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Stop Using Brier Score Wrong

Brier score hides the most important distinction in probability evaluation. Here's the decomposition every ML practitioner should know.

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Valeriy Manokhin
Apr 04, 2026
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My previous post post showed something uncomfortable. Platt scaling and isotonic regression — the two most common calibrators — degraded strong models across 30 datasets. Platt improved log-loss in only 49.8% of cases. A coin flip.

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