# I Put a Bunch of AI Agents in Charge of a Fantasy Soccer Team. They're Not Better Than Humans—Yet

> **Publication**: aitalky (Independent AI Journalism)
> **Canonical Citation URL**: https://aitalky.vercel.app/news/i-put-a-bunch-of-ai-agents-in-charge-of-a-fantasy-soccer-team-theyre-not-better-than
> **Original Source**: [Wired AI](https://www.wired.com/story/i-put-ai-agents-in-charge-of-a-fantasy-team/)
> **Author**: Will Knight (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Wednesday, October 28, 2026
> **Category**: CULTURE
> **Tags**: AI, Wired AI, culture

## Executive Summary
To experiment with AI's predictive skills, I let Codex loose on a fantasy team. It tried to bench Erling Haaland at first, but it soon learned the error of its ways



## Full Coverage
A few weeks ago, I deployed a small horde of AI agents to craft and manage an experimental roster. Given the proliferation of AI agents into pretty much every aspect of our lives, I wanted to know if a swarm of bots could put together a winning team

I first looked at the potential for AI here a few years ago, playing around with a tool from the UK's Turing Institute that selected teams after modeling previous fantasy league data. Its suggestions were remarkably bonkers—it didn't incorporate real-world information, like a player's injury or a team's change in management

This time, while on a flight to visit family, I asked Codex for help. First, I fed the model a couple of relevant research papers. Then, I asked it to build a harness—instructions and code that guides different agents through various steps—that would check recent news and run a model to make predictions

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