PREDICTWIRE · LIVEGavin Newsom win the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination: 28% ▲ 0.4Atletico Madrid win the 2025–26 Champions League: 12% ▼ 0.2the San Antonio Spurs win the 2026 NBA Finals: 15% ▲ 0.1Iran x Israel/US conflict ends by April 7: 87% ▲ 0.8Gavin Newsom win the 2028 US Presidential Election: 17%Netherlands win the 2026 FIFA World Cup: 3% ▼ 0.1the Colorado Avalanche win the 2026 NHL Stanley Cup: 23% ▲ 1.1J.D. Vance win the 2028 Republican presidential nomination: 39% ▲ 0.8the U.S. invade Iran before 2027: 30% ▼ 2.0PREDICTWIRE · LIVEGavin Newsom win the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination: 28% ▲ 0.4Atletico Madrid win the 2025–26 Champions League: 12% ▼ 0.2the San Antonio Spurs win the 2026 NBA Finals: 15% ▲ 0.1Iran x Israel/US conflict ends by April 7: 87% ▲ 0.8Gavin Newsom win the 2028 US Presidential Election: 17%Netherlands win the 2026 FIFA World Cup: 3% ▼ 0.1the Colorado Avalanche win the 2026 NHL Stanley Cup: 23% ▲ 1.1J.D. Vance win the 2028 Republican presidential nomination: 39% ▲ 0.8the U.S. invade Iran before 2027: 30% ▼ 2.0

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  • Case Study: Will Kamala Harris win the 2024 US Presidential Election? — How Polymarket’s Price Moved

    Resolved case study · Iconic Markets

    Will Kamala Harris win the 2024 US Presidential Election?

    Resolved No at 43.5% after $1037.0M in trading volume.
    Brier score 0.1892. Other category.

    What is this?
    A resolved Polymarket contract from our archive. We replay the Wire Score against the price at close and at the midpoint, then show what Wire would have called and how that call paid off.

    The bottom line
    The market got directionally correct but paid a non-trivial price for uncertainty.

    Receipt · Wire at close

    What Wire called vs. what happened

    CALIBRATED
    Wire called the price CALIBRATED at close (signal 48). The market resolved NO.
    Closing price
    42.1%
    market at resolution

    Wire point
    41.2%
    calibrated read

    Wire Signal
    48
    CALIBRATED

    Outcome
    No
    Brier 0.1892

    Price trajectory

    How the market moved over 306 snapshots

    Five checkpoints across the contract’s life. Full daily-snapshot range: 0.7–53.9%.

    Checkpoint Date Yes price
    Start Jan 06, 2024 3.1%
    25% in Mar 22, 2024 1.6%
    Halfway Jun 06, 2024 1.8%
    75% in Aug 21, 2024 48.1%
    Close Nov 06, 2024 42.1%
    At close

    Wire Score detail

    Closing market price 42.1%
    Wire Score point 41.2%
    Confidence band (C) 30.4–52.0%
    Grade C
    Wire Signal 48 · CALIBRATED
    Actual outcome No
    Brier score 0.1892
    Mid-life snapshot · Jun 07, 2024

    What Wire would have said halfway through

    Not a live forecast — a backward-looking illustration of what the Wire Score would have produced at this midpoint, using only information available then.

    Market price 1.5%
    Wire Score point 2.0%
    Confidence band (A) 1.2–2.8%
    Grade A
    Wire Signal 52 · CALIBRATED
    Wire’s side YES
    $100 on Wire’s side → realized P&L $-100
    Archive context

    What the archive says about markets like this

    This market is one of 1,914 resolved binary contracts in the PredictWire Calibration Archive. A Polymarket contract with lifetime volume of $1037.0M sits in the top tier of archive volume — very liquid markets have a volume-weighted Brier of 0.0665 across the archive, compared to 0.0865 for the full set. Liquidity matters for calibration.

