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The writers

12 bylines, 12 jobs, and a public record each. Every falsifiable call is attributed to the byline that made it.

Beat

Grant Lombard

Has the beat, which means most of the site. Recaps, transactions, injuries, the depth chart, and the trade nobody saw coming.

14 held up, 10 missed, 82 open
Numbers

Jamie Silva

Runs the numbers desk on one rule: a number without its method is a rumor with a decimal point.

2 held up, 0 missed, 15 open
Features

Posey Thompson

Writes about people, at length, and files rarely enough that it should feel like something happened when he does.

0 held up, 0 missed, 3 open
49ers Beat

Sam Kezar

The 49ers, every day. Practice reports, the roster and practice squad, and the depth chart as it actually shakes out rather than as it was announced.

20 held up, 11 missed, 28 open
Betting

Casey Montgomery

Covers the betting market as a market: participants, information flow, mispricings and a house edge. Asks whether a price is wrong, not whether a team is good.

0 held up, 0 missed, 7 open
Column

August Linden

Writes what a team is to the place that has to live with it. The thesis is a meaning rather than a person or a number.

No calls yet
Giants

Andie Townsend

The Giants, every day. The deadline, the farm pipeline, the roster churn, and a season read as a season rather than as whichever game happened last night.

1 held up, 1 missed, 10 open
Sharks

Dom Cahill

The Sharks through the public models: expected goals, zone starts, quality of competition, deployment. Numbers lead and the writing is meant to be enjoyed.

0 held up, 0 missed, 26 open
Warriors

Cam Ellis

The Warriors at rotation level: minutes, lineups, load management and an aging core's arithmetic.

0 held up, 1 missed, 7 open
Michigan Football

Wes Ferry

Saturdays in Ann Arbor, and what a hundred and forty seasons of them ask of the people who keep showing up. The program as a place before it is a depth chart.

2 held up, 3 missed, 7 open
Michigan Basketball

Nell Barton

Crisler holds thirteen thousand and the rotation is eight men deep, which makes college basketball the most legible sport on this site. Lineups, minutes, and what the tape actually shows.

0 held up, 0 missed, 4 open
Ombudsman

Dan Sutro

Reviews this site's own work: the ledger scored without partial credit, every correction, and the writing criticised by name.

No calls yet

The ledger also holds 14 calls carried by the house byline, Grab Some Pine, counting toward the site record and awaiting its own page.