NB I · Saturday, 31 October 2026 · 16:00. Our rating makes this 62% 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 | 62% | 38% | Over |
| Over 3.5 goals | 40% | 60% | no pick |
| Both teams to score | 59% | 41% | no pick |
The result model puts Zalaegerszegi TE at 70%, the draw at 17% and MTK Budapest at 13%, from expected goals of 2.53 and 1.02.
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. Zalaegerszegi TE have 7 in 10 this season (2 of 4 at home), MTK Budapest 8 in 10 (3 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 62% and 65%.
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 57% and 65%.
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 61%.
Head to head. These sides have met 9 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 33%. 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 59%.
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 2.53 for Zalaegerszegi TE and 1.02 for MTK Budapest. Folding in 30% of that view gives 62%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zalaegerszegi TE | 10 | 70% | 30% | 30% |
| MTK Budapest | 10 | 80% | 30% | 70% |
Our numbers give this match a 68% chance of at least one goal before half-time and 36% 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: 87% for a goal and 54% for two or more (league 86% and 48%). Zalaegerszegi TE's last 50 games had a first-half goal 58% of the time and a second-half goal 86%; MTK Budapest's last 50, 76% and 90%. A goal in both halves: 61% (league 60%). Highest-scoring half: second 46%, first 29%, 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: Zalaegerszegi TE season stats · MTK Budapest season stats · NB I table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.