Wacker Innsbruck v Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz — prediction, stats and goal analysis

2. Liga · Friday, 31 July 2026. Final score 5–0 (half-time 4–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 29% 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 goals29%71%Under
Over 3.5 goals16%84%no pick
Both teams to score27%73%No

The result model puts Wacker Innsbruck at 47%, the draw at 24% and Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz at 30%, from expected goals of 1.82 and 1.41.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. 2. Liga has produced over 2.5 goals in 0% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Wacker Innsbruck have 0 in 0 this season, Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz 0 in 0. 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 0% and 0%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 0 and 0 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 0% and 30%.

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 12%.

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 63%, from expected goals of 1.82 for Wacker Innsbruck and 1.41 for Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz. Folding in 30% of that view gives 27%.

Season opener. One of these sides has not played a league game yet. Openers run about 2.5 points under their league's norm, measured across 2,727 of them, so the rating is docked to 25%.

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 29%.

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
Wacker Innsbruck0———
Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz0———

Things worth knowing

More: Wacker Innsbruck season stats · Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz season stats · 2. Liga table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.