Ostersunds FK v Osters IF — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Superettan · Saturday, 1 August 2026. Final score 1–0 (half-time 0–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 60% 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 goals60%40%Over
Over 3.5 goals39%61%no pick
Both teams to score61%39%Yes

The result model puts Ostersunds FK at 40%, the draw at 23% and Osters IF at 37%, from expected goals of 1.8 and 1.74.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Superettan has produced over 2.5 goals in 56% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Ostersunds FK have 8 in 16 this season (4 of 7 at home), Osters IF 12 in 16 (6 of 7 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 54% and 64%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 16 and 16 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 53% and 64%.

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 58%.

Head to head. These sides have met 4 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 25%. 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 56%.

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 69%, from expected goals of 1.8 for Ostersunds FK and 1.74 for Osters IF. Folding in 30% of that view gives 60%.

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
Ostersunds FK1650%31%69%
Osters IF1675%44%56%

Head to head

25 Apr 26Osters IF 1–0 Ostersunds FKU2.5
10 Aug 24Ostersunds FK 0–0 Osters IFU2.5
16 Jun 24Osters IF 1–1 Ostersunds FKU2.5
4 Nov 23Ostersunds FK 1–2 Osters IFO2.5
29 Apr 23Osters IF 0–1 Ostersunds FKU2.5
27 Aug 22Osters IF 2–1 Ostersunds FKO2.5

More: Ostersunds FK season stats · Osters IF season stats · Superettan table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.