Marvin's Phish Pick · Nightly Setlist Oracle

Marvin's Phish Pick

Tonight's Phish setlist prediction: the top ten songs, one likely bustout, and a card you can build yourself.

Marvin's Phish Pick is a nightly Phish setlist prediction tool. Every night it forecasts the next show's setlist, six songs plus one likely bustout, drawn live from the phish.net API, then grades itself against what really played. Tonight is July 12, 2026 at Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana (Summer 2026, show 5). Build your own six, share your card in Discord, and see if you can out-pick the oracle.

Tonight: 2026-07-12 · Ruoff Music Center · Noblesville, IN
Summer 2026 · Show #5
Last completed: 2026-07-11 (graded below)
Data: phish.net v5 API · through 7/11

Tonight's Board

The oracle's top ten for Sunday 7/12, ranked deep enough to build an off-chalk card. Tap any card to open its rotation, venue history, 2025 slot record, and how the oracle has done with it this tour.

The bustout · most likely, not most overdue

My Sweet One

63show gap
253all-time plays
Jan 2026last heard

The lane now ranks by likelihood of returning, not by biggest gap. My Sweet One is a 253-play staple that dropped out only 63 shows ago and was in rotation this January, far likelier to resurface than a song dead since the 1990s. Uncle Pen and the gap-600 covers move to the ledger as long shots.

Build Your Six

Pick six songs and one bustout, then lock in your card next to the oracle's. Test your instincts against last night first to see how the scoring works.

Your card

Tap to choose up to six songs. 0 / 6 chosen

Your locked card is saved in this browser, so it is still here when you return after the show.

The 7/11 Report Card

Self grading, right under the board, so the track record is always visible. Graded against the real setlist from the phish.net v5 API (https://api.phish.net/v5/setlists/showdate/2026-07-11.json).

3 / 6 songs
0 / 1 bustout
Up from 2 of 6. Carini and Everything's Right hit in Set 2, and Tweezer Reprise closed the encore once Tweezer landed, exactly as the coupling rule called it.
Tour track record 7/10 · 2/6 7/11 · 3/6 Running · 5/12 songs · 0/2 bustouts
Miss
Bathtub Gin
Set 1 · sat out again
Miss
Drift While You're Sleeping
the Ruoff lean did not cash
Miss
Split Open and Melt
longest gap stayed home
Hit
Carini
closed Set 2, a night after the 7/10 miss
Hit
Everything's Right
opened Set 2
Hit
Tweezer Reprise
Tweezer landed, so the reprise did too

What played · 7/11 Ruoff

Set 1AC/DC Bag, Punch You in the Eye, Theme from the Bottom, Timber (Jerry the Mule), 555, Reba, Dirt, Most Events Aren't Planned Set 2Everything's Right, Tweezer, Golden Age, My Friend My Friend, Tweezer, No Quarter, Carini EncoreA Life Beyond The Dream, Tweezer Reprise

Biggest gap played: No Quarter at 43, short of the 50-show line. Two nights running with no true bustout, which is why the bustout lane now favors likely returns over dormant records.

The Evidence Drawers

The 2025 Lens why the model trusts encores

All 48 Phish shows of 2025 plus fan reviews (setlists/showyear/2025.json), tested against this tour.

1 / 4
tour openers matched a 2025 top-10 opener
5 / 8
tour encore slots were a 2025 top-10 encore

2025 openers barely predict this tour, so the oracle drops them. 2025 encores call most of the slots, so tonight leans on Bug. Fan reviews focus on the long jams (Tweezer, Ghost, Light, Carini, Ruby Waves), so the calibration weights Set 2 vehicles and a strong encore.

Top 10, not top 5, on purpose: the top of each list is chalk everyone picks. The value tags flag songs still unplayed this tour, the deeper picks you take to climb a prediction leaderboard instead of tying the field.

2025 Openers weak · plays

  1. Free 5
  2. Buried Alive 5 value
  3. 46 Days 3 value
  4. Runaway Jim 3
  5. The Moma Dance 3
  6. Punch You in the Eye 3
  7. Sand 2
  8. Cars Trucks Buses 2 value
  9. Bathtub Gin 2 tonight
  10. AC/DC Bag 2

2025 Encores golden · plays

  1. Tweezer Reprise 8
  2. Harry Hood 6
  3. S.A.N.T.O.S. 6
  4. First Tube 6
  5. Possum 5
  6. Bug 4 tonight
  7. Wilson 4 value
  8. Slave to the Traffic Light 4
  9. A Life Beyond The Dream 3
  10. Run Like an Antelope 3

2025 Set 2 Jams heat · plays

  1. WGTYM 10
  2. Tweezer 10
  3. Light 9 value
  4. Twist 9
  5. Everything's Right 9
  6. Chalk Dust Torture 9
  7. Carini 9
  8. Fuego 8
  9. Ghost 8
  10. A Wave of Hope 8
The Next Two Nights 7/14 & 7/15 Savannah

Rolling v5 forecast with the 2-show cooldown. Both Savannah nights are venue debuts, so no venue signal applies. Bustouts ranked by likely return.

