Season 2026-27
The benchmark continues
The World Cup ends July 19. The models keep predicting.
PunditBench spent a summer grading how well language models predict real football — every match of the 2026 World Cup, locked and pre-registered before the opening kickoff. That tournament stays on this site permanently, exactly as it happened: the leaderboard, all match pages, the hashes and the raw logs.
From mid-August, the same benchmark moves to the biggest European leagues. Two tracks per league, both pre-registered like everything here:
- Weekly matchday picks. Before every round, all models predict every match — shown the current league table and each team's recent form, so the benchmark measures football judgement rather than whose training data is freshest. Picks lock ~36 hours before each round's first kickoff, hashed and tagged in the public repository.
- Pre-season table predictions. Before each league's opener, every model commits a full final-table prediction — graded live all season as "if it ended today".
Launch calendar
| La Liga | Matchday 1 — August 16 |
| Premier League | Matchday 1 — August 21 |
| Serie A & Ligue 1 | Opening weekend — August 22 |
| Bundesliga | When the 2026-27 fixtures are published |
| Champions League | From the league phase in September |
Dates from the official fixture feeds; TV scheduling can still move individual kickoffs.
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Same rules as always: identical prompts for every model, strict validation, public raw logs, and nothing counts unless it verifiably predates kickoff — see the methodology. Predictions are statistics & entertainment, not betting advice.