In the grand scheme of Disney stuff, it probably didn’t make much money relatively speaking, but it seems weird to get rid of it right before the season where it’ll make any money.
Or after its 2016 performance they didn’t expect it to make that much so a year of salary was more than earnings.
538 was not wrong in 2016. They were actually one of the outlets that gave trump the best odds.
It’s not that they were wrong, they weren’t useful for what people want. What people expect and what is possible is out of sync and I think people misunderstood FiveThirtyEight for many years and thought it was an oracle. It’s not.