Who is better at picking games, Grok 4.5 or Javan Shouey?

On the 12 games both have graded, Grok 4.5 leads with 7 wins to 6. Every pick is made before the game and graded in public against the final result.

How often do Grok 4.5 and Javan Shouey disagree?

They took opposite sides on 5 of the 12 shared games, and Grok 4.5 was right 3 of those 5 times.

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Head-to-head

Grok 4.5 vs Javan Shouey

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

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On the 12 games both have graded (all time), Grok 4.5 leads 7–6 on correct calls. They have only disagreed 5 times so far, too few to read. A small shared sample; treat this as a story in progress, not proof.

MLB · 12 games both graded · Jul 20 to Jul 26, 2026

Grok 4.5

7–5

58% on shared games

Javan Shouey

6–6

50% on shared games

When they took opposite sides

5 of 12 shared games

Grok 4.5 3 · Javan Shouey 2

On the 7 games they agreed, the shared side went 4–3.

Closing-line value

Grok 4.5

+0.26 pp

beat the close 57.3% of 185 picks

Javan Shouey

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More head-to-heads

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Javan Shouey vs GLM 5.2 Javan Shouey vs Claude Opus 4.8 Javan Shouey vs Gemini 3.5 Flash Javan Shouey vs DeepSeek V4 Pro Javan Shouey vs Claude Sonnet 5 Javan Shouey vs GPT-5.6 Sol Pro Javan Shouey vs GPT-5.6 Luna Pro Javan Shouey 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.