Expert picks for 25 football matches, every Friday

What the players with the best long-term record in a prediction game running since 1997 picked, published the moment their picks lock. JSON and MCP.

What you get

One round per Classic game (btm Bundesliga TipMaster, tmi TipMaster International), 25 matches each. Before the deadline released is false, expertPick and expert are null and expertSample is 0, while releaseUtc and criteria are already there; the crowd's split is live from the start.

{
  "game": "btm",
  "competition": "Classic · Bundesliga TipMaster",
  "round": 7,
  "deadlineUtc": 1790956800,
  "released": true,
  "releaseUtc": 1790956800,
  "criteria": {
    "ranking": "classic_career_points_per_match",
    "minCareerMatches": 100,
    "topFraction": 0.25,
    "qualifiedTrainers": 212,
    "cutoffPointsPerMatch": 1.62
  },
  "matches": [
    {
      "id": "classic:btm:7:1",
      "home": "TOP Oss",
      "away": "MVV Maastricht",
      "kickoffUtc": 1791037800,
      "status": "locked",
      "result": null,
      "expertPick": "home",
      "expert": { "home": 0.792, "draw": 0.075, "away": 0.132 },
      "expertSample": 53,
      "crowd": { "home": 0.709, "draw": 0.054, "away": 0.236 },
      "crowdSample": 296
    }
  ]
}

Illustrative numbers. Shares are fractions of the sample and sum to one. Odds are never included; neither is anything about a single player.

Endpoints

Quick start

curl

curl -s "https://tipmaster.net/api/agent/v1/experts?game=btm" | jq '.rounds[0].matches[] | {home, away, expertPick, expert}'

Claude

Add a custom connector with the URL https://tipmaster.net/api/agent/mcp. No login step; the tools appear at once. Then ask, for example, "Where do TipMaster's experts disagree with the crowd this weekend?"

Any MCP client

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tipmaster-consensus": { "url": "https://tipmaster.net/api/agent/mcp" }
  }
}

Python

import requests
r = requests.get("https://tipmaster.net/api/agent/v1/experts", params={"game": "btm"})
for rnd in r.json()["rounds"]:
    print(rnd["competition"], "round", rnd["round"], "released:", rnd["released"])
    for m in rnd["matches"]:
        print(f'{m["home"]} - {m["away"]}: experts {m["expertPick"]} {m["expert"]}, crowd {m["crowd"]}')

Rules of use

Open access, 60 requests per minute per IP address. Responses carry a 60 second cache header, so there is no point polling faster. Please link to https://tipmaster.net/agents/ wherever you show or cite the numbers; every record carries that URL in its source field. The feed is informational. It is not betting advice and it contains no odds. Use of the feed is subject to the feed terms of use.

Where the numbers come from

Classic players pick 25 matches a round before a Friday 18:00 Berlin deadline. Their picks are counted straight from the game's own tip files, so the crowd's split moves while the round is open, just as members see it inside the game. In a Classic match two players' picks decide the result, so a player's career points per match (3 for a win, 1 for a draw, every match since 1997, refreshed weekly) measures how well they have predicted over the years. The expert cohort is the top quarter of the round's players with at least 100 such matches. Their picks stay private until the deadline so nobody still playing can copy them.

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