Who is better at picking games, Claude Opus 5 or ESPN BPI?

On the 148 games both have graded, Claude Opus 5 leads with 83 wins to 79. Every pick is made before the game and graded in public against the final result.

How often do Claude Opus 5 and ESPN BPI disagree?

They took opposite sides on 24 of the 148 shared games, and Claude Opus 5 was right 14 of those 24 times.

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Claude Opus 5 vs ESPN BPI

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

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On the 148 games both have graded (all time), Claude Opus 5 leads 83–79 on correct calls. The sharper cut is the 24 games where they took opposite sides: Claude Opus 5 was right 14 of 24.

MLB · 148 games both graded · Jul 24 to Aug 3, 2026

Claude Opus 5

83–65

56% on shared games

ESPN BPI

79–69

53% on shared games

When they took opposite sides

24 of 148 shared games

Claude Opus 5 14 · ESPN BPI 10

On the 124 games they agreed, the shared side went 69–55.

Closing-line value

Claude Opus 5

+0.34 pp

beat the close 55.3% of 190 picks

ESPN BPI

+0.35 pp

beat the close 60.4% of 182 picks

More head-to-heads

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