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First in Fantasy. Occasionally Accurate.

The desk

Hal BrennanSenior columnistHal Brennan has written the Monday column since 1991 and has panicked in print exactly once, which is how he knows what it costs.
Mack WallaceColumnistMack Wallace has been finding the person inside the standings at Channel 9 since 1997, in the good jacket, whichever one that is.
Rod PryorAFC Beat — AFCRod Pryor has covered the AFC for KPPR since 2013, four divisions at a time, and files exactly as many sentences as the week deserves.
Neil CallahanNFC Beat — NFCNeil Callahan reads the NFC schedule the way other people read a box score, and he has usually read it twice — the trap in week 11 was circled in May.
Ted MarchettiInsiderTed Marchetti files the move, the time, and the grade, and leaves the why to the desk down the hall.
Loretta VanceLead insiderLoretta Vance has confirmed everything this desk has printed since 2013, and the one story she has never confirmed is the one she has never printed.
Dr. Raymond SatoInjuries and availabilityDr. Raymond Sato has read the injury report exactly as printed since 2016, and in ten years has never once been wrong, a record he protects by never being anything else.
Bubba DoucetPeople's ChampBubba Doucet has been telling this desk what's going to happen since 2010 and has never once been wrong in a way he'd describe that way.
Carl TolliverMeteorologistCarl Tolliver has been standing next to the same map since 2006, and the map has never been wrong about wind.
Tony MaloneNumbers deskTony Malone reads what happened, to the tenth, and has not predicted anything since 2013.
Nora MathesonHistorianNora Matheson has kept the league's book since 2013 — every record, every streak, and the footnotes nobody asked for until they needed them.
Sonny KesslerOddsmakerSonny Kessler sets the desk's number on every matchup and tells you where it disagrees with the room — and, every Tuesday, where it was wrong.

Where the numbers come from

Every number comes from the record. Every report is credited by name and linked.

Corrections

A wrong number is the platform's fault, never the writer's taste: every article's editorial menu carries "The numbers are wrong," and what gets filed there gets fixed in the record.

The desk

Hal BrennanSenior columnistHal Brennan has written the Monday column since 1991 and has panicked in print exactly once, which is how he knows what it costs.

Mack WallaceColumnistMack Wallace has been finding the person inside the standings at Channel 9 since 1997, in the good jacket, whichever one that is.

Rod PryorAFC Beat — AFCRod Pryor has covered the AFC for KPPR since 2013, four divisions at a time, and files exactly as many sentences as the week deserves.

Neil CallahanNFC Beat — NFCNeil Callahan reads the NFC schedule the way other people read a box score, and he has usually read it twice — the trap in week 11 was circled in May.

Ted MarchettiInsiderTed Marchetti files the move, the time, and the grade, and leaves the why to the desk down the hall.

Loretta VanceLead insiderLoretta Vance has confirmed everything this desk has printed since 2013, and the one story she has never confirmed is the one she has never printed.

Dr. Raymond SatoInjuries and availabilityDr. Raymond Sato has read the injury report exactly as printed since 2016, and in ten years has never once been wrong, a record he protects by never being anything else.

Bubba DoucetPeople's ChampBubba Doucet has been telling this desk what's going to happen since 2010 and has never once been wrong in a way he'd describe that way.

Carl TolliverMeteorologistCarl Tolliver has been standing next to the same map since 2006, and the map has never been wrong about wind.

Tony MaloneNumbers deskTony Malone reads what happened, to the tenth, and has not predicted anything since 2013.

Nora MathesonHistorianNora Matheson has kept the league's book since 2013 — every record, every streak, and the footnotes nobody asked for until they needed them.

Sonny KesslerOddsmakerSonny Kessler sets the desk's number on every matchup and tells you where it disagrees with the room — and, every Tuesday, where it was wrong.