Setlist prediction — 2026-07-15
ENMARKET ARENA · Savannah · based on 1986 prior shows · 46 recently-played songs rotation-suppressed · actual setlist known
Predicted vs. actual
Predicted
Set 1: Buried Alive [3:23] · The Moma Dance [8:43] ★21% · Back on the Train [8:17] · Roggae [8:52] ★23% · Tube [8:36] ★21% · Wolfman's Brother [12:52] ★31% · Limb By Limb [8:28] · Hey Stranger [9:02] ★21% · Bouncing Around the Room [3:44]
Set 2: No Men In No Man's Land [10:54] ★29% · Ruby Waves [16:19] ★53% · Fuego [16:54] ★50% · Crosseyed and Painless [13:27] ★45% · Twist [10:10] ★26% · Backwards Down the Number Line [7:42] · Character Zero [6:44]
Encore: Slave to the Traffic Light [9:46] · Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S. [5:51]
Actual — ENMARKET ARENA
Set 1: Dinner and a Movie [4:05], Vultures [13:01], Taste [8:15], The Wedge [29:06] > Pebbles and Marbles [8:19], Divided Sky [12:50], Halley's Comet [8:30], Drift While You're Sleeping [11:40]
Set 2: Sightless Escape [21:38], A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing [16:28] > Crosseyed and Painless [15:54] > Farmhouse [5:44], Scents and Subtle Sounds [16:20] > Ghost [11:16]
Encore: Rock and Roll [8:01]
Score vs. what they actually played
The raw score is graded against a perfect setlist call, which never happens. Phish rotate deliberately and go out of their way to be unpredictable, so 100 is unreachable — over the last 60 shows the score runs from about 2 to 42.09, with a median near 19.3. That is why the headline ranks this night against the ones actually achieved rather than against an imaginary ceiling. The number that means something is Skill: how much of the headroom above a baseline that just guesses the most-played songs this prediction captured. 0% is “no better than guessing the hits”; anything above it is real signal. On this night it came out -14.4%: the model did worse than the baseline, i.e. its cleverness actively cost it against simply guessing the hits. Difficulty is the average rarity of the songs they actually played (4.03 bits) — a night of deep cuts scores lower for the same skill, which is why the headline is normalised against a perfect prediction of this show.
Sub-scores
Each is out of 100 and rarity-weighted: picking the song at all earns the most, putting it in the right set earns more, landing it near the right slot earns the rest.
Precision & recall
| Metric | Value | What it means | |
|---|---|---|---|
| precision | 5.6% | Of what it predicted, how much got played | |
| recall | 6.7% | Of what got played, how much it predicted | |
| f1 | 6.1% | Harmonic mean of the two | |
| precision (rarity-weighted) | 6.9% | Precision, weighted by how rare each song is | |
| recall (rarity-weighted) | 5.7% | Recall, weighted by how rare each song is | |
| top5 hit rate | 20.0% | Of the top-5 shortlist, how much got played |
18 songs predicted, 15 played. The rarity-weighted variants are the interesting ones: calling a warhorse is easy, calling a bustout is not, and the weighted numbers pay out accordingly.
Sequence
| Adjacent pairs called right | 0 of 15 predicted |
| Adjacent pairs actually played | 12 |
| Longest correct run | 1 song |
Getting two songs adjacent in the right order is much harder than getting both somewhere in the show.
Structure
| Set | Predicted | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| Set 1 | 9 | 8 |
| Set 2 | 7 | 6 |
| Encore | 2 | 1 |
| Total | 18 | 15 |
Biggest win
The rarest song it called correctly — 3.463 bits (common). Right set, too.
Biggest miss
The rarest song it didn't see coming — 6.976 bits (rare).
By rarity
How it did across rarity bands. The warhorses are supposed to be easy; the deep cuts are where a model earns its keep.
| Tier | Played | Called | Hit rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| staple | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
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| common | 5 | 1 | 20.0% |
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| uncommon | 7 | 0 | 0.0% |
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| rare | 2 | 0 | 0.0% |
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| bustout | 0 | 0 | — |
Song by song
Everything they played, rarest first.