    The Wire Score framework uses every (price, outcome) pair in the archive to calibrate raw prices into probabilities and to assign a letter grade based on confidence-band width. v2 fits a separate calibration curve per category (politics, sports, crypto, geopolitics, other) and falls back to a global curve when a category is too thin. Across all 194,111 archive snapshots, Wire Score v2 improves Brier by +4.86% over raw prices (and +2.85% over v1) while remaining monotone across grades.

    About this page. Written and reviewed by The PredictWire Research Team under our Editorial Standards. Price data from Polymarket’s public CLOB; outcome data from Polymarket’s gamma-api. Methodology: /wire-score/. Last reviewed April 21, 2026. Corrections: corrections@predictwire.io.

  • Case Study: Will Donald Trump win the 2024 US Presidential Election? — How Polymarket’s Price Moved

    Resolved case study · Iconic Markets

    Will Donald Trump win the 2024 US Presidential Election?

    Resolved Yes at 58.6% after $1531.5M in trading volume.
    Brier score 0.1718. Other category.

    What is this?
    A resolved Polymarket contract from our archive. We replay the Wire Score against the price at close and at the midpoint, then show what Wire would have called and how that call paid off.

    The bottom line
    The market got directionally correct but paid a non-trivial price for uncertainty.

    Receipt · Wire at close

    What Wire called vs. what happened

    ✗ MISS
    Wire LEAN NO at close (signal 41). The market resolved YES. Direction wrong.
    Closing price
    58.0%
    market at resolution

    Wire point
    52.5%
    calibrated read

    Wire Signal
    41
    LEAN NO

    Outcome
    Yes
    Brier 0.1718

    Price trajectory

    How the market moved over 307 snapshots

    Five checkpoints across the contract’s life. Full daily-snapshot range: 40.5–70.5%.

    Checkpoint Date Yes price
    Start Jan 05, 2024 50.0%
    25% in Mar 21, 2024 51.5%
    Halfway Jun 06, 2024 55.5%
    75% in Aug 21, 2024 50.2%
    Close Nov 06, 2024 58.0%
    At close

    Wire Score detail

    Closing market price 58.0%
    Wire Score point 52.5%
    Confidence band (C) 41.5–63.4%
    Grade C
    Wire Signal 41 · LEAN NO
    Actual outcome Yes
    Brier score 0.1718
    Mid-life snapshot · Jun 06, 2024

    What Wire would have said halfway through

    Not a live forecast — a backward-looking illustration of what the Wire Score would have produced at this midpoint, using only information available then.

    Market price 55.5%
    Wire Score point 51.6%
    Confidence band (C) 44.5–58.6%
    Grade C
    Wire Signal 43 · LEAN NO
    Wire’s side NO
    $100 on Wire’s side → realized P&L $-100
    Archive context

    What the archive says about markets like this

    This market is one of 1,914 resolved binary contracts in the PredictWire Calibration Archive. A Polymarket contract with lifetime volume of $1531.5M sits in the top tier of archive volume — very liquid markets have a volume-weighted Brier of 0.0665 across the archive, compared to 0.0865 for the full set. Liquidity matters for calibration.

    The Wire Score framework uses every (price, outcome) pair in the archive to calibrate raw prices into probabilities and to assign a letter grade based on confidence-band width. v2 fits a separate calibration curve per category (politics, sports, crypto, geopolitics, other) and falls back to a global curve when a category is too thin. Across all 194,111 archive snapshots, Wire Score v2 improves Brier by +4.86% over raw prices (and +2.85% over v1) while remaining monotone across grades.

    About this page. Written and reviewed by The PredictWire Research Team under our Editorial Standards. Price data from Polymarket’s public CLOB; outcome data from Polymarket’s gamma-api. Methodology: /wire-score/. Last reviewed April 21, 2026. Corrections: corrections@predictwire.io.

  • Case Study: Will Donald Trump win the popular vote in the 2024 Presidential Election? — How Polymarket’s Price Moved

    Resolved case study · The Market Got It Wrong

    Will Donald Trump win the popular vote in the 2024 Presidential Election?

    Resolved Yes at 27.4% after $119.9M in trading volume.
    Brier score 0.5271. Other category.

