NSBA4 · 2026 Season

Week 5: The Model Gets Cooked

Two double-digit favorites lost outright, the losers negged themselves out of it, and mingle/Yunyi and cryo pulled clear as the two new #1 seeds.
Same week, several ways to read it — with xGets coverage analytics (expected vs actual buzzes) in every version. One straight science-bowl recap plus the NBA, NFL, Soccer, and Baseball reskins. Pick your sport.

The Recaps

📚 Science Bowl
The Straight Recap
Sweeps, bonuses, negs — and the xGets coverage ledger. The original.
🏀 NBA
The Hardwood Cut
Buckets, FT%, turnovers, expected buckets (xFGM).
🏈 NFL
The Gridiron Cut
Scoring plays, red-zone %, turnovers, expected points.
⚽ Soccer
The Match Report
Goals, finishing %, giveaways, xG vs actual.
⚾ Baseball
The Box Score
Runs, RISP%, rally-killers, expected runs (xR).

Standings & Awards

🧮 Playoff Picture
Odds & Paths
Top-4-per-conference odds, seeds, remaining games, and each team's path in.
👑 Category Kings
Best in Each Subject
The top buzzer in Bio, Chem, CS, Earth/Space, Math & Physics through five weeks.
🗺️ Team Coverage
Subject Heatmap
Which categories every team owns — % of each subject's tossups they win.
🎯 Prop Report Card
Did They Beat the Number?
Just for fun: every player vs their projected points line — biggest overs, biggest busts.
⭐ Player Ratings
SofaScore-Style
Every player graded 3.0–10.0 for their Week-5 game — buzzes, speed, bonuses, negs.
🏆 Headlines:  cryo demolished Connor Chang 134–26 after the model made Connor a −9 favorite  ·  James W's ceiling landed 110–40 on a CS sweep  ·  sumin edged Fez by 2 in the game of the week  ·  jonathan negged 6 times and lost the lowest-scoring game of the week  ·  mingle/Yunyi won at 38% bonus on pure volume  ·  roshan was clean, fast, and the Player of the Week.