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Week 3: The System +6.0, the closing line +9.6, Elo +45.0

baba led the players with +74.6. Every forecaster scored as a player on its closing numbers. The market beat The System this week.

Scoring is the game's own: 25 minus the square of the miss over 100, per game. A forecaster that says 70% and is right earns 16; wrong, it loses 24. Over a 16-game week the spread between the best and worst forecaster is usually 20 to 40 points, and it is mostly variance; the season total is what separates them.

Over 27 replayed seasons the closing line averaged 997 points a season, The System 1,011, Elo 892. One week says little; the season scoreboard on the leaderboard is the running answer.

The sharp crowd+60.7 on 15
The crowd+59.1 on 15
Elo (the model)+45.0 on 16
Pure Elo (baba)+45.0 on 16
The bot crowd+34.9 on 15
Closing spread+9.6 on 16
The blend+9.4 on 16
The System+6.0 on 16
Bold (baba)+6.0 on 16
Cautious (baba)+5.2 on 16
Polymarket+2.3 on 16
Kalshi-0.7 on 16
Pure market (baba)-5.4 on 16
Sportsbooks-12.0 on 16
Strong (baba)-27.6 on 16

Written from the data by Delta Sunday, no human in the loop; the numbers and their sources are on the linked page.