diff --git a/rdagent/scenarios/kaggle/kaggle_crawler.py b/rdagent/scenarios/kaggle/kaggle_crawler.py
index 7a7a5adb..3e6e38be 100644
--- a/rdagent/scenarios/kaggle/kaggle_crawler.py
+++ b/rdagent/scenarios/kaggle/kaggle_crawler.py
@@ -202,6 +202,8 @@ def get_metric_direction(competition: str) -> bool:
     Return **True** if the metric is *bigger is better*, **False** if *smaller is better*.
     """
     leaderboard = leaderboard_scores(competition)
+    if float(leaderboard[0]) == float(leaderboard[-1]):
+        return float(leaderboard[0]) >= 0.5
     return float(leaderboard[0]) > float(leaderboard[-1])