“A less-than-brilliant Oscars for Nate Silver, who used his skills as a baseball statistics nerd to turn his politics blog, FiveThirtyEight.com, into the online hit of last year’s election. Silver predicted the presidential outcome with eerie precision, and gamely crunched the numbers for Sunday’s awards ceremony too, weighing such factors as release date, box office takings, genre, and which other awards a movie or actor has won this season. And so step forward Best Actor Mickey Rourke and Best Supporting Actress Taraji Henson, from Benjamin Button. Oh well.”

Well, looks like the only prediction news in the press these days is bad…even, though, as we all know, he should be getting praised for having failed to get them all right .