NSI Runavik v B36 Torshavn — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Meistaradeildin · Saturday, 13 June 2026. Final score 3–0 (half-time 2–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 68% 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 goals68%32%Over
Over 3.5 goals46%54%Over
Both teams to score61%39%Yes

The result model puts NSI Runavik at 52%, the draw at 22% and B36 Torshavn at 26%, from expected goals of 2.02 and 1.39.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Meistaradeildin has produced over 2.5 goals in 69% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. NSI Runavik have 6 in 12 this season (2 of 5 at home), B36 Torshavn 6 in 12 (4 of 6 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 63% and 63%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 12 and 12 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 73% and 65%.

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 69%.

Head to head. These sides have met 7 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 71%. 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 69%.

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 66%, from expected goals of 2.02 for NSI Runavik and 1.39 for B36 Torshavn. Folding in 30% of that view gives 68%.

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
NSI Runavik1250%25%58%
B36 Torshavn1250%33%50%

Head to head

4 May 26B36 Torshavn 2–0 NSI RunavikU2.5
3 Oct 25NSI Runavik 2–1 B36 TorshavnO2.5
15 Jun 25B36 Torshavn 2–2 NSI RunavikO2.5
9 Mar 25NSI Runavik 4–3 B36 TorshavnO2.5
15 Sept 24B36 Torshavn 2–2 NSI RunavikO2.5
25 May 24NSI Runavik 2–2 B36 TorshavnO2.5

More: NSI Runavik season stats · B36 Torshavn season stats · Meistaradeildin table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.