Bulgaria First League

Ludogorets 2–1 Botev Vratsa

Final score · Half-time 2–0 · All of yesterday's results

The sharp market makes Ludogorets the most likely outcome at 77% — fair odds of 1.31. No soft bookmaker is offering more than that fair price right now, so there is no value here — the honest call is to pass. Recent form — Ludogorets: DWLWD; Botev Vratsa: LDWWW.

After the whistle

Match stats

Match statsLudogoretsBotev Vratsa
Possession %5248
Shots97
Shots on target32
Corners32
Yellow cards11
Red cards10

What the market said before kick-off

  • Ludogorets win 73% happened
  • Draw 18% did not happen
  • Botev Vratsa win 9% did not happen

Pinnacle closing price with the margin removed, next to what happened. It is the market's view, not a tip: an outcome priced at 30% happens about 3 times in 10.

Referee: Georgi Stoyanov, Bulgaria · Venue: Huvepharma Arena, Razgrad

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Line-ups, events and match stats: API-Football.

Starting line-ups

Ludogorets 4-2-3-1

  1. Hendrik Bonmann GK
  2. Joel Andersson DF
  3. Edvin Kurtulus DF
  4. Olivier Verdon DF
  5. Simeon Shishkov DF
  6. Aguibou Camara MF
  7. Ivajlo Chochev MF
  8. Alberto Salido FW
  9. Petar Stanić MF
  10. Bernard Tekpetey MF
  11. Rwan Cruz FW

Botev Vratsa 4-2-3-1

  1. Marin Orlinov GK
  2. Ivan Goranov DF
  3. Milen Stoev DF
  4. Lazar Boyanov DF
  5. Sainey Sanyang DF
  6. Iliya Yurukov MF
  7. Antoan Stoyanov MF
  8. Vladislav Naydenov MF
  9. Martin Petkov FW
  10. Kassim Hadji MF
  11. Daniel Genov MF

Pinnacle, margin removed (home / draw / away): 73 / 18 / 9% when the line-ups came out, 73 / 18 / 9% at kick-off. The price barely moved after the line-ups.

In the big leagues, line-up news is usually already in the price by the time it is official.

The most likely result is not the same as value: value is where a bookmaker pays more than the fair price, and the two can point to different outcomes.

Value check before kick-off

No value

No value was flagged for this match: before kick-off, no bookmaker price we saw beat the fair price under our rule.

Most likely result

1 Home win 77%
1X2
Sharp, recorded77%16%8%
Other estimates
Our model58%24%18%

Sharp, recorded = Pinnacle when we logged the match (it can be days old). Our model = our own estimate, which on average predicts worse than the market.

Fair odds of the pick (as recorded) 1.31
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 1.27 / 5.26 / 9.90
Market Gap —
Confidence —
Prediction result Won · 1

Match context

The last 4 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 4–0–0 (Ludogorets wins – draws – Botev Vratsa wins).

Ludogorets scored 1 and conceded 0.8 across their last 5 matches in our results database; Botev Vratsa scored 1.6 and conceded 0.8 in 5.

These figures come from our own tracked results and odds snapshots for this fixture — not from a generic stats feed.

Why this price?

Ludogorets
D W L W D
avg 1 scored · 0.8 conceded (last 5)
Botev Vratsa
L D W W W
avg 1.6 scored · 0.8 conceded (last 5)
Recent head-to-head
30 Nov 2025 Ludogorets 2–0 Botev Vratsa
25 Jul 2025 Botev Vratsa 0–1 Ludogorets
15 Mar 2025 Ludogorets 3–0 Botev Vratsa
29 Sep 2024 Botev Vratsa 0–2 Ludogorets

Recent form and head-to-head from our settled results — context behind the fair price. The price itself comes from the sharp market, not from these alone.

Public, timestamped record

Logged before kick-off
Prediction record
Pick 1 · Home win
Odds recorded for the prediction 1.27
Closing odds 1.34
Prediction CLV -5.2%
Result Won
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint 739ee63bb1a7d8ca

This hash fingerprints the prediction as recorded: teams, kick-off time, our model probabilities, the Pinnacle prices recorded for it (at logging or, if there were none, the first quoted after logging and before kick-off, which can be written in after the match) and the log time. A later edit to any of them would change it (a rescheduled kick-off changes it too). It does not cover closing prices, the result or the value-bet record above; value flags recorded live have their own seal in the public record. Verify in the public record →

Every day a snapshot of the full public record is published to a public Git repository and timestamped with OpenTimestamps. Timestamped snapshots are never overwritten and the Git history shows any difference, so a later change to a past row is visible by comparing two snapshots. The corrections file lists the corrections we announced. Verify on the public log →

Since 20 June 2026 the public record is snapshotted daily (07:40 Bucharest time: 04:40 UTC in summer time, 05:40 UTC in winter) to an external log. A prediction is externally timestamped before kick-off only if it was in a snapshot taken before the match; predictions logged on match day, or whose Pinnacle price was added after logging, first appear there after kick-off. Value flags have been recorded live only since 26 September 2026; earlier value flags were reconstructed on that date.

Methodology

The fair price comes from the sharp market itself: we strip the margin from Pinnacle-style odds — the most accurate public predictor in existence — and use our calibrated Elo + form model as a cross-check and as the fallback where no sharp price exists. Value is flagged only where a softer bookmaker prices a selection above that fair price, never on long shots (implied probability under 30%), and never beyond a plausible band. Most of the time there is no value — and we say so.

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