    What is this?
    A resolved Polymarket contract from our archive. We replay the Wire Score against the price at close and at the midpoint, then show what Wire would have called and how that call paid off.

    The bottom line
    A market miss. Polymarket priced this wrong; the outcome resolved Yes.

    Receipt · Wire at close

    What Wire called vs. what happened

    CALIBRATED
    Wire called the price CALIBRATED at close (signal 51). The market resolved YES.
    Closing price
    99.7%
    market at resolution

    Wire point
    100.0%
    calibrated read

    Wire Signal
    51
    CALIBRATED

    Outcome
    Yes
    Brier 0.5271

    Price trajectory

    How the market moved over 307 snapshots

    Five checkpoints across the contract’s life. Full daily-snapshot range: 21.5–100.0%.

    Checkpoint Date Yes price
    Start Jan 10, 2024 50.0%
    25% in Mar 26, 2024 32.5%
    Halfway Jun 11, 2024 33.5%
    75% in Aug 26, 2024 25.5%
    Close Nov 11, 2024 99.7%
    At close

    Wire Score detail

    Closing market price 99.7%
    Wire Score point 100.0%
    Confidence band (A) 100.0–100.0%
    Grade A
    Wire Signal 51 · CALIBRATED
    Actual outcome Yes
    Brier score 0.5271
    Mid-life snapshot · Jun 11, 2024

    What Wire would have said halfway through

    Not a live forecast — a backward-looking illustration of what the Wire Score would have produced at this midpoint, using only information available then.

    Market price 33.5%
    Wire Score point 37.3%
    Confidence band (C) 30.5–44.2%
    Grade C
    Wire Signal 56 · LEAN YES
    Wire’s side YES
    $100 on Wire’s side → realized P&L +$199
    Archive context

    What the archive says about markets like this

    This market is one of 1,914 resolved binary contracts in the PredictWire Calibration Archive. A Polymarket contract with lifetime volume of $119.9M sits in the top tier of archive volume — very liquid markets have a volume-weighted Brier of 0.0665 across the archive, compared to 0.0865 for the full set. Liquidity matters for calibration.

    The Wire Score framework uses every (price, outcome) pair in the archive to calibrate raw prices into probabilities and to assign a letter grade based on confidence-band width. v2 fits a separate calibration curve per category (politics, sports, crypto, geopolitics, other) and falls back to a global curve when a category is too thin. Across all 194,111 archive snapshots, Wire Score v2 improves Brier by +4.86% over raw prices (and +2.85% over v1) while remaining monotone across grades.

    About this page. Written and reviewed by The PredictWire Research Team under our Editorial Standards. Price data from Polymarket’s public CLOB; outcome data from Polymarket’s gamma-api. Methodology: /wire-score/. Last reviewed April 21, 2026. Corrections: corrections@predictwire.io.

  • Case Study: Kamala Harris wins the popular vote? — How Polymarket’s Price Moved

    Resolved case study · The Market Got It Wrong

    Kamala Harris wins the popular vote?

    Resolved No at 72.7% after $163.8M in trading volume.
    Brier score 0.5278. Other category.

    What is this?
    A resolved Polymarket contract from our archive. We replay the Wire Score against the price at close and at the midpoint, then show what Wire would have called and how that call paid off.

    The bottom line
    A market miss. Polymarket priced this wrong; the outcome resolved No.

    Receipt · Wire at close

    What Wire called vs. what happened

    CALIBRATED
    Wire called the price CALIBRATED at close (signal 50). The market resolved NO.
    Closing price
    0.1%
    market at resolution

    Wire point
    0.1%
    calibrated read

    Wire Signal
    50
    CALIBRATED

    Outcome
    No
    Brier 0.5278

    Price trajectory

    How the market moved over 308 snapshots

    Five checkpoints across the contract’s life. Full daily-snapshot range: 0.1–77.4%.

