PolymarketUncategorizedUpdated 6m ago

Will the Cleveland Guardians win the 2026 World Series?

As of Oct 3, 2026, 3:29 PM ET, Polymarket priced this market at 4.3% (down from 6.0% 24 hours earlier). It had $24.6K traded in the past 24 hours, $80.3K of order-book liquidity and a bid-ask spread of 1.5 pts. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as moderate.

Market probability
4.3%
−1.7 percentage points
over 24 hours6.0% → 4.3%
28 days until the event deadline
Deadline: October 31, 2026 at 7:55 PM ET

A repricing with partial backing — read the new probability with some caution.

The pricing has partial support: healthy trading volume and market depth, a tight spread.

How credible was the move?

Three separate questions — a move can be genuine while the latest price is still settling. Methodology →

Move validity

Is the move backed by real trading and depth?

Moderate

The pricing has partial support: healthy trading volume and market depth, a tight spread.

Consensus stability

Has the market settled at the new probability?

Forming

Movement has slowed (2.5 points over six hours) but the market has not fully settled.

Contract clarity

Will the rules resolve without ambiguity?

High

The resolution rules are relatively specific, with a named source and a defined deadline.

Recent trade activity$3.4K traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What this market actually measures

This market will resolve according to the team that wins the 2026 MLB World Series. If at any point it becomes impossible for a listed team to win the 2026 MLB World Series per the rules of MLB (e.g., they are eliminated in the playoffs), the corresponding market will resolve to “No”.

This summary shows the opening of the venue's official rules. ProbCast has not yet generated an independent plain-English interpretation for this contract — review the full rules before relying on it.

View full official resolution rules

This market will resolve according to the team that wins the 2026 MLB World Series. If at any point it becomes impossible for a listed team to win the 2026 MLB World Series per the rules of MLB (e.g., they are eliminated in the playoffs), the corresponding market will resolve to “No”. If the 2026 MLB season is cancelled, postponed after December 31, 2026 ET, or there is otherwise no winner declared within that timeframe, this market will resolve to “Other”. The primary resolution source will be official information from MLB (https://www.mlb.com/); however, a consensus of credible reporting may also be used.

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesOctober 31, 2026 at 7:55 PM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 3, 3:35 PM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: low · expected error ±17 pts.

Thin marketLegacy movement classifier: watch

What's happening

medium classifier confidence
Thin market

Thin book and/or wide spread. Small orders can move this price disproportionately, so any single print is noisy and easily overread.

  • Thin book and/or wide spread.

Read with caution —Read the latest price with caution; conditions make it an unreliable summary right now.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
32Low
Where the price path tends to go next350 observed
  • Choppy / mean-reverting91%
  • Illiquid / quiet3%
  • Stable consensus3%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~10h
PredictabilityStable

Secondary read: leaning toward Trading normally.

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

Market data

24h volume

$24.6K

Liquidity

$80.3K

Total volume

$1.2M

Category
Uncategorized
Venue
Polymarket
Open interest
—
Spread
1.5 pts
Best bid
3.6%
Best ask
5.1%
7-day range
3.8% – 7.2%
Resolves
Oct 31, 2026
Change (pts)1H-0.56H-2.524H-1.77D-1.7

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