Today's matchup
Jackson is on the road against Los Angeles Dodgers on the Friday, September 4, 2026 slate. He shows up on 6 boards — outs recorded (70.8/100, #17), walks allowed (46.8/100, #21), strikeouts (42.6/100, #10), fantasy points (38.7/100, #17). We've got him at 14.6 on the outs recorded board. Open any board row for the full breakdown of what's driving it.
Season line
4 starts, 1-2, 5.59 ERA, 1.71 WHIP, 19.1 innings. He's struck out 17 over that span, against 15 walks. This is the baseline the matchup adjusts from — the model starts here and then asks what the specific lineup he's facing does to strikeout arms, how the park plays, and how deep he's likely to go.
He throws left-handed
Jackson is a left-hander, and that matters more for a starter than it does for most hitters. Lineups get built specifically to attack lefties — managers stack right-handed bats against them — so the lineup he draws on a given night swings his projection further than a righty's would. The model prices the actual lineup rather than a season-long rate for exactly that reason. A stacked righty lineup is the spot where his strikeout projection comes down hardest.
His last 4 starts
Jackson has 17 strikeouts in 19.3 innings across his last 4 starts, a 7.9 K/9, with a 5.59 ERA over that stretch and 15 walks. Strikeouts are the one pitcher market where our model has found real, graded room — projected workload and the specific lineup he draws move that number more than a season-long rate does. Start-by-start detail is in the log below.
How long he goes
Jackson is averaging 4.8 innings a start across his last 4 outings, with a high of 7.0 and about 90 pitches a night. He's not going deep, and that caps the strikeout and outs projections no matter how good the matchup looks — you can't strike out hitters you don't face. Expected batters faced is one of the bigger inputs to his score for exactly this reason.
Where he lands across our boards
Jackson was scored on 6 boards in that matchup, and the spread is the interesting part: outs recorded graded 70.8/100 while hits allowed came in at 28.6/100. Same player, same game, same opposing arm — different questions. A spread that wide usually means the matchup favours one kind of outcome over another, and it's the clearest argument for reading the board that matches what you actually care about.
How the model reads him
Every arm on the slate goes through the same math, Jackson included. Opposing lineup, handedness, expected batters faced, park, weather — weighted, combined, and normalized 0–100. We keep the weighting to ourselves and re-tune it weekly on real results. What we don't keep is the record: every projection here is graded against the box score at the line the market offered.
What we'd flag
Three caveats worth carrying. Not every player gets a posted line — book coverage runs to about 87% for confirmed starters, so a blank line is the market's silence, not ours. Lineup changes land late enough to strand a projection published hours earlier. And judging any of this on a single night is meaningless; the model is tuned on hundreds of settled outcomes.