Golden Picks

Skills and performance

Everything the report measures, on one page. Pick skill is the stated chance against what happened: Brier 0.25 is a coin flip, so Brier skill is how much better than a coin flip the stated chances were. Paper units are 1u per pick at the model's own fair price, never money. Written 2026-11-12 09:53 UTC.

4143graded picks, all sports
+20.67upaper units, all picks
+42.42upaper units, 60%+ (701)
590finals captured, all time

Skills by sport

SportGradedW-LWonBrierBrier skillCalibration slopePaper units60%+
tennis2033
12 pending
1102-93154.2%
stated 54.6%
0.24103.6%1.23-18.48u272-109 · +21.61u
soccer1694
57 pending
845-453-39649.9%
stated 48.3%
0.23685.3%1.47+38.18u137-18-27 · +23.95u
baseball339
10 pending
199-14058.7%
stated 57.0%
0.24093.6%0.87+10.71u57-33 · -0.35u
football46
14 pending
30-1665.2%
stated 69.6%
0.206717.3%—-3.33u24-10 · -2.35u
lol31
1 pending
16-1551.6%
stated 62.8%
0.23067.8%—-6.42u10-4 · -0.44u

Models

Tennis modelHeld-out acc (seasoned)BrierWarming-up accBrier
duel-elo-v1 baseline (the lab's v1 replay reproduces predict-41's v1 backtest; live now: duel-elo-v4)59.4%0.235255.2%0.2414
Lab's best rule: History + pre-season seed for newcomers + margin-weighted (z -3.83; warming-up z -6.99)62.7%0.226364.2%0.2177

Shadow v2 forward test: 167 locked, 151 graded, 12 pending · v1 Brier 0.2399 vs v2 0.2317 · live duel-elo-v2/duel-elo-v3/duel-elo-v4 0.2136 vs v1 0.2373 on 103.

Model vs market (tennis, Polymarket)

151 tennis picks carry a Polymarket price stamped once before the start (vig removed; read-only, never an order). On the 139 graded so far: model Brier 0.2157 (won 66.9%) against the market's 0.2114 (won 62.6%). They backed the same player 105 times; of the 34 splits the model was right 20. The research bar: the betting market is usually the hardest benchmark to beat.

Pick managers

ManagerBankrollSettled P&LROIW-LWorst dropOpen · at stake
Guardian
risk management: agreed favourites only, small stakes, tight exposure
98.07u-1.93u-7.3%20-133.3%3 · 2.26u
Hunter
high risk, high return: longer prices, bigger stakes, the underpriced underdog
96.05u-3.95u-7.7%9-1519.1%4 · 10.19u

Watcher coverage

Picks: 0 in play now · 590 finals captured all time (every conviction) · 412 with their plays in the learner capture · 340 score timelines archived. Every listed match: 104 tracked (tennis 102, football 2), 0 in play · 595 finals in the all-time archive.

Data collected, by day (UTC)

DayFinals archived (every listed match)Picked matches captured with playsMarket prices stampedShadow picks graded
2026-11-122015715
2026-11-112033
2026-11-102215813
2026-11-092823916
2026-11-0882732013
2026-11-0791792619
2026-11-0648331016

Daily tests

2026-11-09: PASS · 10 judged · 10 settled