Vaprus v Kuressaare — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Meistriliiga · Wednesday, 28 October 2026 · 16:00. Our rating makes this 59% to go over 2.5 goals, so our lean is over. The Meistriliiga average is 66%.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals59%41%Over
Over 3.5 goals35%65%no pick
Both teams to score55%45%Yes

The result model puts Vaprus at 52%, the draw at 25% and Kuressaare at 23%, from expected goals of 1.67 and 1.02.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Meistriliiga has produced over 2.5 goals in 66% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Vaprus have 21 in 32 this season (10 of 16 at home), Kuressaare 17 in 32 (8 of 16 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 66% and 59%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 32 and 32 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 66% and 59%.

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 63%.

Head to head. These sides have met 12 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 50%. 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 63%.

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 50%, from expected goals of 1.67 for Vaprus and 1.02 for Kuressaare. Folding in 30% of that view gives 59%.

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
Vaprus3266%47%66%
Kuressaare3253%34%47%

Head to head

29 Aug 26Kuressaare 2–2 VaprusO2.5
26 Jun 26Vaprus 1–0 KuressaareU2.5
21 Apr 26Kuressaare 0–1 VaprusU2.5
21 Oct 25Vaprus 0–1 KuressaareU2.5
20 Jul 25Kuressaare 2–1 VaprusO2.5
1 Jun 25Vaprus 2–1 KuressaareO2.5

More: Vaprus season stats · Kuressaare season stats · Meistriliiga table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.