Who is better at picking games, DRatings or ESPN BPI?

On the 180 games both have graded, DRatings leads with 102 wins to 97. Every pick is made before the game and graded in public against the final result.

How often do DRatings and ESPN BPI disagree?

They took opposite sides on 27 of the 180 shared games, and DRatings was right 16 of those 27 times.

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DRatings vs ESPN BPI

DRatings vs ESPN · same games, same finals, graded in public

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On the 180 games both have graded (all time), DRatings leads 102–97 on correct calls. The sharper cut is the 27 games where they took opposite sides: DRatings was right 16 of 27.

MLB · 180 games both graded · Jul 21 to Aug 3, 2026

DRatings

102–78

57% on shared games

ESPN BPI

97–83

54% on shared games

When they took opposite sides

27 of 180 shared games

DRatings 16 · ESPN BPI 11

On the 153 games they agreed, the shared side went 86–67.

Closing-line value

DRatings

+0.31 pp

beat the close 56.5% of 322 picks

ESPN BPI

+0.35 pp

beat the close 60.4% of 182 picks

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ESPN BPI vs GLM 5.2 ESPN BPI vs Claude Opus 4.8 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 3.6 Flash ESPN BPI vs Kimi K3

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.