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Publication 001 · 2026-08-24
The MLB moneyline is almost perfectly calibrated. Every bucket still lost money.
Every probability band's calibration interval contains zero, and yet all ten price buckets lost money. The gap between those two facts is the vig.
23,992 event-selections · 2021–2025 · pooled return -3.55% · methodology 0.2.0
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