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

On the 43 games both have graded, ESPN BPI leads with 24 wins to 23. 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 9 of the 43 shared games, and ESPN BPI was right 5 of those 9 times.

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Head-to-head

Claude Opus 5 vs ESPN BPI

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

All time Last 30 days Last 90 days

On the 43 games both have graded (last 30 days), ESPN BPI leads 24–23 on correct calls. They have only disagreed 9 times so far, too few to read.

MLB · 43 games both graded · Jul 24 to Jul 26, 2026

Claude Opus 5

23–20

53% on shared games

ESPN BPI

24–19

56% on shared games

When they took opposite sides

9 of 43 shared games

Claude Opus 5 4 · ESPN BPI 5

On the 34 games they agreed, the shared side went 19–15.

Closing-line value

Claude Opus 5

-0.11 pp

beat the close 47.7% of 44 picks

ESPN BPI

+0.28 pp

beat the close 59.0% of 78 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 Sol Pro ESPN BPI vs GPT-5.6 Luna Pro

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.