No Play of the Day This Week
There's no pod to grade for June 1 through June 7. The headline call simply didn't run this week, so there's no single number to lead with on that front.
That leaves the boards to do the talking. Across the seven days, MatchWiz graded 527 rows on the MLB side, spanning ranked matchups, hitter stat boards, and pitcher stat boards. One golf event also graded out, and its story is worth its own section below.
The Ranked Matchups
Start with the ranked calls. The top 3 ranked matchups went 48 of 94 on the week. Widen to the top 5, and the record moves to 213 of 465. The top 10 finished 437 of 953.
Pull back to the full board and the count grows to 4637 hits out of 13518 graded matchups. That's the shape every week takes: the tightest tier is the smallest sample, and the full board carries by far the most volume.
Hitter Boards: Feast or Famine
On the hitter side, a few stat boards outperformed the pack. Hits led at 56% across 1521 graded lines. Total bases came in at 51% of 1111. H+R+RBI landed at 54% across 859 lines. DFS points settled at 42% of 1521.
The rest struggled. Runs finished at 37%. Walks sat at 26%. RBI came in lower still, at 29%. Home runs stayed the toughest number on the board, at 12% of 1521 graded lines. Stolen bases were the hardest of all: just 7%.
Pitcher Boards Carry the Week
Pitcher walks produced the best number anywhere on the site this week: 71% in the top 3, easing to 52% across the full 132-line board. Hits allowed wasn't far behind — 62% top 3, 60% full, across 143 graded lines.
Pitcher strikeouts matched top to bottom, at 57% across 151 lines whether you looked at the top 3 or the whole board. Pitcher outs did the same trick at a lower level: 48% top 3, 49% full, on 154 lines.
Earned runs went the other way. The top 3 hit just 38%, while the full 153-line board climbed to 52% — a rare case where the wider net outperformed the narrow one. Pitcher DFS points followed a more familiar pattern: 48% in the top 3, dropping to 31% once all 168 graded lines are counted.
Golf: Scheffler Fades, the Winner Wasn't Even Close
72 players graded at the Memorial Tournament pres. by Workday. Our top-ranked pick going in was Scottie Scheffler. He finished 12th.
That's a miss on its own, but the bigger one sits with the winner. The player who actually won the tournament was ranked 54th on our board before it started. That's not a name that was close to the top — it's a name that wasn't part of the conversation.
The depth of the board held up better than the top of it. All 10 of our graded top 10 players made the cut, and the best finish among them was 4th. The ranking missed the winner by a wide margin, but it didn't miss the field.
Every number above comes from the same graded ledger the boards publish — roll any board back to that week and you'll find the same calls. Research signals from a statistical model, not betting advice, and no outcome is guaranteed. 21+, please play responsibly (1-800-GAMBLER). Method: how MatchWiz works.