    Checkpoint Date Yes price
    Start Jan 10, 2024 50.0%
    25% in Mar 26, 2024 2.5%
    Halfway Jun 11, 2024 1.8%
    75% in Aug 27, 2024 74.1%
    Close Nov 12, 2024 0.1%
    At close

    Wire Score detail

    Closing market price 0.1%
    Wire Score point 0.1%
    Confidence band (A) 0.0–0.4%
    Grade A
    Wire Signal 50 · CALIBRATED
    Actual outcome No
    Brier score 0.5278
    Mid-life snapshot · Jun 12, 2024

    What Wire would have said halfway through

    Not a live forecast — a backward-looking illustration of what the Wire Score would have produced at this midpoint, using only information available then.

    Market price 1.8%
    Wire Score point 2.3%
    Confidence band (A) 1.5–3.2%
    Grade A
    Wire Signal 52 · CALIBRATED
    Wire’s side YES
    $100 on Wire’s side → realized P&L $-100
    Archive context

    What the archive says about markets like this

    This market is one of 1,914 resolved binary contracts in the PredictWire Calibration Archive. A Polymarket contract with lifetime volume of $163.8M sits in the top tier of archive volume — very liquid markets have a volume-weighted Brier of 0.0665 across the archive, compared to 0.0865 for the full set. Liquidity matters for calibration.

    The Wire Score framework uses every (price, outcome) pair in the archive to calibrate raw prices into probabilities and to assign a letter grade based on confidence-band width. v2 fits a separate calibration curve per category (politics, sports, crypto, geopolitics, other) and falls back to a global curve when a category is too thin. Across all 194,111 archive snapshots, Wire Score v2 improves Brier by +4.86% over raw prices (and +2.85% over v1) while remaining monotone across grades.

    About this page. Written and reviewed by The PredictWire Research Team under our Editorial Standards. Price data from Polymarket’s public CLOB; outcome data from Polymarket’s gamma-api. Methodology: /wire-score/. Last reviewed April 21, 2026. Corrections: corrections@predictwire.io.

  • Case Study: Khamenei out as Supreme Leader of Iran by February 28? — How Polymarket’s Price Moved

    Resolved case study · The Market Got It Wrong

    Khamenei out as Supreme Leader of Iran by February 28?

    Resolved Yes at 1.6% after $131.1M in trading volume.
    Brier score 0.9692. Other category.

    What is this?
    A resolved Polymarket contract from our archive. We replay the Wire Score against the price at close and at the midpoint, then show what Wire would have called and how that call paid off.

    The bottom line
    A market miss. Polymarket priced this wrong; the outcome resolved Yes.

    Receipt · Wire at close

    What Wire called vs. what happened

    CALIBRATED
    Wire called the price CALIBRATED at close (signal 50). The market resolved YES.
    Closing price
    99.9%
    market at resolution

    Wire point
    100.0%
    calibrated read

    Wire Signal
    50
    CALIBRATED

    Outcome
    Yes
    Brier 0.9692

    Price trajectory

    How the market moved over 49 snapshots

    Five checkpoints across the contract’s life. Full daily-snapshot range: 1.1–99.9%.

    Checkpoint Date Yes price
    Start Jan 15, 2026 33.5%
    25% in Jan 27, 2026 16.5%
    Halfway Feb 08, 2026 6.5%
    75% in Feb 20, 2026 5.2%
    Close Mar 04, 2026 99.9%
    At close

    Wire Score detail

    Closing market price 99.9%
    Wire Score point 100.0%
    Confidence band (A) 100.0–100.0%
    Grade A
    Wire Signal 50 · CALIBRATED
    Actual outcome Yes
    Brier score 0.9692
    Mid-life snapshot · Feb 08, 2026

    What Wire would have said halfway through

    Not a live forecast — a backward-looking illustration of what the Wire Score would have produced at this midpoint, using only information available then.

