Every number, explained.

Each stat in a CommishDesk Issue has a page: what it means, a worked example from a real fixture, and the code that computes it. All of it is free to read.

Concepts

One page for each stat: what it means, a worked example from a real fixture, and the code that computes it.

  • All-play record

    All-play asks how a team would have done if it had played everyone every week.

    /docs/all-play/

  • Blowouts and the shape of the week

    Blowout rule. A completed head-to-head game is a blowout when the loser's score is at most 0.65 times the winner's (BLOWOUT_RATIO, exposed as blowout_threshold).

    /docs/blowout-and-week-shape/

  • Coaching efficiency and bench regret

    Optimal lineup. For each team and week the engine finds the highest-scoring legal lineup that could have been started from the players the team had that week.

    /docs/coaching-efficiency-and-bench-regret/

  • Draft grade

    The grade is editorial, not the raw pick delta, which would over-reward late-round picks.

    /docs/draft-grade/

  • Draft superlatives

    Superlatives are the extremes of delta across the draft (see pick-delta-and-consensus).

    /docs/draft-superlatives/

  • Draft team rows

    Each team gets one row that joins three results: the board (what the team drafted), the consensus comparison and the grade (see draft-grade).

    /docs/draft-team-rows/

  • Expected wins and luck

    Expected wins is the number of games a team would have won if its scores had been played against the whole league each week.

    /docs/expected-wins-and-luck/

  • Lead angles and storylines

    These two lists are the engine's own suggestions for what an issue could open on.

    /docs/leads-and-storylines/

  • NFL byes

    A bye is a week an NFL team does not play.

    /docs/byes/

  • Pick delta against the consensus board

    Every draft pick is measured against a consensus ranking of the same players.

    /docs/pick-delta-and-consensus/

  • Playoff picture

    The playoff picture is derived from the standings order and the league's declared bracket size, N:

    /docs/playoff-picture/

  • Points and scoring

    Season totals. points_for is the sum of the team's weekly scores through the last regular-season week, each week rounded to two decimals.

    /docs/points-and-scoring/

  • Positional runs and draft shape

    draft_summary describes the shape of the whole board.

    /docs/draft-positional-runs/

  • Power rank and nudge

    Model score. model_score is shown to three decimals, but model_rank is assigned on the unrounded score.

    /docs/power-rank-and-nudge/

  • Record and standings

    A team's record is its wins, losses and ties in head-to-head games, folded from the week-by-week matchups from week 1 through the last regular-season week.

    /docs/record-and-standings/

  • Stakes and next week

    Next week's preview pairs the teams that play each other and says what each game is worth.

    /docs/stakes-and-next-week/

  • Streaks

    A streak is the run of identical results that ends at the team's most recent game.

    /docs/streaks/

  • Team history

    history.weekly has one row for each week from week 1 through the issue week in which the team has a matchup row.

    /docs/team-history/

  • Transactions and the trade market

    The transactions block is the weekly market desk.

    /docs/transactions-and-trade-market/

  • Weekly leaders

    The leaders block ranks players and lineups across the whole league for the week.

    /docs/leaders/

Guides

How to read the numbers and the files behind them.