The sharp market makes VfL Bochum the most likely outcome at 41% — fair odds of 2.42. 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 — VfL Bochum: WDDWL; Hertha BSC: LWLLD.
We flagged +1.1% on 1 on 31 Jul. The sharp market has since moved and that gap is gone — there is no value at the current price. We leave the record visible rather than deleting it.
No measurable value here — the bookmaker odds do not beat the fair price. We pass.
When no single result is likely enough, our pick covers the two most probable outcomes (double chance).
The last 2 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 1–1–0 (VfL Bochum wins – draws – Hertha BSC wins).
VfL Bochum scored 1.2 and conceded 1.2 across their last 5 matches in our results database; Hertha BSC scored 0.8 and conceded 2 in 5.
These figures come from our own tracked results and odds snapshots for this fixture — not from a generic stats feed.
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.
Logged before kick-off. The hash is an integrity fingerprint of the logged values — if any of them changed, the hash would change too. Verify in the public record →
The full record is published daily to an external, append-only public log (Git history + OpenTimestamps), so it is independently verifiable — not even we can rewrite a past record undetectably. Verify on the public log →
External independent verification has been active since 20 June 2026. Earlier records are preserved in our internal ledger but were not externally timestamped before kick-off.
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.