Tue 7/14 Enmarket Arena · Savannah · debut

Also Sprach ZarathustraSet 1·12
EvolveSet 1·12
Divided SkySet 1·11
LightSet 2·11
Chalk Dust TortureSet 2·3
Harry HoodEncore·2
Likely bustout
If I Could
gap 59 · last 2025 · a due ballad

Wed 7/15 Enmarket Arena · Savannah · night 7

Mike's SongSet 1·3
Weekapaug GrooveSet 1·3
SandSet 2·3
GhostSet 2·5
First TubeEncore·2
WilsonEncore·5
Likely bustout
Sleeping Monkey
gap 58 · last 2025 · quirky, still alive
The Run So Far every Summer 2026 show played
July 7 · Kohl Center, Madison WI
Set 1Chalk Dust Torture, Ghost, Back on the Train, Free, Mike's Song, TMWSIY, Avenu Malkenu, Weekapaug Groove, A Wave of Hope, Character Zero
Set 2Run Like an Antelope, Fuego, Life Saving Gun, Sand, Ruby Waves, Suzy Greenberg
EncoreSlave to the Traffic Light, Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S.
July 8 · Kohl Center, Madison WI
Set 1Sigma Oasis, The Moma Dance, Runaway Jim, Cities, Leaves, Julius, Cavern
Set 2Kill Devil Falls, Prince Caspian, Twist, No Men In No Man's Land, Possum, Monsters, Harry Hood
EncoreWaste, First Tube
July 10 · Ruoff Music Center, Noblesville IN
Set 1Blaze On, Plasma, Blaze On, Roggae, Tube, Wolfman's Brother, Limb By Limb, Hey Stranger, Bouncing Around the Room
Set 2Oblivion, Down with Disease, You Enjoy Myself, Backwards Down the Number Line, Loving Cup
EncoreWhat's Going Through Your Mind, Rocky Top
July 11 · Ruoff Music Center, Noblesville IN · graded above
Set 1AC/DC Bag, Punch You in the Eye, Theme from the Bottom, Timber (Jerry the Mule), 555, Reba, Dirt, Most Events Aren't Planned
Set 2Everything's Right, Tweezer, Golden Age, My Friend My Friend, Tweezer, No Quarter, Carini
EncoreA Life Beyond The Dream, Tweezer Reprise
Bustout Ledger likely returns vs long shots

Gap ≥ 50, ranked by likelihood of returning (recent activity, established, moderate gap), not by raw gap. The long shots at the bottom are the old most-overdue picks.

SongGapTimesLastRead
My Sweet One · tonight's pick632532026-01most likely
The Landlady522152025-04likely
If I Could59682025-04likely
Strange Design51682025-06likely
Sleeping Monkey58962025-04likely
Axilla751132024-08plausible
Uncle Pen · old overdue pick3282122017long shot
Highway to Hell648772009long shot
How the Oracle Reads the Tea the model in plain terms
  • Live data. phish.net v5 API, 977 songs across every 2024–2026 show, refreshed through 2026-07-11.
  • Recency-weighted rotation. Base likelihood is each song's rate across the last 40 non-Sphere shows.
  • 2-show cooldown + recency penalty. Only the last two shows are off the board; a gap-scaled penalty keeps just-played songs from ranking high. Tweezer stays coupled to its reprise.
  • Venue affinity. For Ruoff nights, play-rate over the venue's 11 modern shows adds to the score. Savannah debuts fall back to rotation.
  • 2025 calibration. The full 2025 corpus makes slot priors. Top-10 encores called 5 of 8 tour slots (trusted, tonight Bug), top-10 openers 1 of 4 (ignored). Piper added as a due 2025 Set 2 jam.
  • Bustout, most likely not most overdue. Gap ≥ 50 filtered, then ranked by return-likelihood: recent-era activity, 2024–25 presence, established song, moderate gap. A song gone 63 shows and played this January beats one dead since 1990.
  • Self-grading. Each forecast is scored against the real setlist, then folded back before the next repick. Running: 5 of 12 songs, 0 of 2 bustouts.

A forecast, not a spoiler. Every meter is a lean, not a lock.

The board, the simple version

Tonight Phish plays their third night in a row in Indiana. Here are our ten best guesses for songs, so you have plenty to pick from:

Bathtub Gin, 46 Days, Split Open and Melt, Rift, Stash, Piper, 2001, Simple, What's the Use?, and Bug for the ending.

We changed our wild-card guess. Before we picked the song they had NOT played in the longest time. Now we pick the one most likely to come back. That is My Sweet One, a song they played back in January.

★ You can play too! Scroll up to "Build Your Six" and pick your own songs, then see if you beat the robot.
✻   Sourced live from the phish.net v5 API · board rebuilt 2026-07-12 · a forecast for entertainment, not a leak   ✻