    Market price 6.5%
    Wire Score point 9.9%
    Confidence band (B) 5.6–14.2%
    Grade B
    Wire Signal 58 · LEAN YES
    Wire’s side YES
    $100 on Wire’s side → realized P&L +$1438
    Archive context

    What the archive says about markets like this

    This market is one of 1,914 resolved binary contracts in the PredictWire Calibration Archive. A Polymarket contract with lifetime volume of $131.1M sits in the top tier of archive volume — very liquid markets have a volume-weighted Brier of 0.0665 across the archive, compared to 0.0865 for the full set. Liquidity matters for calibration.

    The Wire Score framework uses every (price, outcome) pair in the archive to calibrate raw prices into probabilities and to assign a letter grade based on confidence-band width. v2 fits a separate calibration curve per category (politics, sports, crypto, geopolitics, other) and falls back to a global curve when a category is too thin. Across all 194,111 archive snapshots, Wire Score v2 improves Brier by +4.86% over raw prices (and +2.85% over v1) while remaining monotone across grades.

    About this page. Written and reviewed by The PredictWire Research Team under our Editorial Standards. Price data from Polymarket’s public CLOB; outcome data from Polymarket’s gamma-api. Methodology: /wire-score/. Last reviewed April 21, 2026. Corrections: corrections@predictwire.io.

  • Case Study: US x Iran ceasefire by April 7? — How Polymarket’s Price Moved

    Resolved case study · The Market Got It Wrong

    US x Iran ceasefire by April 7?

    Resolved Yes at 10.5% after $173.7M in trading volume.
    Brier score 0.8010. Other category.

    What is this?
    A resolved Polymarket contract from our archive. We replay the Wire Score against the price at close and at the midpoint, then show what Wire would have called and how that call paid off.

    The bottom line
    A market miss. Polymarket priced this wrong; the outcome resolved Yes.

    Receipt · Wire at close

    What Wire called vs. what happened

    CALIBRATED
    Wire called the price CALIBRATED at close (signal 52). The market resolved YES.
    Closing price
    99.5%
    market at resolution

    Wire point
    100.0%
    calibrated read

    Wire Signal
    52
    CALIBRATED

    Outcome
    Yes
    Brier 0.8010

    Price trajectory

    How the market moved over 6 snapshots

    Five checkpoints across the contract’s life. Full daily-snapshot range: 10.5–99.5%.

    Checkpoint Date Yes price
    Start Mar 25, 2026 32.5%
    25% in Mar 26, 2026 26.0%
    Halfway Mar 27, 2026 21.5%
    75% in Mar 28, 2026 12.0%
    Close Apr 09, 2026 99.5%
    At close

    Wire Score detail

    Closing market price 99.5%
    Wire Score point 100.0%
    Confidence band (A) 100.0–100.0%
    Grade A
    Wire Signal 52 · CALIBRATED
    Actual outcome Yes
    Brier score 0.8010
    Archive context

    What the archive says about markets like this

    This market is one of 1,914 resolved binary contracts in the PredictWire Calibration Archive. A Polymarket contract with lifetime volume of $173.7M sits in the top tier of archive volume — very liquid markets have a volume-weighted Brier of 0.0665 across the archive, compared to 0.0865 for the full set. Liquidity matters for calibration.

    The Wire Score framework uses every (price, outcome) pair in the archive to calibrate raw prices into probabilities and to assign a letter grade based on confidence-band width. v2 fits a separate calibration curve per category (politics, sports, crypto, geopolitics, other) and falls back to a global curve when a category is too thin. Across all 194,111 archive snapshots, Wire Score v2 improves Brier by +4.86% over raw prices (and +2.85% over v1) while remaining monotone across grades.

    About this page. Written and reviewed by The PredictWire Research Team under our Editorial Standards. Price data from Polymarket’s public CLOB; outcome data from Polymarket’s gamma-api. Methodology: /wire-score/. Last reviewed April 21, 2026. Corrections: corrections@predictwire.io.

  • Case Study: Will Zohran Mamdani win the 2025 NYC mayoral election? — How Polymarket’s Price Moved

    Resolved case study · The Market Got It Right

    Will Zohran Mamdani win the 2025 NYC mayoral election?

