1. Division · Saturday, 31 October 2026 · 12:00. Our rating makes this 52% to go over 2.5 goals, so our lean is over. The 1. Division average is 54%.
| Market | Yes | No | Our call |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 2.5 goals | 52% | 48% | Over |
| Over 3.5 goals | 31% | 69% | no pick |
| Both teams to score | 57% | 43% | Yes |
The result model puts Kolding IF at 46%, the draw at 27% and HB Koge at 28%, from expected goals of 1.5 and 1.1.
The league sets the starting point. 1. Division 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. Kolding IF have 5 in 11 this season (3 of 6 at home), HB Koge 6 in 11 (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 52% and 54%.
Last season still counts, briefly. With 11 and 11 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 52% and 54%.
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 53%.
Head to head. These sides have met 5 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 60%. 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 54%.
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 48%, from expected goals of 1.5 for Kolding IF and 1.1 for HB Koge. Folding in 30% of that view gives 52%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kolding IF | 11 | 45% | 18% | 82% |
| HB Koge | 11 | 55% | 45% | 55% |
Our numbers give this match a 74% chance of at least one goal before half-time and 32% of two or more. The 1. Division rates, last season and this season combined, are 75% and 35% (this season so far: 76% with a first-half goal, from 66 games). After the break: 80% for a goal and 46% for two or more (league 79% and 47%). Kolding IF's last 50 games had a first-half goal 72% of the time and a second-half goal 80%; HB Koge's last 50, 74% and 88%. A goal in both halves: 61% (league 61%). Highest-scoring half: second 43%, first 30%, 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: Kolding IF season stats · HB Koge season stats · 1. Division table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.