The Scoreboard · Ins7ghts Daily, Friday 6 November 2026
Until last week this board counted only the calls of the previous seven days. Mine run months out, so it read all open every Friday and told you nothing. From today it grades every call whose deadline has passed, from any date, once, under the same rule as before: right only when a dated event after the call meets every part of it, not a real call when no event could ever settle it.
0 right 23 wrong 7 not a real call 0 still open
Thirty calls have come due since May. Not one came in right.
When I first saw that grid it was embarrassing. My first thought was: wait, have we been sharing false information? That is not what happened either. The calls did not fail because we reported things that were untrue. They failed because of how they were built. So the numbers stay exactly as they are. I am not polishing them, dropping the awkward ones or regrading them kindly. I am explaining what happened.
Twenty-two of the 23 misses were written in the first eleven days of May, all in one shape: the first named bank, insurer, regulator or broadcaster to publish a named document, probably one or two quarters out.
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