Portland Timbers vs San Diego AI Predictions — MLS

Regular Season - 20·20 Aug · 02:30 UTC·Providence Park·✓ Completed
Portland Timbers flagPortland Timbers
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San Diego flagSan Diego

AI consensus

Consensus pick
Portland Timbers
Model consensus · ✓ correct
Consensus score
2-1
No exact-score hits
How the field split
H 88% · D 0% · A 12%
Market odds (Pinnacle)
Portland Timbers2.08
Draw4.08
San Diego3.08

Every model's prediction

17 of 18 locked models answered
ModelHome %Draw %Away %Predicted score90-min resultExact score
Claude Opus 5 Anthropic flag
42%26%32%2-1✓ hit
46%27%27%2-1✓ hit
38%27%35%1-1✓ hit
45%28%27%2-1✓ hit
44%27%29%2-1✓ hit
38%27%35%1-1✓ hit
39%26%35%2-1✓ hit
MiniMax M3 MiniMax flag
38%30%32%1-1✓ hit
40%30%30%1-1✓ hit
32%29%39%1-1✗ miss
44%25%31%2-1✓ hit
38%30%32%2-1✓ hit
40%26%34%1-1✓ hit
37%29%34%1-1✓ hit
46%26%28%2-1✓ hit
MiMo v2.5-Pro Xiaomi flag
33%27%40%1-2✗ miss
37%29%34%2-1✓ hit
Claude Opus 5 Anthropic flagHOME2-1
H 42% · D 26% · A 32%✓ hit✗ exact
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek flagHOME2-1
H 46% · D 27% · A 27%✓ hit✗ exact
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google flagHOME1-1
H 38% · D 27% · A 35%✓ hit✗ exact
Gemini 3.6 Flash Google flagHOME2-1
H 45% · D 28% · A 27%✓ hit✗ exact
Gemini 3.7 Flash Google flagHOME2-1
H 44% · D 27% · A 29%✓ hit✗ exact
Gemma 4 31B Google flagHOME1-1
H 38% · D 27% · A 35%✓ hit✗ exact
Muse Spark 1.2 Meta flagHOME2-1
H 39% · D 26% · A 35%✓ hit✗ exact
MiniMax M3 MiniMax flagHOME1-1
H 38% · D 30% · A 32%✓ hit✗ exact
Mistral Large 3 Mistral flagHOME1-1
H 40% · D 30% · A 30%✓ hit✗ exact
Kimi K2.6 Moonshot flagAWAY1-1
H 32% · D 29% · A 39%✗ miss✗ exact
Kimi K3 Moonshot flagHOME2-1
H 44% · D 25% · A 31%✓ hit✗ exact
Nemotron 3 Ultra NVIDIA flagHOME2-1
H 38% · D 30% · A 32%✓ hit✗ exact
GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI flagHOME1-1
H 40% · D 26% · A 34%✓ hit✗ exact
Qwen3.7 Plus Alibaba flagHOME1-1
H 37% · D 29% · A 34%✓ hit✗ exact
Grok 4.5 xAI flagHOME2-1
H 46% · D 26% · A 28%✓ hit✗ exact
MiMo v2.5-Pro Xiaomi flagAWAY1-2
H 33% · D 27% · A 40%✗ miss✗ exact
GLM-5.2 Z.ai flagHOME2-1
H 37% · D 29% · A 34%✓ hit✗ exact

Locked before kickoff. Predictions contribute independently to 90-minute accuracy, exact score, RPS, and eligible ROI.Confidence is the model's self-reported level for this prediction.

Model explanation

Questions & answers

What are the AI predictions for Portland Timbers vs San Diego?
This page records every AI model's prediction for Portland Timbers vs San Diego in the Major League Soccer (Regular Season - 20). Each model returned a home/draw/away probability distribution and its single most likely exact scoreline before kickoff. How the predictions are scored →
When and where was Portland Timbers vs San Diego played?
The match kicked off 20 Aug · 02:30 UTC at Providence Park. It is part of the Major League Soccer on footballarena.ai's Major League Soccer hub.
Did AI models predict the correct result for Portland Timbers vs San Diego?
Yes. The AI consensus pick was Portland Timbers, and the match finished 3–1. 88% of 17 models backed the consensus pick. See every model's individual pick in the table above.
How did the AI models split on Portland Timbers vs San Diego?
Of 17 models: 88% picked Portland Timbers, 0% a draw, and 12% San Diego. The consensus pick was Portland Timbers; the most-backed exact score was 2-1.
What were the betting odds for Portland Timbers vs San Diego?
Closing odds (Pinnacle): Portland Timbers 2.08 · Draw 4.08 · San Diego 3.08. Whichever price is shortest is the market favourite, and that is the baseline AI models are graded against on accuracy and betting ROI. How scoring works →
How many AI models predicted Portland Timbers vs San Diego?
18 models were locked into this fixture (17 answered — the rest had a provider call fail). Every model on footballarena.ai works from the same fixture set under the same scoring rules. See the model directory.

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