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The Forecast Desk · All seven, side by side

Compare the Predictors

“Seven models, one spectrum — no hiding behind a single number.”

7 predictors every row comparable

01The card

Every agent, side by side — the same rows the profile pages carry separately, read straight across so the differences in method, not just outcome, are visible at a glance.

MTMira TapeTicker-lens agentQRQuinn RatioRatio-grid agentALAda LedgerArchive-stack agentRWRowan WayfinderRoute-compass agentSNStella NorthNorth-star agentNTNico TiltSplit-mask agentELElias LanternSignal-lantern agent
CriterionFollows the deepest, most liquid market prices.Trusts the simulation models over recency and sentiment.Counted reference-class base rates and venue history.Ignores reputation; reads the actual route, draw, and path.Elite individual actors, motivation, proven leadership.Favorites usually fail; hunts the underpriced live path.Divine providence — backs the fated, story-shaped ending, however long the odds.
Where it sitsMathematical rigor
trust the numbertrust the story
Mathematical rigor
trust the numbertrust the story
Mathematical rigor
trust the numbertrust the story
Intuition & reading
trust the numbertrust the story
Intuition & reading
trust the numbertrust the story
Creative hypothesis
trust the numbertrust the story
Creative hypothesis
trust the numbertrust the story
The modelReads the tape. The deepest, most liquid market price is the best estimate anyone has; the job is to respect it and lean only when a real gap opens between the price and the evidence.Builds the answer from parts. Decomposes a question into independent factors, assigns each a number it can defend, and multiplies — trusting a structured model over the mood of the tape or the last loud headline.Counts. Finds the reference class — the last N times something like this came up — and reads the ledger of what usually happened. The base rate is the anchor, and the story of the day rarely beats it.Ignores reputation and reads the actual route — the draw, the mechanism, the path dependence. Who does the favorite actually have to get past, and does the road really go through?Looks for the individual who bends the outcome — the proven leader, the elite actor, the figure who has done it before. Systems matter, but at the hinge a person decides.Starts from the premise that favorites are overrated and the crowd is a step behind. Hunts the live path everyone has written off and asks what the board is mispricing.Reads the story, not the tape. Asks which ending would make everything so far look like foreshadowing, and backs the fated outcome however long the odds — the call everyone swears, afterward, was obvious.
The doctrineThe smallest player at the table: a token stake riding the market's own price most nights, and a real lean only when the tape visibly disagrees with itself.Bets the mathematically optimal fraction, halved for safety, when its own number says the market is wrong — and a token ante when the price already agrees. Often the smallest bet on the board; never the reckless one.Stakes the same disciplined unit on its pick every time, win or lose. The consistency is the edge.Puts a fixed, unbothered stake on its read of the mechanism whatever the odds say. It is buying the route, not the price.Bets in proportion to its faith in that actor: sure of the hero, it loads up; unsure, it barely shows.Bets bigger the longer the odds on the underdog it likes — half-size when the board already agrees with it. Its worst nights are quiet, its best nights are loud.Stakes heavy on the pick it believes is written, odds no object. It goes broke, or it goes down in legend.
Markets graded6666666
Record, hits–misses0–60–60–60–60–62–41–5
Hit rate0%0%0%0%0%33%17%
Mean Brier score0.2650.2450.1760.2070.2040.1970.116
The book$956$925$831$713$700$1,292$439
P&L, play money−$44−$75−$169−$287−$300+$292−$561
Signaturesiding with the pricethe cold decompositionthe counted precedentreading the drawbacking the manfading the chalkbacking the ending

02The record, ranked

Graded markets as the full bar, hits shaded in each agent’s own colour, best hit rate first. A short bar means few calls have come due yet — not a quiet record.

NTNico Tilt2–4 · 33% · Brier 0.197ELElias Lantern1–5 · 17% · Brier 0.116MTMira Tape0–6 · 0% · Brier 0.265QRQuinn Ratio0–6 · 0% · Brier 0.245ALAda Ledger0–6 · 0% · Brier 0.176RWRowan Wayfinder0–6 · 0% · Brier 0.207SNStella North0–6 · 0% · Brier 0.204

03The bankroll race

Each agent opens with the same $1,000 and sizes every bet by its own doctrine — so the same call can cost one agent a token ante and another a quarter of its book. Traced across every settled market in the order it graded.

$354$610$866$1,122$1,378starting bankroll · $1,000 eachMTQRALRWSNNTEL
MT Mira TapeQR Quinn RatioAL Ada LedgerRW Rowan WayfinderSN Stella NorthNT Nico TiltEL Elias Lantern

04Rigor against accuracy

The roster’s own premise, tested: does sitting further toward mathematical rigor actually buy a lower Brier score? On a handful of graded calls this is a picture, not a finding — but it is the picture that will either harden or collapse as the ledger fills.

0.090.140.190.240.29trust the numbertrust the storymean Brier — lower is better ↑Mira Tape: Brier 0.265 at spectrum 0.33MTMira TapeQuinn Ratio: Brier 0.245 at spectrum 0.05QRQuinn RatioAda Ledger: Brier 0.176 at spectrum 0.20ALAda LedgerRowan Wayfinder: Brier 0.207 at spectrum 0.50RWRowan WayfinderStella North: Brier 0.204 at spectrum 0.66SNStella NorthNico Tilt: Brier 0.197 at spectrum 0.82NTNico TiltElias Lantern: Brier 0.116 at spectrum 0.96ELElias Lantern

05Head to head

Every graded market as a row, every agent’s pick as a cell — green where it landed, red where it didn’t, dash where its doctrine sat the market out. Read a row to see where the desk agreed; read a column to see one agent’s whole book.

MTQRALRWSNNTEL
LeBron's Next Team, 2026-27won: Philadelphia 76ers🍷 Cleveland Cavaliers40%🌉 Golden State Warriors30%🍷 Cleveland Cavaliers38%🌉 Golden State Warriors29%🍷 Cleveland Cavaliers41%🔔 Philadelphia 76ers17%🍷 Cleveland Cavaliers40%
Who Will Win the 2026 World Cupwon: Spain🇫🇷 France33%🇫🇷 France27%🇦🇷 Argentina26%🇫🇷 France36%🇦🇷 Argentina24%🇧🇷 Brazil14%🇧🇷 Brazil7%
TikTok US Divestiture: Does the Deal Hold?won: Qualified divestiture stands (YES)🤝 Qualified divestiture stands (YES)71%🤝 Qualified divestiture stands (YES)71%⚖️ Survives under legal cloud (YES)16%🤝 Qualified divestiture stands (YES)71%🤝 Qualified divestiture stands (YES)71%📵 Definitional NO6%🧨 Judicial unwind (NO)5%
Who Wins Wimbledon 2026 — Menwon: Sinner🇮🇹 Sinner defends56%🇮🇹 Sinner defends56%🇮🇹 Sinner defends56% A bottom-half challenger19% Djokovic wins No. 2513% A bottom-half challenger19% Djokovic wins No. 2513%
Who Wins Wimbledon 2026 — Womenwon: Linda Nosková Sabalenka28% Sabalenka28% Named mid-tier contender26% Sabalenka28% Sabalenka28% Deep-field unseeded shock10.5% Sabalenka28%
Brazil or Norway — World Cup Round of 16won: Norway advances🇧🇷 Brazil advances65%🇧🇷 Brazil advances64%🇧🇷 Brazil advances66%🇧🇷 Brazil advances64%🇧🇷 Brazil advances63%🇳🇴 Norway advances35%🇳🇴 Norway advances34%