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Updates

New features, weekly reports and news from DumbleScore's development.

  1. October 2026
    Features
  2. General

    Why many matches have no opportunity

    Most matches show “No edge”. Why the analysis is still complete, and why we would rather pass, even though an edge turns up somewhere almost every time.

    The path to an opportunity
    1. Calculate probability for every market
    2. Fair price Pinnacle, margin removed from the odds
    3. Hard limits no very low odds, no selections that are too uncertain, set per market
    4. Not too far from the market when the differences are large, the market often knows more
    5. Clear edge an edge remains even after the cautious adjustment towards the market price
    6. Opportunity at most one per match

    No edgeno opportunity. That is an answer too.

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  3. Features

    Hot Pick: when the edge is especially clear

    If an opportunity also passes a much stricter test in which the fair market price counts for more, we now mark it as a Hot Pick. Not more opportunities, the same performance record.

    How the opportunity is created from today
    1. Stricter test the fair market price counts for much more; even then, an edge must remain
    2. Hot Pick if it holds and the selection also passes the standard test: the opportunity of the match, with a flame
    3. Otherwise the standard test the test since October 21: cautiously adjusted towards the market price, an edge must remain
    4. Opportunity at most 1 per match, as before, then without a flame

    Limits for both tests: Pinnacle only, hard limits per market, not too far from the market, only with confirmed lineups

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  4. Features

    New: impacts before and during the match

    If a regular is unexpectedly missing, we show it as an impact, with the effect on the expected goals. From today also live: sending-offs, substitutions of key players and injuries.

    Champions League21 October 2026
    FC Bayern München2:2Half-time 1:1Arsenal
    xG final analysis
    2.01 : 1.46 → 2:1
    xG after the match
    2.25 : 1.92
    • 35' Alphonso Davies
    • 61' Harry Kane (penalty)
    • 25' Eberechi Eze
    • 82' Declan Rice
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  5. General

    New rules for opportunities

    From today, we choose the opportunity under new rules: Pinnacle only, our model cautiously adjusted towards the market, and even then an edge must remain.

    The path to an opportunity since October 21
    1. Fair price Pinnacle margin removed; no Pinnacle, no opportunity
    2. Adjust our probability cautiously adjusted towards the fair market price
    3. Clear edge even then, an edge must remain at the odds
    4. Opportunity at most 1 the most promising selection: the best edge relative to the risk

    Limits very low odds and selections that are too uncertain are ruled out, set per market; if our assessment is too far from the market, there is no opportunity

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  6. Features

    New: the review after every match

    After the final whistle, the match page now shows a review: what our model expected, how the match went and whether the opportunity came in. For everyone, no sign-in needed.

    Bundesliga18 October 2026
    Bayer 04 Leverkusen2:1Half-time 1:1SC Freiburg
    xG final analysis
    2.33 : 1.19 → 2:1
    xG after the match
    1.52 : 1.12
    Bayer 04 Leverkusen win @ 1.63Won at 2:1 · +0.63 units · our probability 61.7 %
    • 19' Ibrahim Maza
    • 76' Patrik Schick
    • 14' Derry Scherhant
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  7. General

    How our model calculates: from player to opportunity

    From player to opportunity: how DumbleScore turns the starting XI into expected goals, probabilities and a fair price, and why there is often no opportunity.

    The path of every final analysis
    1. Players 11 + 11 confirmed starting XI, every player with his ratings
    2. xG 1.05 : 1.33 expected goals per team
    3. Probability 42.4% for “Over 2.5”
    4. Market price 2.57 = 38.9% odds for “Over 2.5”, margin still included
    5. Opportunity +9% Edge: 0.424 × 2.57 − 1

    No edgeno opportunity. That is often how it ends.

    AI only writes the text and does not calculate a single number

    From the eleven players to the opportunity, using Belgrano – River Plate as the example.

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  8. Features

    New: the xG score before the match

    From now on, every final analysis shows an xG score before the match. After the final whistle, we compare it openly with the score after 90 minutes.

    Bundesliga18 October 2026
    Bayer 04 Leverkusen2:1Half-time 1:1SC Freiburg
    xG final analysis
    2.33 : 1.19 → 2:1
    xG after the match
    1.52 : 1.12
    • 19' Ibrahim Maza
    • 76' Patrik Schick
    • 14' Derry Scherhant
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  9. General

    Model and selection: how a probability becomes an opportunity

    An opportunity comes about in two steps: the model calculates the probabilities, the selection chooses the one opportunity. We test anything new in the shadow first, on the same matches.

    The three steps of the selection
    1. Fair market price odds from Pinnacle (otherwise Bet365), margin removed
    2. Clear edge edge against the fair price; the higher the odds, the larger
    3. Strict filters no very low odds, no extreme values, at most one opportunity per match

    No edgeno opportunity, and that is an honest answer.

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  10. Features

    New: live probability of another goal

    During the match, we show for each team how likely another goal is before the end of regular time. Recalculated continuously, for your matches.

    The live number at a glance
    Applies to
    regular time
    no number in extra time and penalty shoot-outs, paused at half-time
    Per team
    1 number
    separate estimates, together not 100%
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  11. Features

    New: our model next to the market

    Next to each of our probabilities, you now see the market, with the margin removed: on the match page and below every 1X2 box in the Match Center.

    Green means edge
    Our model above the market
    +6 points
    green, ▲ in the Match Center: by our calculation, an edge over the fair market price
    Our model below the market
    −4 points
    red, ▼ in the Match Center: the market sees the outcome as more likely than we do
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  12. Features
  13. Features

    New: a player model calculates the final analysis

    Since October 13, the final analysis in league and European competitions has calculated with the ratings of every player in the starting XI. What goes in and what stays the same.

    Player model in the final analysis
    Start
    13.10.2026
    League and European competitions, complete starting XI
    Player data
    up to 2 years
    club football, recent matches count more
    European competitions
    enough league matches
    per team in the last twelve months, otherwise team values
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