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Houston Dynamo FC II 0–2 Minnesota United II

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Our backtest says that, with the sharp market making Houston Dynamo FC II the most likely outcome at 58% (fair odds 1.73), Unibet offered 1.81, a gap of +4.3% above the fair price (Strong value). This was reconstructed on 26 September 2026, not recorded at the time. Recent form — Houston Dynamo FC II: DDLWL; Minnesota United II: DDLLW.

After the whistle

What the market said before kick-off

  • Houston Dynamo FC II win 58% did not happen
  • Draw 21% did not happen
  • Minnesota United II win 21% happened
  • Backtest flag (reconstructed afterwards, not recorded at the time): 1 · Houston Dynamo FC II @ 1.81 (Unibet) Lost

CLV +5.8% vs the fair close. One flag on its own says little; the rule is judged on all of them.

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.

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

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 opportunity before kick-off Strong value

1 Houston Dynamo FC II @ 1.81
Bookmaker Unibet
Price observed
Rule would have fired (backtest) @ 1.81 (Unibet) · backtest — reconstructed afterwards
Market 1X2 (match result)
Availability and exact price varied by country and over time.
Fair price 1.74
Unibet 1.81
Market Gap +4.3%
Confidence High
Model agreement Medium

Confidence reflects only the sharp probability of the selection: high from 50%, medium from 40%, low below. It says how likely the result is, not how big the price gap is. Model agreement shows how close our own model is to the sharp market on this selection — when it is Low, the market and our model disagree, so treat the flag with more caution.

Value flag result Lost · 1 -1.00u

Market discrepancy: before kick-off, Houston Dynamo FC II (1) was priced at 1.81 by a soft bookmaker, above the fair price of 1.74 — a +4.3% gap. An observation about the price, not an instruction to bet.

A single result where a bookmaker pays above the fair price — separate from the main prediction below.

Most likely result

1 Home win 58% · as recorded
1X2
Sharp, recorded58%21%21%
Other estimates
Our model47%28%26%

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) 1.73
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 1.65 / 4.13 / 4.07
Pick result (single or double chance) Lost · 2

Value lifecycle Settled

Would have been flagged (backtest) ·
1 Houston Dynamo FC II · soft 1.81 (Unibet) · fair 1.74 · edge +4.3%
Opening sharp
1.65
At close
1.71 · CLV +5.8%
Result
Lost -1.00u Backtest

“Detected” is the moment the flag was first shown on the site and written to our ledger (recorded live since 26 September 2026). For earlier matches the flag was reconstructed afterwards from the prices we had stored, and the time shown is when the rule would have fired: a backtest, not a live record. When the gap closes, we say so instead of pretending the value is still there.

Match context

Houston Dynamo FC II averaged 1.6 goals scored and 1.6 conceded per game over their last 5 matches in our results database; Minnesota United II averaged 1.2 and 1.4 over 5.

Since opening around 1.65, the sharp market price on Houston Dynamo FC II has drifted to 1.71 — the market has moved against this outcome.

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

Why this price?

Houston Dynamo FC II
D D L W L
avg 1.6 scored · 1.6 conceded (last 5)
Minnesota United II
D D L L W
avg 1.2 scored · 1.4 conceded (last 5)

Form: most recent match first.

Recent head-to-head
05 Jul 2026 Houston Dynamo FC II 4–0 Minnesota United II
17 May 2026 Minnesota United II 1–1 Houston Dynamo FC II
03 Aug 2025 Minnesota United II 2–2 Houston Dynamo FC II
13 Jun 2025 Minnesota United II 4–1 Houston Dynamo FC II
31 Mar 2025 Houston Dynamo FC II 1–3 Minnesota United II

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 1.65
Pinnacle closing odds (with margin) 1.63
Prediction CLV +1.2%
Result Lost
Value-bet record

Backtest: reconstructed on 26 September 2026 by applying today’s rule to the prices stored before kick-off. It was not shown in this form at the time; its seal was created at the reconstruction, which for matches already played was after the match.

Value selection 1 · Houston Dynamo FC II
Odds when the rule would have fired (reconstructed) 1.81
Fair odds 1.74
Fair closing odds (Pinnacle, margin removed) 1.71
Value CLV +5.8%
Profit (units) -1.00
Result Lost
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint 7f03f3f80bf09199

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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