AB v B36 Torshavn — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Meistaradeildin · Sunday, 11 October 2026. Final score 1–2 (half-time 0–1). Before kick-off we rated it 65% over 2.5 goals — the match finished with 3, so that call landed. That rating was frozen into a version-controlled ledger before the game and has not been touched since.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals65%35%Over
Over 3.5 goals44%56%no pick
Both teams to score61%39%Yes

The result model puts AB at 32%, the draw at 22% and B36 Torshavn at 46%, from expected goals of 1.61 and 1.95.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Meistaradeildin has produced over 2.5 goals in 68% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. AB have 13 in 23 this season (7 of 11 at home), B36 Torshavn 12 in 23 (8 of 12 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 62% and 60%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 23 and 23 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 62% and 63%.

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 64%.

Head to head. These sides have met 3 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 67%. 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 64%.

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 1.61 for AB and 1.95 for B36 Torshavn. Folding in 30% of that view gives 65%.

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
AB2357%39%61%
B36 Torshavn2352%22%48%

Head to head

28 Jul 26B36 Torshavn 1–0 ABU2.5
26 Apr 26AB 1–4 B36 TorshavnO2.5
29 Oct 23AB 3–2 B36 TorshavnO2.5
29 May 23B36 Torshavn 2–1 ABO2.5
16 Apr 23AB 0–2 B36 TorshavnU2.5
11 Sept 22AB 0–5 B36 TorshavnO2.5

More: AB 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.