# Wired's Will Knight puts AI agents in charge of a fantasy soccer team, and they trail the average

> Original title: I Put a Bunch of AI Agents in Charge of a Fantasy Soccer Team. They’re Not Better Than Humans—Yet

- Source: Wired · AI
- Published: 2026-10-28T18:30:00.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/u9x1rfqrn8enfh67tebupza4t
- Original: https://www.wired.com/story/i-put-ai-agents-in-charge-of-a-fantasy-team/

## Summary

Will Knight built a Codex-based harness of AI agents to pick and manage a Premier League fantasy team, and the agents have not outscored the average over the past weeks. Early suggestions left Erling Haaland on the bench, and adding more than 100 agents mostly raised his API bill. Researchers at the University of Chicago say models have done well on prediction markets, with GPT-5 ranking highest among those tested.