    Resolved Yes at 91.0% after $143.3M in trading volume.
    Brier score 0.0082. Other category.

    What is this?
    A resolved Polymarket contract from our archive. We replay the Wire Score against the price at close and at the midpoint, then show what Wire would have called and how that call paid off.

    The bottom line
    A textbook case of the market being right from the start.

    Receipt · Wire at close

    What Wire called vs. what happened

    CALIBRATED
    Wire called the price CALIBRATED at close (signal 53). The market resolved YES.
    Closing price
    95.8%
    market at resolution

    Wire point
    97.0%
    calibrated read

    Wire Signal
    53
    CALIBRATED

    Outcome
    Yes
    Brier 0.0082

    Price trajectory

    How the market moved over 197 snapshots

    Five checkpoints across the contract’s life. Full daily-snapshot range: 3.5–95.8%.

    Checkpoint Date Yes price
    Start Apr 23, 2025 9.5%
    25% in Jun 11, 2025 23.2%
    Halfway Jul 30, 2025 76.3%
    75% in Sep 17, 2025 84.2%
    Close Nov 05, 2025 95.8%
    At close

    Wire Score detail

    Closing market price 95.8%
    Wire Score point 97.0%
    Confidence band (B) 93.3–100.0%
    Grade B
    Wire Signal 53 · CALIBRATED
    Actual outcome Yes
    Brier score 0.0082
    Mid-life snapshot · Jul 30, 2025

    What Wire would have said halfway through

    Not a live forecast — a backward-looking illustration of what the Wire Score would have produced at this midpoint, using only information available then.

    Market price 76.3%
    Wire Score point 59.8%
    Confidence band (C) 52.9–66.7%
    Grade C
    Wire Signal 25 · NO VALUE
    Wire’s side NO
    $100 on Wire’s side → realized P&L $-100
    Archive context

    What the archive says about markets like this

    This market is one of 1,914 resolved binary contracts in the PredictWire Calibration Archive. A Polymarket contract with lifetime volume of $143.3M sits in the top tier of archive volume — very liquid markets have a volume-weighted Brier of 0.0665 across the archive, compared to 0.0865 for the full set. Liquidity matters for calibration.

    The Wire Score framework uses every (price, outcome) pair in the archive to calibrate raw prices into probabilities and to assign a letter grade based on confidence-band width. v2 fits a separate calibration curve per category (politics, sports, crypto, geopolitics, other) and falls back to a global curve when a category is too thin. Across all 194,111 archive snapshots, Wire Score v2 improves Brier by +4.86% over raw prices (and +2.85% over v1) while remaining monotone across grades.

    About this page. Written and reviewed by The PredictWire Research Team under our Editorial Standards. Price data from Polymarket’s public CLOB; outcome data from Polymarket’s gamma-api. Methodology: /wire-score/. Last reviewed April 21, 2026. Corrections: corrections@predictwire.io.

  • Case Study: US forces enter Iran by April 30? — How Polymarket’s Price Moved

    Resolved case study · The Market Got It Right

    US forces enter Iran by April 30?

    Resolved Yes at 100.0% after $269.0M in trading volume.
    Brier score 0.0000. Other category.

    What is this?
    A resolved Polymarket contract from our archive. We replay the Wire Score against the price at close and at the midpoint, then show what Wire would have called and how that call paid off.

    The bottom line
    A textbook case of the market being right from the start.

    Receipt · Wire at close

    What Wire called vs. what happened

    CALIBRATED
    Wire called the price CALIBRATED at close (signal 50). The market resolved YES.
    Closing price
    100.0%
    market at resolution

    Wire point
    100.0%
    calibrated read

    Wire Signal
    50
    CALIBRATED

    Outcome
    Yes
    Brier 0.0000

    Price trajectory

    How the market moved over 11 snapshots

    Five checkpoints across the contract’s life. Full daily-snapshot range: 45.5–100.0%.

