Gagra v Dinamo Batumi — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Erovnuli Liga · Wednesday, 6 May 2026. Final score 1–2 (half-time 0–1). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 48% for over 2.5 goals. This match is older than our frozen ratings ledger, which keeps 30 days, so that figure is a reconstruction from pre-match data rather than a number we published at the time — a distinction worth making, because only the frozen ones prove what we actually said beforehand.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals48%52%Under
Over 3.5 goals25%75%no pick
Both teams to score52%48%Yes

The result model puts Gagra at 38%, the draw at 30% and Dinamo Batumi at 32%, from expected goals of 1.17 and 1.05.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Erovnuli Liga has produced over 2.5 goals in 49% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Gagra have 4 in 10 this season (3 of 5 at home), Dinamo Batumi 6 in 10 (2 of 5 away). Those records are pulled toward the league rate with the weight of about 24 matches — enough that two or three unusual games cannot swing a rating — giving 47% and 53%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 10 and 10 games played this season, last season's rates are still blended in and fade out entirely by game 40 — the point at which our testing showed they stop adding accuracy. A single season is part luck, so each club's record is first pulled toward the league average by 34 games' weight. That moves the two figures to 50% and 50%.

The mix. Weighted 40% home side, 40% away side and 20% league — the split that beat every alternative across 30,582 matches of testing — that gives 50%.

Head to head. These sides have met 12 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 58%. That nudges the number 5% of the way toward the head-to-head pattern — deliberately small, because fixtures change more than reputations do — landing on 50%.

Goal expectation. Separately a Poisson model built from attack and defence strength — using real expected-goals data where the league has it — puts this match at 38%, from expected goals of 1.17 for Gagra and 1.05 for Dinamo Batumi. Folding in 30% of that view gives 47%.

Calibration. Tested against 97,729 past matches, our ratings below 55% have run consistently too pessimistic — a figure in the high 30s, for instance, has come in about four points higher. So ratings in that range are lifted part-way back, giving 48%.

This breakdown is generated from the same inputs the rating uses, so it cannot describe a calculation we did not perform. The full model is set out in the methodology.

Season form

TeamGamesO2.5O3.5BTTS
Gagra1040%10%60%
Dinamo Batumi1060%30%50%

Head to head

7 Mar 26Dinamo Batumi 1–1 GagraU2.5
26 Oct 25Gagra 4–1 Dinamo BatumiO2.5
17 Aug 25Dinamo Batumi 1–2 GagraO2.5
3 May 25Gagra 1–1 Dinamo BatumiU2.5
10 Mar 25Dinamo Batumi 2–1 GagraO2.5
18 Oct 24Dinamo Batumi 3–2 GagraO2.5

More: Gagra season stats · Dinamo Batumi season stats · Erovnuli Liga table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.