| Song | Rarity | Tier | Called? | Right set? | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dinner and a Movie | 6.976 bits | rare | miss | — | 0.0 |
| Sightless Escape | 6.034 bits | rare | miss | — | 0.0 |
| Vultures | 4.377 bits | uncommon | miss | — | 0.0 |
| Rock and Roll | 4.216 bits | uncommon | miss | — | 0.0 |
| Farmhouse | 4.174 bits | uncommon | miss | — | 0.0 |
| Pebbles and Marbles | 4.107 bits | uncommon | miss | — | 0.0 |
| A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing | 4.085 bits | uncommon | miss | — | 0.0 |
| Scents and Subtle Sounds | 3.826 bits | uncommon | miss | — | 0.0 |
| The Wedge | 3.704 bits | uncommon | miss | — | 0.0 |
| Crosseyed and Painless | 3.463 bits | common | hit | yes | 0.821 |
| Halley's Comet | 3.379 bits | common | miss | — | 0.0 |
| Divided Sky | 3.317 bits | common | miss | — | 0.0 |
| Taste | 3.299 bits | common | miss | — | 0.0 |
| Drift While You're Sleeping | 3.292 bits | common | miss | — | 0.0 |
| Ghost | 2.248 bits | staple | miss | — | 0.0 |
Predicted but not played
Reported, but never subtracted from the headline: penalising bold calls by rarity would teach the model that rare songs are never worth predicting, which is the opposite of what this is for.
Predicted by model vpre-1.1 · scored by v3.1.0 rules.
Top 5 most likely songs
- Chalk Dust Torturein heavy recent rotation; played on this date before; gap 5 (usual ~2)
- Harry Hoodin heavy recent rotation; played on this date before; gap 4 (usual ~3)
- Ghostin heavy recent rotation; due back by gap; gap 5 (usual ~3)
- Possumin heavy recent rotation; played on this date before; gap 4 (usual ~2)
- Blaze Onin heavy recent rotation; played on this date before; gap 3 (usual ~3)
Predicted full setlist
Set 1: Buried Alive [3:23] · The Moma Dance [8:43] · Back on the Train [8:17] · Roggae [8:52] · Tube [8:36] · Wolfman's Brother [12:52] · Limb By Limb [8:28] · Hey Stranger [9:02] · Bouncing Around the Room [3:44]
Set 2: No Men In No Man's Land [10:54] · Ruby Waves [16:19] · Fuego [16:54] · Crosseyed and Painless [13:27] · Twist [10:10] · Backwards Down the Number Line [7:42] · Character Zero [6:44]
Encore: Slave to the Traffic Light [9:46] · Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S. [5:51]
Ordering is heuristic (openers/encore placed by role); treat it as a likely song pool with structure, not an exact sequence.
Predicted lengths & jam odds
| Song | Set | Likely length | Range (q10–q90) | P(jam chart) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buried Alive | Set 1 | 3:23 | 2:40 – 4:02 |
3.1%
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| The Moma Dance | Set 1 | 8:43 | 7:39 – 12:12 |
20.9%
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| Back on the Train | Set 1 | 8:17 | 6:49 – 8:59 |
11.9%
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| Roggae | Set 1 | 8:52 | 8:03 – 10:50 |
22.9%
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| Tube | Set 1 | 8:36 | 6:14 – 11:54 |
20.6%
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| Wolfman's Brother | Set 1 | 12:52 | 10:04 – 15:03 |
31.2%
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| Limb By Limb | Set 1 | 8:28 | 7:12 – 10:21 |
12.2%
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| Hey Stranger | Set 1 | 9:02 | 6:46 – 10:27 |
21.4%
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| Bouncing Around the Room | Set 1 | 3:44 | 3:37 – 7:29 |
1.5%
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| No Men In No Man's Land | Set 2 | 10:54 | 6:43 – 15:07 |
28.9%
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| Ruby Waves | Set 2 | 16:19 | 13:40 – 29:43 |
53.0%
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| Fuego | Set 2 | 16:54 | 8:05 – 30:17 |
50.0%
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| Crosseyed and Painless | Set 2 | 13:27 | 8:12 – 19:05 |
44.9%
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| Twist | Set 2 | 10:10 | 7:52 – 14:25 |
25.6%
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| Backwards Down the Number Line | Set 2 | 7:42 | 6:57 – 9:26 |
13.1%
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| Character Zero | Set 2 | 6:44 | 5:41 – 7:25 |
14.7%
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| Slave to the Traffic Light | Encore | 9:46 | 8:33 – 10:36 |
7.7%
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| Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S. | Encore | 5:51 | 5:31 – 6:34 |
1.1%
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Lengths are recency-weighted medians conditioned on the set — the q10–q90 band is where the honesty lives. P(jam chart) is the chance curators later flag this version; it is deliberately estimated from curated history only, since the last year of shows hasn't been written up yet.
Bustout watch
Model backtest: top-5 hit rate 39.5%, setlist recall 31.4% over 40 shows. Full scoring history →