NB I · Saturday, 31 October 2026 · 16:00. Our rating makes this 57% to go over 2.5 goals, so our lean is over. The NB I average is 59%.
| Market | Yes | No | Our call |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 2.5 goals | 57% | 43% | Over |
| Over 3.5 goals | 34% | 66% | no pick |
| Both teams to score | 59% | 41% | Yes |
The result model puts Puskas Academy at 29%, the draw at 24% and Debreceni VSC at 47%, from expected goals of 1.32 and 1.76.
The league sets the starting point. NB I has produced over 2.5 goals in 59% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.
Each side's own record. Puskas Academy have 4 in 10 this season (3 of 4 at home), Debreceni VSC 5 in 10 (2 of 4 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 57%.
Last season still counts, briefly. With 10 and 10 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 55% and 57%.
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 57%.
Head to head. These sides have met 9 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 44%. 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 60%, from expected goals of 1.32 for Puskas Academy and 1.76 for Debreceni VSC. Folding in 30% of that view gives 57%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puskas Academy | 10 | 40% | 30% | 40% |
| Debreceni VSC | 10 | 50% | 40% | 60% |
Our numbers give this match a 69% chance of at least one goal before half-time and 40% of two or more. The NB I rates, last season and this season combined, are 69% and 39% (this season so far: 68% with a first-half goal, from 59 games). After the break: 84% for a goal and 45% for two or more (league 86% and 48%). Puskas Academy's last 50 games had a first-half goal 76% of the time and a second-half goal 76%; Debreceni VSC's last 50, 62% and 84%. A goal in both halves: 57% (league 60%). Highest-scoring half: second 45%, first 30%, level 25% — 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: Puskas Academy season stats · Debreceni VSC season stats · NB I table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.