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

On the 261 games both have graded, Claude Opus 4.8 leads with 156 wins to 154. Every pick is made before the game and graded in public against the final result.

How often do Claude Opus 4.8 and DRatings disagree?

They took opposite sides on 32 of the 261 shared games, and Claude Opus 4.8 was right 17 of those 32 times.

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Claude Opus 4.8 vs DRatings

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

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On the 261 games both have graded (all time), Claude Opus 4.8 leads 156–154 on correct calls. The sharper cut is the 32 games where they took opposite sides: Claude Opus 4.8 was right 17 of 32.

MLB · 236 games both graded · Jul 20 to Aug 6, 2026

Claude Opus 4.8

138–98

58% on shared games

DRatings

138–98

58% on shared games

When they took opposite sides

26 of 236 shared games

Claude Opus 4.8 13 · DRatings 13

On the 210 games they agreed, the shared side went 125–85.

UFC · 25 games both graded · Jul 25 to Aug 1, 2026

Claude Opus 4.8

18–7

72% on shared games

DRatings

16–9

64% on shared games

When they took opposite sides

6 of 25 shared games

Claude Opus 4.8 4 · DRatings 2

On the 19 games they agreed, the shared side went 14–5.

Closing-line value

Claude Opus 4.8

+0.30 pp

beat the close 55.9% of 431 picks

DRatings

+0.37 pp

beat the close 57.0% of 237 picks

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 Luna Pro Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 3.6 Flash

DRatings vs GLM 5.2 DRatings vs Gemini 3.5 Flash DRatings vs Grok 4.5 DRatings vs DeepSeek V4 Pro DRatings vs Claude Sonnet 5 DRatings vs GPT-5.6 Luna Pro DRatings vs Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite DRatings vs Gemini 3.6 Flash

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.