[llamataboot]

UNU seems to get their press releases on here a lot. As far as I can see there's not much "AI" involved, just a UI over the "wisdom of crowds" method of making predictions. In this case, the Cubs were heavily favored all season to win the World Series, had arguably one of the best GMs and managers in baseball, and a raft of all-star players. Goat aside, it was fairly smart money to lean towards them from mid-season on.

Same thing with their Kentucky Derby prediction this year. The swarm literally decided the horses in the exact odds they were going off at (which makes sense since gambling odds by their very nature are "the wisdom of the crowd") and that's how they finished.

[wrsh07]

Agreed - predicting that the Cubs would win the world series isn't impressive - the majority of SI writers [4/7] did that at the beginning of the season: http://www.si.com/mlb/2016/03/31/playoff-picks-awards-picks-...

Correctly predicting who would advance in the post season is mostly luck.