Anyone can publish start/sit advice. Almost nobody goes back and checks it. This page keeps the receipts. Every week the sheet names 36 Must Starts — the 6 quarterbacks, 12 running backs, 12 receivers, 3 tight ends and 3 defenses expected to finish at the top of their position — plus a handful of Sits, and every one is scored against what actually happened in a standard 12-team full-PPR league. The consensus rankings are graded the same way, so you can see whether the calls beat them.
Season Record
How Calls Are Graded
The grading rule is deliberately boring and mechanical. Every call is scored as if it were made for a standard 12-team league with full PPR scoring, where each team starts 1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, 1 Flex and 1 D/ST.
- MUST START — each week the sheet names exactly . A Must Start is correct only if he finishes inside that same number at his position: . Getting a top-12 receiver right is hard, and the grade says exactly that.
- SIT — made by judgement, about ten a week, and only on a player you would plausibly start. A Sit is correct if he finishes outside the starter line: .
- Where the starter line comes from. Twelve teams with two running backs and two receivers each start 24 of each. The twelve flex spots almost always go to a running back or a receiver, so they are split evenly: six more at each, for 30 running backs and 30 receivers. A tight end rarely takes the flex, so the tight end line is the twelve starting spots, and the same goes for quarterbacks and defenses.
- MONITOR is never scored as a hit or a miss, and never counts toward the 36. It means the call genuinely depends on a practice report or an inactive list. Those calls are listed but excluded from the record.
- A player who does not play finishes outside every band: a Must Start on him is a miss and a Sit is a hit.
- No call is not a Sit. A receiver expected to finish around WR20 is a fine start in a 12-team league, but he is not one of the twelve Must Starts. Only called players are graded.
The benchmark. Its top 6/12/12/3/3 is graded exactly like the Must Starts. Even good rankings miss a lot of top-12 finishes in a given week, so the honest question is not whether the percentage looks high, but whether it beats the consensus.
Scoring.
Every miss is listed by name, with what the call got wrong. A page that only showed hits would tell you nothing, and you would be right not to believe it.
Sample size is always shown. One good week is noise; the multi-week record is the only number worth anything, and it will be reported as such even when a single week looks flattering.