Eyewall Markets Market Compendium
Chapter SPORTS · 18 open events

§ Category

Sports

Championships, MVPs, season-long outcomes, tournament progression.

§ Primer

Championships, MVPs, season-long outcomes, tournament progression.

Sports prediction markets fall into two buckets: single-event spot questions (who wins tonight's game, which team advances) and season-long markets (division winners, Super Bowl champions, league MVPs). Betfair leads on global sports liquidity; Kalshi and Polymarket list US-regulated equivalents; Manifold carries the long tail plus esports.

Canonical outcomes for season-long markets are typically the full list of eligible teams, which produces high-cardinality categorical events. The matcher uses per-league discriminators so an NBA championship market doesn't match an NFL one and vice versa.

Pitfalls: championship markets with different resolution criteria (trophy lift vs league acknowledgement), MVP markets that resolve on voting vs on statistical thresholds, and cross-sport aliases ("world series" meaning the MLB one vs a regional one). Storm groups sports markets under a single category here; future work may split by league.

§ Matcher threshold

§ Active events

§ Recently resolved

§ Top venues in this category