Football ratings

Saturday 26 September 2026 · times UK

The model's strongest calls

Nothing clears the bar today. The thresholds are set where the model has historically been as good as it claims — home win 70%, away win 60% — and a quiet day is a real answer, not a gap.

Goals — supporting, not headline

These are calibrated — a 65% call lands about 65% of the time. But the model separates high- from low-scoring matches far less sharply than it separates winners, so there is less information behind a goals number than a result one.

63%Stockport County v Peterborough — over 2.5 goals15:00 · market 70% · this strong, 66% land (4,584 cases)
60%Tenerife v Cadiz — under 2.5 goals17:30 · market 61% · this strong, 61% land (2,190 cases)
57%Celta de Vigo II v Sabadell — under 2.5 goals17:30 · market 54% · this strong, 58% land (10,295 cases)

Every fixture

League One
Cambridge United v AFC Wimbledon15:00
HomeDrawAway
Model443026
Market522622
Over 2.5Under 2.5
Model4555
Market4753
Under 4.5 goals: 91%  ·  happens 86% of the time anyway
Model is 8 points below the market on home win (pinnacle). Worth a look at why.
Plymouth v Burton Albion15:00
HomeDrawAway
Model562519
Market622116
Over 2.5Under 2.5
Model5446
Market5842
Under 4.5 goals: 85%  ·  happens 86% of the time anyway
Model is 7 points below the market on home win (pinnacle). Worth a look at why.
Stockport County v Peterborough15:00
HomeDrawAway
Model562421
Market721612
Over 2.5Under 2.5
Model6337
Market7030
Under 4.5 goals: 78%  ·  happens 86% of the time anyway
Model is 16 points below the market on home win (pinnacle). Worth a look at why.
Wycombe v Reading15:00
HomeDrawAway
Model402930
Market362637
Over 2.5Under 2.5
Model4852
Market5743
Under 4.5 goals: 89%  ·  happens 86% of the time anyway
La Liga 2
AD Ceuta FC v Real Sociedad II13:00
HomeDrawAway
Model392834
Market382735
Over 2.5Under 2.5
Model5248
Market5347
Under 4.5 goals: 85%  ·  happens 86% of the time anyway
Granada CF v FC Andorra15:15
HomeDrawAway
Model392734
Over 2.5Under 2.5
Model5545
Under 4.5 goals: 82%  ·  happens 86% of the time anyway
No market price yet — bookmakers usually post a few days out.
Celta de Vigo II v Sabadell17:30
HomeDrawAway
Model393031
Market302942
Over 2.5Under 2.5
Model4357
Market4654
Under 4.5 goals: 91%  ·  happens 86% of the time anyway
Model is 9 points above the market on home win (pinnacle). Worth a look at why.
Tenerife v Cadiz17:30
HomeDrawAway
Model552817
Market512920
Over 2.5Under 2.5
Model4060
Market3961
Under 4.5 goals: 92%  ·  happens 86% of the time anyway

How the calls did

No calls have been settled since yesterday.

0 of 0 settled since yesterday · 228 of 342 since the model went live.

Every match, for the record

The model rates the whole card, not just the calls, and learns from all of it. Judged as probabilities rather than picks — a 38% favourite losing is the model working, not failing.

·Resulttop pick right 1/1, we claimed 55% · 329/691 all-time
what actually happenedwe gave it 55% on average
·Over/under 2.5top pick right 1/1, we claimed 50% · 395/691 all-time
what actually happenedwe gave it 50% on average

A well-calibrated model's average claim matches how often it happens. That is the number Rule 9 gates on, and it is tracked for results and goals alike whether or not a fixture ever produced a call.

What these numbers are. The model's own estimate of how likely each result is, from form, Elo, rest, shots and xG as they stood at 06:00 UK on match day. One bivariate Poisson produces all of them, so the result and the goals figures share one underlying view of the match. Each published figure is then calibrated against what actually happened in past matches, one market at a time — so they agree closely but are not forced to agree exactly. Market figures are the bookmaker's prices with their margin removed, so the two are comparable.

What they are not. Across 57,633 out-of-sample fixtures the market separated matches better than the model in every league, every season, every outcome and every confidence band — 24 slices, no exceptions, re-tested in August 2026 on the current model. This is a second opinion, not an edge. Where it earns its keep is honesty about its own confidence: when it says 74%, that happens about 74% of the time.

Why a call appears. Thresholds — home 70% · away 60% · over 60% · under 55% — sit where the model has historically been as good as its claim. Raising them would surface fewer calls and be less accurate about them, because its confidence above those levels is inflated everywhere except home wins. Draws are never flagged: the highest one ever rated was 62%.

8 rated · 0 not rated · model goals_v7_cal · built 2026-09-26 07:06 UK