Süper Lig · Saturday, 31 October 2026 · 13:00. Our rating makes this 45% to go over 2.5 goals, so our lean is under. The Süper Lig average is 54%.
| Market | Yes | No | Our call |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 2.5 goals | 45% | 55% | Under |
| Over 3.5 goals | 23% | 77% | no pick |
| Both teams to score | 50% | 50% | No |
The result model puts Kocaelispor at 42%, the draw at 30% and Rizespor at 28%, from expected goals of 1.19 and 0.92.
The league sets the starting point. Süper Lig has produced over 2.5 goals in 54% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.
Each side's own record. Kocaelispor have 3 in 8 this season (1 of 4 at home), Rizespor 4 in 8 (3 of 5 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 50% and 53%.
Last season still counts, briefly. With 8 and 8 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 42% and 56%.
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 50%.
Head to head. These sides have met 2 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 0%. 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 47%.
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 35%, from expected goals of 1.19 for Kocaelispor and 0.92 for Rizespor. Folding in 30% of that view gives 44%.
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 45%.
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.
| Team | Games | O2.5 | O3.5 | BTTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kocaelispor | 8 | 38% | 0% | 38% |
| Rizespor | 8 | 50% | 13% | 38% |
Our numbers give this match a 67% chance of at least one goal before half-time and 32% of two or more. The Süper Lig rates, last season and this season combined, are 69% and 34% (this season so far: 76% with a first-half goal, from 72 games). After the break: 79% for a goal and 45% for two or more (league 80% and 48%). Kocaelispor's last 50 games had a first-half goal 58% of the time and a second-half goal 70%; Rizespor's last 50, 72% and 88%. A goal in both halves: 53% (league 57%). Highest-scoring half: second 45%, first 28%, level 27% — close to the league's usual split, because team form says little about which half is busier. Team form says less about a single half than about a full match, so these numbers stay close to the league's.
Every match ranked the same way: first half goals today · second half goals today · goal in both halves today · tomorrow.
More: Kocaelispor season stats · Rizespor season stats · Süper Lig table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.