    Checkpoint Date Yes price
    Start Mar 20, 2026 54.5%
    25% in Mar 22, 2026 56.5%
    Halfway Mar 25, 2026 49.5%
    75% in Mar 27, 2026 61.5%
    Close Apr 09, 2026 100.0%
    At close

    Wire Score detail

    Closing market price 100.0%
    Wire Score point 100.0%
    Confidence band (A) 100.0–100.0%
    Grade A
    Wire Signal 50 · CALIBRATED
    Actual outcome Yes
    Brier score 0.0000
    Mid-life snapshot · Mar 25, 2026

    What Wire would have said halfway through

    Not a live forecast — a backward-looking illustration of what the Wire Score would have produced at this midpoint, using only information available then.

    Market price 49.5%
    Wire Score point 49.1%
    Confidence band (C) 38.9–59.4%
    Grade C
    Wire Signal 49 · CALIBRATED
    Wire’s side NO
    $100 on Wire’s side → realized P&L $-100
    Archive context

    What the archive says about markets like this

    This market is one of 1,914 resolved binary contracts in the PredictWire Calibration Archive. A Polymarket contract with lifetime volume of $269.0M sits in the top tier of archive volume — very liquid markets have a volume-weighted Brier of 0.0665 across the archive, compared to 0.0865 for the full set. Liquidity matters for calibration.

    The Wire Score framework uses every (price, outcome) pair in the archive to calibrate raw prices into probabilities and to assign a letter grade based on confidence-band width. v2 fits a separate calibration curve per category (politics, sports, crypto, geopolitics, other) and falls back to a global curve when a category is too thin. Across all 194,111 archive snapshots, Wire Score v2 improves Brier by +4.86% over raw prices (and +2.85% over v1) while remaining monotone across grades.

    About this page. Written and reviewed by The PredictWire Research Team under our Editorial Standards. Price data from Polymarket’s public CLOB; outcome data from Polymarket’s gamma-api. Methodology: /wire-score/. Last reviewed April 21, 2026. Corrections: corrections@predictwire.io.

  • Case Study: TikTok banned in the US before May 2025? — How Polymarket’s Price Moved

    Resolved case study · The Market Got It Right

    TikTok banned in the US before May 2025?

    Resolved Yes at 99.6% after $119.7M in trading volume.
    Brier score 0.0000. Other category.

    What is this?
    A resolved Polymarket contract from our archive. We replay the Wire Score against the price at close and at the midpoint, then show what Wire would have called and how that call paid off.

    The bottom line
    A textbook case of the market being right from the start.

    Receipt · Wire at close

    What Wire called vs. what happened

    CALIBRATED
    Wire called the price CALIBRATED at close (signal 51). The market resolved YES.
    Closing price
    99.6%
    market at resolution

    Wire point
    100.0%
    calibrated read

    Wire Signal
    51
    CALIBRATED

    Outcome
    Yes
    Brier 0.0000

    Price trajectory

    How the market moved over 126 snapshots

    Five checkpoints across the contract’s life. Full daily-snapshot range: 12.5–99.6%.

    Checkpoint Date Yes price
    Start Sep 19, 2024 29.5%
    25% in Oct 20, 2024 21.5%
    Halfway Nov 20, 2024 15.5%
    75% in Dec 21, 2024 36.5%
    Close Jan 22, 2025 99.6%
    At close

    Wire Score detail

    Closing market price 99.6%
    Wire Score point 100.0%
    Confidence band (A) 100.0–100.0%
    Grade A
    Wire Signal 51 · CALIBRATED
    Actual outcome Yes
    Brier score 0.0000
    Mid-life snapshot · Nov 21, 2024

    What Wire would have said halfway through

    Not a live forecast — a backward-looking illustration of what the Wire Score would have produced at this midpoint, using only information available then.

    Market price 19.0%
    Wire Score point 24.3%
    Confidence band (C) 17.9–30.6%
    Grade C
    Wire Signal 59 · LEAN YES
    Wire’s side YES
    $100 on Wire’s side → realized P&L +$426
    Archive context

    What the archive says about markets like this

    This market is one of 1,914 resolved binary contracts in the PredictWire Calibration Archive. A Polymarket contract with lifetime volume of $119.7M sits in the top tier of archive volume — very liquid markets have a volume-weighted Brier of 0.0665 across the archive, compared to 0.0865 for the full set. Liquidity matters for calibration.

