Pope Betting Odds: Bettors Lose Millions Predicting the New Pope as Polymarket Edge Fizzles Out
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schrieb am 9. Mai 2025, 15:45 zuletzt editiert von
The event throws into question the perceived heightened accuracy of betting markets like Poymarket over conventional polls.
Pope Betting Odds: Bettors Lose Millions Predicting the New Pope as Polymarket Edge Fizzles Out
The event throws into question the perceived heightened accuracy of betting markets like Poymarket over conventional polls.
CoinDesk (www.coindesk.com)
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The event throws into question the perceived heightened accuracy of betting markets like Poymarket over conventional polls.
Pope Betting Odds: Bettors Lose Millions Predicting the New Pope as Polymarket Edge Fizzles Out
The event throws into question the perceived heightened accuracy of betting markets like Poymarket over conventional polls.
CoinDesk (www.coindesk.com)
schrieb am 9. Mai 2025, 16:35 zuletzt editiert vonThe article doesn't really state what your short summary states.
The reason Polymarket bettors got the papal conclave result so wrong is that the event is extremely hard to predict, Domer, one of Polymarket’s top pseudonymous bettors, said on X.
“It's like walking into a store that doesn't communicate with the outside world,” he said. “Not even the participants themselves would probably know how to handicap it.”
Choosing a new pope isn't an open process, so there's very little information to go off of. Something like an election has a lot of public information, so those betting odds are more likely to represent the actual odds in the election.
I really don't think there's much to learn here, other than that choosing a new pope is chaotic and the process isn't very open.
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The article doesn't really state what your short summary states.
The reason Polymarket bettors got the papal conclave result so wrong is that the event is extremely hard to predict, Domer, one of Polymarket’s top pseudonymous bettors, said on X.
“It's like walking into a store that doesn't communicate with the outside world,” he said. “Not even the participants themselves would probably know how to handicap it.”
Choosing a new pope isn't an open process, so there's very little information to go off of. Something like an election has a lot of public information, so those betting odds are more likely to represent the actual odds in the election.
I really don't think there's much to learn here, other than that choosing a new pope is chaotic and the process isn't very open.
schrieb am 9. Mai 2025, 18:45 zuletzt editiert vonIn situations like this it may make sense to just bet on all the underdogs. The market is highly overconfident in its information, you think the market’s information is crap, so you just bet against the market by taking the underdogs.
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The event throws into question the perceived heightened accuracy of betting markets like Poymarket over conventional polls.
Pope Betting Odds: Bettors Lose Millions Predicting the New Pope as Polymarket Edge Fizzles Out
The event throws into question the perceived heightened accuracy of betting markets like Poymarket over conventional polls.
CoinDesk (www.coindesk.com)
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