NFL Week 9, Sunday, November 8, 2026
first one ever!!
Ian picked every game right. All fifteen. It is the third perfect week in the 28½-season history of this group, and the first one ever in a week with more than 14 games.
Jeff and Spencer, who started this thing in October 1998, have now picked 481 weeks and 7,207 games each. Their combined total of perfect weeks is zero.
Week 9, from the results sheet
13–2
13–2
13–2
15–0
The pick sheet
Every perfect week, ever
| Date | Week | Who | Record | Games that week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2019 | Week 8 | Jacob | 14–0 | 14 |
| Oct 13, 2024 | Week 6 | Jacob | 14–0 | 14 |
| Nov 8, 2026 | Week 9 | Ian | 15–0 | 15 |
| Oct 1998 to now | 481 weeks, 7,207 games | Jeff | 0 | 13s, 14s, 15s, 16s |
| Oct 1998 to now | 481 weeks, 7,207 games | Spencer | 0 | 13s, 14s, 15s, 16s |
Meanwhile, in the last 28½ seasons
Jeff and Spencer made their first picks on October 11, 1998. Here is some of what happened in the world, year by year, while they were waiting for a perfect week. Each year shows how they did that season.
What you could have done instead
The group calls it 28½ years because this is season number 29. The calendar says October 11, 1998 to November 8, 2026: 10,255 days, or 1,465 weeks. Jeff and Spencer spent it making 14,414 picks between them, none of them part of a perfect week. Here is what else fits in that time.
So close. So many times.
In 481 weeks each, Jeff and Spencer have finished exactly one game short of perfect 11 times between them. Here is every one of them, with the one red square that ruined it.
How many games they miss in a week
Every week since 1998, by number of losses
The results sheet records each week's total, not individual picks, so there is no way to say which game sank each week. Where a week had clear upsets, they are listed as the likeliest suspects.
Two games short
Jeff has lost exactly two games in a week 19 times. Spencer has done it 23 times.
The math says one of them is owed
Take each man's career pick rate and run it across every week he has played, and the odds say Jeff should have about one perfect week by now. Spencer should be close to one. The actual count is still zero.
Treats every pick as an independent coin weighted to the picker's career win rate. Real weeks are lumpier than that, which is the only thing Jeff and Spencer have going for them here.
Fun facts from the sheet
Everything here comes from 29 seasons of the results spreadsheet: 481 weeks and 19,287 picks.
Every season, Jeff vs. Spencer
Best full season in green, worst in red