Footy Preds

About Footy Preds

Footy Preds is an independent, hobby-built project comparing three genuinely different approaches to predicting Premier League matches -- a statistical model, a machine learning classifier, and multiple AI models -- against each other and against live betting odds.

Why this exists

Most prediction sites pick one method and present it as an answer. Footy Preds is built around a different, more curious question: do these approaches actually agree with each other? Does a decades-old statistical technique (Dixon-Coles) really lose to a modern machine learning classifier, or to an AI model just asked what it thinks? Running all three side by side, and checking them against what the betting market actually prices, turns out to be a much more interesting exercise than picking a favourite upfront. The full methodology and what each model actually does is on the How It Works page.

What Footy Preds is not

It's not a bookmaker, doesn't accept bets, and isn't a guaranteed way to make money from football. Predictions are exactly that -- probabilistic estimates from three different modelling approaches, not certainties. The market comparison and odds data are for transparency and interest, not financial advice.

How it's built

Everything here is generated from real public data sources (see the full list on the How It Works page), run automatically on a schedule, with no manual intervention in the actual predictions or odds shown.

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DATA: DIXON-COLES · ML CLASSIFIER · LOCAL/CLOUD LLM · LIVE ODDS