Neil’s Substack

Tracking the top drivers in the sport, all season long.

The following table is a list of MLB teams with their Elo ratings and their predicted wins throughout the 2026 season.

Power ratings for every WNBA team and player this season.

Aggregated market forecasts for college football teams this season.

Aggregating each team's market odds to avoid relegation, finish highly or win the 2026-27 EPL championship.

Aggregated predictions, Elo rankings and forecasts for every NFL team this season.

A roundup of what I wrote, read, watched, etc. over the past week.

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25 years ago, Florida assembled a group of Young Guns who became All-Stars, champions and longtime MLB starters. They just barely got the chance to actually pitch together.

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Against a backdrop of rampant Ring Culture, the PGA Tour became the latest league to create a side competition designed to produce a separate trophy worth chasing.

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Reese is rewriting the WNBA’s rebounding record book again. But the bigger story is that her production is translating to winning basketball.

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Five years, $230 million, six draft picks, dozens of accusations and zero worthwhile football later, Cleveland is still trying to make the worst decision in franchise history work.

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The great MVP debate of the 2010s was about everything WAR can capture. The modern sequel is about everything it can’t.

A roundup of what I wrote, read, watched, etc. over the past week.

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Bad enough to sell at the deadline despite elite underlying metrics, yet good enough to stay in the hunt anyway, Detroit is having one of MLB’s strangest and most consequential mediocre seasons ever.