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MLB projections vs. the market

Week of Aug 3–9, 2026 (2026-W32) · model clean_v2 · generated Aug 10, 2026

A report, not advice. Every projection below was logged before first pitch in our immutable record and graded after the game — nothing is added or removed later. We publish no pick, lean or edge; this page reports how our numbers did, including the misses. The market's line is shown for context only.

How we did

Graded MLB games, Aug 3–9, 2026 · reports, not picks
Games graded
83
2026-W32
Moneyline record
49-34
59.0% higher-prob side
our >50% side won
Moneyline Brier
0.243
better than 0.250 coin flip
lower is better
Totals avg miss
3.46
runs |proj − actual|
83 games
Totals vs market
+0.16
trails market (3.46 vs 3.30)
83 lined games

The biggest misses

We show them on purpose · totals, Aug 3–9, 2026

The point of a public track record is that the misses stay in. Our three largest totals misses this week:

GameProjectedActualOff by
CWS @ BOS9.02314.0
STL @ NYY8.62011.4
TB @ COL11.22210.8

Every graded game

Projected total vs. actual, and whether our higher-probability moneyline side won · 83 games
GameProj totalActualMissHome win%ML side
STL @ NYY8.62011.40.59
SF @ TEX9.963.90.49
SD @ ARI9.963.90.54
WSH @ PHI9.890.80.56
TOR @ HOU9.445.40.56
PIT @ MIL8.971.90.56
TB @ COL11.22210.80.36
LAD @ CHC8.9156.10.56
CWS @ BOS9.1166.90.51
SD @ ARI10.8132.20.53
STL @ NYY8.826.80.57
TOR @ HOU9.690.60.52
PIT @ MIL8.662.60.59
MIN @ KC9.6100.40.50
WSH @ PHI9.654.60.61
MIA @ ATL9.363.30.52
NYM @ CLE8.380.30.50
LAD @ CHC8.662.60.44
OAK @ CIN8.990.10.57
LAA @ BAL9.345.30.52
MIA @ ATL8.953.90.50
SF @ TEX9.363.30.51
CWS @ BOS9.045.00.49
SD @ ARI10.3143.60.46
STL @ NYY9.245.20.59
PIT @ MIL8.162.10.53
LAD @ CHC9.4133.60.52
OAK @ CIN9.354.30.54
TOR @ HOU9.490.40.62
NYM @ CLE8.7112.30.46
WSH @ PHI9.7144.30.51
TB @ COL11.847.80.44
DET @ SEA9.163.00.60
MIN @ KC9.536.50.52
LAA @ BAL8.171.10.58
NYM @ CLE9.3199.70.44
PIT @ MIL8.771.70.57
LAA @ BAL8.853.90.57
MIA @ ATL9.1144.90.52
OAK @ CIN9.0112.00.60
MIN @ KC9.272.20.52
SD @ ARI10.264.20.51
TOR @ CHC7.652.60.53
DET @ SEA8.9112.10.52
WSH @ PHI9.8100.20.61
CWS @ BOS9.02314.00.53
HOU @ SD8.690.40.50
BAL @ TEX9.836.80.53
TB @ SEA8.635.60.52
COL @ STL9.154.10.59
OAK @ BOS8.9145.10.59
NYM @ PIT9.3100.70.47
CLE @ CWS9.1100.90.50
LAA @ MIA8.771.60.60
TOR @ PHI9.090.00.63
ATL @ NYY9.054.00.53
TOR @ PHI9.3122.70.64
CIN @ WSH9.9100.10.44
LAD @ ARI9.536.50.44
CLE @ CWS8.290.80.50
DET @ SF8.880.80.50
ATL @ NYY9.190.10.47
LAA @ MIA8.771.70.54
OAK @ BOS9.5100.50.59
HOU @ SD9.054.00.50
TB @ SEA9.154.00.50
COL @ STL8.7145.30.57
MIN @ MIL9.272.20.52
NYM @ PIT9.490.40.50
BAL @ TEX9.563.50.47
CHC @ KC9.390.30.46
NYM @ PIT8.9123.10.50
LAA @ MIA8.7156.30.54
COL @ STL10.0111.00.60
LAD @ ARI9.964.00.50
TOR @ PHI9.3133.70.61
CLE @ CWS9.081.00.52
DET @ SF8.544.50.50
BAL @ TEX9.6155.40.52
MIN @ MIL8.371.30.59
CHC @ KC9.8122.20.38
ATL @ NYY9.536.50.55
CIN @ WSH10.082.00.46

What the market says

A market we deliberately don't model — the market's own record
MLB run line
42.8% of −1.5 favorites cover

Across 11,969 final regular-season games with a standard run line, the moneyline favorite laying −1.5 covered 42.8% of the time and won outright 58.3%. We publish no run-line projection — the market prices this one efficiently — so this is the market's record, not ours.

Market benchmark — not a Nebula projection.

One number — Brier score

A rotating look at how we grade ourselves

For our moneyline probabilities, Brier squares the gap between the win probability we published and what happened (1 or 0), then averages it. 0.250 is a coin flip; lower is better. Reported live, never smoothed.

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