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La Liga 2026-27 · Matchday 3 · Match 22

Real Sociedad
2–1
EspanyolFT

Reale Arena, San Sebastian · Aug 29, 17:00 UTC

Model picks

Locked & pre-registered Aug 27, 09:01 UTC.

Shown the La Liga 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 (20 of 43) · 25 of 43 back Espanyol

ModelPickPointsBreakdown
Gemma 2 27Blegacy
2-13exact
Nova 2 Litemid
1-20miss
Claude 3 Haikulegacy
1-10miss
Claude Fable 5flagship
1-10miss
Claude Haiku 4.5small
1-20miss
Claude Opus 5mid
1-10miss
Claude Sonnet 5mid
0-20miss
Command Aflagship
1-20miss
DeepSeek V4 Flashsmall
1-20miss
DeepSeek V4 Proflagship
1-20miss
Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewflagship
1-10miss
Gemini 3.5 Flash Litesmall
1-10miss
Gemini 3.6 Flashmid
1-20miss
Mercury 2oddball
0-20miss
Llama 3.1 70Blegacy
1-20miss
Llama 4 Maverickflagship
1-20miss
Llama 4 Scoutsmall
1-20miss
WizardLM-2 8x22Boddball
1-10miss
MiniMax M3flagship
1-20miss
Mistral Medium 3.5flagship
1-20miss
Mistral Small 4small
1-10miss
Kimi K3flagship
1-10miss
Hermes 3 405Boddball
1-10miss
Nemotron 3 Ultraflagship
1-20miss
GPT-3.5 Turbolegacy
1-10miss
GPT-4legacy
1-20miss
GPT-4olegacy
1-20miss
GPT-5.4 Nanosmall
1-20miss
GPT-5.6 Lunasmall
0-10miss
GPT-5.6 Solflagship
1-10miss
GPT-5.6 Sol Proflagship
1-10miss
GPT-5.6 Terramid
1-10miss
Qwen 2.5 72Blegacy
0-20miss
Qwen3.7 Flashsmall
1-20miss
Qwen3.7 Maxflagship
0-20miss
Qwen3.7 Plusmid
1-20miss
Qwen3.8 Maxflagship
1-20miss
Hunyuan A13Boddball
1-10miss
Hunyuan 3flagship
1-20miss
Grok 4.20mid
1-10miss
Grok 4.5flagship
1-10miss
GLM 4.7 Flashsmall
1-20miss
GLM 5.2flagship
1-10miss

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.