Start a club that actually does things.

You can take a peek through our masterdoc of forecasting club materials, which includes:

• detailed, out-of-the-box events, sessions, and programs

• templated emails, websites, posters, and more

• comprehensive guides on everything from event logistics to budgeting, funding, and sponsorships; from outreach to onboarding faculty advisors; from running an effective organizing team to internal long-term planning

• …and tons more. Take a peek here!

We also provide support 1-on-1 to forecasting clubs to give:

• mentorship from experienced club organizers

• access to the broader prediction market and forecasting network

• connections to potential sponsors

• whatever else you might need!

Sorta like what you’d imagine a basketball team doing for basketball, or a debate team doing for debate, or a trivia bowl team for trivia… but for forecasting!

• mostly, practice — drills, training, working through examples, calibration, etc

• talks or lectures on a particular subtopic

• scrimmages/practice tournaments with other clubs

• competing the regional OPTIC tournaments

• working on projects within the forecasting community

• social events

Some examples of specific events:

• practice sessions (e.g. calibration training, weekly updating sessions for a Metaculus Quarterly Cup)

• forecasting workshops

• speaker events with experts in fields ranging from statistics to economics to biology to finance and more

• group trips (e.g. to Manifest or OPTIC)

• game nights & other events just for fun

• reading groups (e.g. book clubs on Superforecasting, The Signal and the Noise, Expert Political Judgement, etc)

We go into further depth on “why forecasting clubs” and “what do forecasting clubs look like” in the first section of our masterdoc for forecasting clubs.

Most of the resources we've built are publicly accessible here, but we also have a lot of support available if you reach out — focused mentorship, connections within the forecasting community (& to interested sponsors), and more! We’d love to chat & help you build your club.

No. All of the support we provide for forecasting clubs is free.

We’re a nonprofit, funded by philanthropists and sponsors who love forecasting almost as much as we do — and they support us so that we can support you.

(Note that you might separately need funding for general club expenses, like food for events or books for reading groups — check the section on “funding” in the masterdoc for thorough and practical guides.)