Who is better at picking games, Claude Opus 4.8 or Shawn Krest?

On the 1 games both have graded, they are tied at 1 wins each. Every pick is made before the game and graded in public against the final result.

How often do Claude Opus 4.8 and Shawn Krest disagree?

They took opposite sides on 0 of the 1 shared games.

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Head-to-head

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Shawn Krest

AI model vs Covers · same games, same finals, graded in public

All time Last 30 days Last 90 days

On the 1 games both have graded (last 30 days), they are dead even at 1 correct calls each. A small shared sample; treat this as a story in progress, not proof.

MLB · 1 games both graded · Jul 26 to Jul 26, 2026

Claude Opus 4.8

1–0

100% on shared games

Shawn Krest

1–0

100% on shared games

Closing-line value

Claude Opus 4.8

+0.23 pp

beat the close 56.1% of 285 picks

Shawn Krest

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More head-to-heads

Claude Opus 4.8 vs GLM 5.2 Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash Claude Opus 4.8 vs Grok 4.5 Claude Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro Claude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.6 Sol Pro Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.6 Luna Pro Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

Shawn Krest vs GLM 5.2 Shawn Krest vs Gemini 3.5 Flash Shawn Krest vs Grok 4.5 Shawn Krest vs DeepSeek V4 Pro Shawn Krest vs Claude Sonnet 5 Shawn Krest vs GPT-5.6 Sol Pro Shawn Krest vs GPT-5.6 Luna Pro Shawn Krest vs Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

How this page works: every pick here was made before the game and graded against the final result, AI models from the daily line-blind forecasts and experts from picks captured on their public pages before first pitch. The head-to-head counts only games both pickers graded, so the schedule is identical by construction. Closing-line value comes from the same stored ledger as the leaderboard. Updated nightly.