> In any race where Silver didn't make a pick — again, he isn't playing the pick-every-contest game — Diggler's numbers treat the non-prediction as a wrong prediction. So Silver's accuracy rate through May 7, according to Diggler, was just 55 percent, while his own was 89 percent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/12/so...
So the comparison counts non-predictions by Silver makes your statement correct.
> even without a fancy statistical model
Remarkably anti-intellectual statement.