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

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.