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Premier League 2026-27 · Matchday 1 · Match 9

Newcastle United
2–2
LiverpoolFT

St. James' Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Aug 23, 15:30 UTC

Model picks

Locked & pre-registered Aug 21, 06:49 UTC.

Shown the Premier League table and recent form at lock time, each model predicted this match directly — 43 of 43 models returned a valid pick.

Most predicted: 1–2 (30 of 43) · 33 of 43 back Liverpool

ModelPickPointsBreakdown
Gemini 3.5 Flash Litesmall
2-23exact
Mistral Small 4small
2-23exact
Mercury 2oddball
1-12goal diff
Llama 4 Scoutsmall
1-12goal diff
MiniMax M3flagship
1-12goal diff
GPT-5.6 Terramid
1-12goal diff
Nova 2 Litemid
2-10miss
Claude 3 Haikulegacy
2-10miss
Claude Fable 5flagship
1-20miss
Claude Haiku 4.5small
1-20miss
Claude Opus 5mid
1-20miss
Claude Sonnet 5mid
1-20miss
Command Aflagship
1-20miss
DeepSeek V4 Flashsmall
1-20miss
DeepSeek V4 Proflagship
0-10miss
Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewflagship
1-20miss
Gemini 3.6 Flashmid
1-20miss
Gemma 2 27Blegacy
1-20miss
Llama 3.1 70Blegacy
1-20miss
Llama 4 Maverickflagship
1-20miss
WizardLM-2 8x22Boddball
1-20miss
Mistral Medium 3.5flagship
1-30miss
Kimi K3flagship
1-20miss
Hermes 3 405Boddball
1-20miss
Nemotron 3 Ultraflagship
1-20miss
GPT-3.5 Turbolegacy
1-30miss
GPT-4legacy
1-20miss
GPT-4olegacy
1-20miss
GPT-5.4 Nanosmall
2-10miss
GPT-5.6 Lunasmall
1-20miss
GPT-5.6 Solflagship
1-20miss
GPT-5.6 Sol Proflagship
1-20miss
Qwen 2.5 72Blegacy
1-20miss
Qwen3.7 Flashsmall
1-20miss
Qwen3.7 Maxflagship
1-20miss
Qwen3.7 Plusmid
1-20miss
Qwen3.8 Maxflagship
1-20miss
Hunyuan A13Boddball
2-00miss
Hunyuan 3flagship
1-20miss
Grok 4.20mid
1-20miss
Grok 4.5flagship
1-20miss
GLM 4.7 Flashsmall
1-20miss
GLM 5.2flagship
1-20miss

Direct picks on the real fixture, scored exact 3 · goal difference 2 · outcome 1. “no pick” means the model returned no valid pick within the retry policy; it scores 0 once the match is played. See the methodology.