored 100-189 skill
  How this was scored
  won:
  WAS
  score:
  31-33
  skill:
  -189
  they picked:
  SEA
  season:
  2026
  accuracy:
  0
  baseline:
  100
  the naive pick:
  WAS
  difficulty:
  1.89
  weeks in the season:
  18
  weeks left when called:
  16

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