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Forecasting

Forecasts, models, and public scorecards

Each competition gets its own daily dashboard: match probabilities from our house model and the market side by side, standings, and a running scorecard of who has actually been right. Grades are published before results, never after.

NWSL

National Women’s Soccer League

2026 season, live: match forecasts, the championship race, and the model-versus-market scorecard.

In season · updated daily
Premier League

English Premier League

The 2026–27 campaign: match probabilities, the table, and Golden Boot tracking.

Season approaching
NFL

National Football League

Weekly win probabilities and spreads from the DfT game model, graded against the closing line.

2026 season ahead
World Cup 2026

The complete tournament archive

Every game, bracket, and forecast grade from the 2026 World Cup — the daily screen that started it all. Spain, champions.

Complete · preserved as an archive

How the scorecards work

Every forecast is stamped before kickoff and graded after the final whistle with a proper scoring rule (Brier score), alongside the betting market and public models. The point is not to beat the market every week — it is to show honestly how hard that is, and where a careful model earns its keep. The method essays live on the newsletter.