    The Wire Score framework uses every (price, outcome) pair in the archive to calibrate raw prices into probabilities and to assign a letter grade based on confidence-band width. v2 fits a separate calibration curve per category (politics, sports, crypto, geopolitics, other) and falls back to a global curve when a category is too thin. Across all 194,111 archive snapshots, Wire Score v2 improves Brier by +4.86% over raw prices (and +2.85% over v1) while remaining monotone across grades.

    About this page. Written and reviewed by The PredictWire Research Team under our Editorial Standards. Price data from Polymarket’s public CLOB; outcome data from Polymarket’s gamma-api. Methodology: /wire-score/. Last reviewed April 21, 2026. Corrections: corrections@predictwire.io.

  • Case Study: Will Donald Trump be inaugurated? — How Polymarket’s Price Moved

    Resolved case study · The Market Got It Right

    Will Donald Trump be inaugurated?

    Resolved Yes at 99.2% after $400.4M in trading volume.
    Brier score 0.0001. Other category.

    What is this?
    A resolved Polymarket contract from our archive. We replay the Wire Score against the price at close and at the midpoint, then show what Wire would have called and how that call paid off.

    The bottom line
    A textbook case of the market being right from the start.

    Receipt · Wire at close

    What Wire called vs. what happened

    CALIBRATED
    Wire called the price CALIBRATED at close (signal 52). The market resolved YES.
    Closing price
    99.2%
    market at resolution

    Wire point
    100.0%
    calibrated read

    Wire Signal
    52
    CALIBRATED

    Outcome
    Yes
    Brier 0.0001

    Price trajectory

    How the market moved over 80 snapshots

    Five checkpoints across the contract’s life. Full daily-snapshot range: 53.8–99.5%.

    Checkpoint Date Yes price
    Start Nov 02, 2024 57.5%
    25% in Nov 21, 2024 95.0%
    Halfway Dec 11, 2024 96.2%
    75% in Dec 31, 2024 98.0%
    Close Jan 20, 2025 99.2%
    At close

    Wire Score detail

    Closing market price 99.2%
    Wire Score point 100.0%
    Confidence band (A) 100.0–100.0%
    Grade A
    Wire Signal 52 · CALIBRATED
    Actual outcome Yes
    Brier score 0.0001
    Mid-life snapshot · Dec 12, 2024

    What Wire would have said halfway through

    Not a live forecast — a backward-looking illustration of what the Wire Score would have produced at this midpoint, using only information available then.

    Market price 95.8%
    Wire Score point 97.0%
    Confidence band (A) 94.5–99.6%
    Grade A
    Wire Signal 54 · CALIBRATED
    Wire’s side YES
    $100 on Wire’s side → realized P&L +$4
    Archive context

    What the archive says about markets like this

    This market is one of 1,914 resolved binary contracts in the PredictWire Calibration Archive. A Polymarket contract with lifetime volume of $400.4M sits in the top tier of archive volume — very liquid markets have a volume-weighted Brier of 0.0665 across the archive, compared to 0.0865 for the full set. Liquidity matters for calibration.

    The Wire Score framework uses every (price, outcome) pair in the archive to calibrate raw prices into probabilities and to assign a letter grade based on confidence-band width. v2 fits a separate calibration curve per category (politics, sports, crypto, geopolitics, other) and falls back to a global curve when a category is too thin. Across all 194,111 archive snapshots, Wire Score v2 improves Brier by +4.86% over raw prices (and +2.85% over v1) while remaining monotone across grades.

    About this page. Written and reviewed by The PredictWire Research Team under our Editorial Standards. Price data from Polymarket’s public CLOB; outcome data from Polymarket’s gamma-api. Methodology: /wire-score/. Last reviewed April 21, 2026. Corrections: corrections@predictwire.io.