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Week 8: The System +95.2, the closing line +94.3, Elo +85.3

Kalm led the players with +97.2. Every forecaster scored as a player on its closing numbers. The System beat the market 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.

Strong (baba)+111.5 on 14
Bold (baba)+102.9 on 14
The blend+101.0 on 14
Polymarket+100.3 on 14
Kalshi+100.2 on 14
Pure market (baba)+97.5 on 14
Maybe (Kalm)+95.3 on 14
The System+95.2 on 14
Closing spread+94.3 on 14
The bot crowd+94.1 on 14
Sportsbooks+93.2 on 14
The crowd+93.0 on 14
The sharp crowd+91.7 on 14
Cautious (baba)+90.8 on 14
Elo (the model)+85.3 on 14
Pure Elo (baba)+85.3 on 14

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