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Portland Timbers II St. Louis City II

The sharp market makes St. Louis City II the most likely outcome at 38% — fair odds of 2.66. Bet365 offers 2.70, a market gap of +1.5% above the fair price, which is where we flag value (Micro-edge · monitor only). Confidence is Low and model agreement is Medium. Recent form — Portland Timbers II: DWDWD; St. Louis City II: WDDWD.

Value opportunity Micro-edge · monitor only

2 St. Louis City II @ 2.70
Bookmaker Bet365
Price captured
Market 1X2 (match result)
Availability and exact price vary by country and over time.
Fair price 2.66
Bet365 2.70
Edge Score12
Confidence: Low
Edge at detection +1.5% @ 2.70 ·
Edge right now +1.5% @ 2.70 ·

The gap has held since we flagged it: both the sharp benchmark and the soft price are re-read continuously, and the edge above is computed on the current market, not on the odds we saw at detection.

Value-bet result Lost · 2 -1.00u

Market discrepancy: St. Louis City II (2) is priced at 2.70 by a soft bookmaker, above the fair price of 2.66 — a +1.5% gap. An observation about the price, not an instruction to bet.

The gap is smaller than 1.5% — likely to vanish in rounding, latency or line movement. We log it for transparency, but it is not a strong signal.

A single-outcome value bet — separate from our safe prediction below.

Our prediction

1/2 Home or away 75%

When no single result is likely enough, our pick covers the two most probable outcomes (double chance).

Market probability (1 / X / 2) 37% / 25% / 38%
Our model (1 / X / 2) 47% / 27% / 26%
Fair odds (pick) 1.33
Market odds (Pinnacle) 2.47 / 3.58 / 2.46
Best soft odds (1 / X / 2) 2.52 / 3.60 / 2.70
Edge Score 12
Market Gap +1.5%
Confidence Low
Model agreement Medium

Confidence reflects the sharp probability and the size of the price gap. 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.

Prediction result Lost · X

Value lifecycle Settled

Detected ·
2 St. Louis City II · soft 2.70 (Bet365) · fair 2.66 · edge +1.5%
Opening sharp
2.46
At close
2.63 · CLV +2.7%
Result
Lost -1.00u 🔒 Externally verified

“Detected” is when we logged the opportunity before kick-off — not the theoretical first second it appeared. Sharp and soft odds are tracked from our snapshots; when the gap closes, we say so instead of pretending the value is still there.

Match context

The last 3 head-to-head meetings we tracked split 2–0–1 (Portland Timbers II wins – draws – St. Louis City II wins).

Portland Timbers II scored 1.4 and conceded 0.6 across their last 5 matches in our results database; St. Louis City II scored 1.4 and conceded 0.8 in 5.

Since opening around 2.46, the sharp market price on St. Louis City II has drifted to 2.63 — 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.

Market-relevant trends

Portland Timbers II is unbeaten in its last 5 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on Portland Timbers II here.
St. Louis City II is unbeaten in its last 5 matches.
No value Already reflected in the fair price — no value on St. Louis City II here.

We show the trend and whether it is already in the price. Most sites show the streak and let you assume you should bet it.

Why this price?

Portland Timbers II
D W D W D
avg 1.4 scored · 0.6 conceded (last 5)
St. Louis City II
W D D W D
avg 1.4 scored · 0.8 conceded (last 5)
Recent head-to-head
18 Jul 2026 St. Louis City II 1–2 Portland Timbers II
05 Oct 2025 Portland Timbers II 2–1 St. Louis City II
24 May 2025 St. Louis City II 6–3 Portland Timbers 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.

🔒 Immutable record

Logged before kick-off
Prediction record
Pick 1/2 · Home or away
Odds when logged 1.23
Closing odds 1.23
Prediction CLV +0.2%
Result Lost
Value-bet record
Value selection 2 · St. Louis City II
Odds when flagged 2.70
Fair odds 2.66
Closing odds 2.63
Value CLV +2.7%
Profit (units) -1.00
Result Lost
Record hash — integrity fingerprint f7facd6d935d6792

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.

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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