Model accuracy · 71% over last 30 days

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The calibration plot · Last 1,000 predictions

When we say 70%,
we mean 70%.

This is the chart most prediction sites won't show you. Each dot is a confidence bucket — say, predictions we made at 60% confidence. The y-axis is what actually happened. The closer to the diagonal, the more honest the model.

0.222
Brier score
Lower = better
1,000
Sample size
Recent settled
± 6.0%
Mean error
Across buckets
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The ledger

Yesterday delivered.
Today is loaded.

SETTLED · SAT 3 OCT
16W · 2L+2.2u
Martinique crestMartinique2 - 1Honduras crestHonduras
X2@ 1.20conf. 87%LOST
The New Saints crestThe New Saints9 - 0Cambrian & Clydach crestCambrian & Clydach
O2.5@ 1.22conf. 81%WON
Deportivo de La Coruña W crestDeportivo de La Coruña W1 - 2Atletico Madrid W crestAtletico Madrid W
X2@ 1.22conf. 75%WON
Pumas UNAM W crestPumas UNAM W1 - 3Tigres UANL W crestTigres UANL W
X2@ 1.20conf. 75%WON
Switzerland crestSwitzerland2 - 1Slovenia crestSlovenia
1@ 1.25conf. 73%WON
Glentoran crestGlentoran2 - 0Dungannon Swifts crestDungannon Swifts
1X@ 1.22conf. 73%WON
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A note from the model — Editor's letter

The most useful prediction is the one that tells you to sit a match out.

Most football prediction content is people getting excitedabout long shots — a 12-fold long shot at 187/1, a midweek ‘sure thing’ that finally comes in. Every other prediction site on the internet feeds that. They have to. The product is the dream.

We took a different approach. We built a model that's honest about what it doesn't know, publishes its calibration plot, and admits when its confidence is “fair” instead of “great.” Today, half our subscribers' most common action is closing the tab because there's nothing actionable. That's the product working.

If you want longshots, every other site has them. If you want a model that respects you enough to say “sit this one out”— you're home.

— The Long Shot Merchants model
30-day ledger

One slip a day. Every result on the record.

One square per day. We publish the slip in the morning and the result the day after — win or lose. Bright green = landed, red = missed, amber = void, empty = no slip ran that day.

-4.0u
Return
1u/slip · losses incl.
34.5%
Strike rate
10 of 29 settled
2.48
Avg odds
across settled slips
3 days
Longest streak
consecutive landings
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Coverage

218 leagues. Six markets. One model.

We're better at some markets than others — the table shows you exactly which.

Home Win
65.1%
697 predictions
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Away Win
63.2%
296 predictions
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Both Teams to Score
49.2%
65 predictions
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Over 2.5 Goals
62.2%
1,008 predictions
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Home or Draw
83.0%
816 predictions
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Away or Draw
84.3%
287 predictions
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