2. Bundesliga · Germany · Regular Season - 2

1. FC Kaiserslautern–Karlsruher SC

0–0

HT 0–0

Kick-off: Saturday, 15 August 2026 at 18:30
Status: Match Finished
Venue: Fritz Walter Stadion, Kaiserslautern

What the model said, and what happened

Ended level — we gave the draw 24%

This verdict goes into the public record unchanged; we do not filter out the ones we get wrong. The model's track record

Match statistics

Match statistics
1. FC Kaiserslautern		Karlsruher SC
11	Shots	13
3	Shots on target	8
8	Shots inside the box	5
8	Goalkeeper saves	2
4	Corners	11
1	Offsides	1
51%	Possession	49%
378	Passes	363
290	Accurate passes

What we expected, and what happened

Expected goals before kick-off: 1. FC Kaiserslautern 1.93 · Karlsruher SC 1.30. On the pitch: 0-0.
Shots 1. FC Kaiserslautern 11 · Karlsruher SC 13; on target 3 and 8.

Referee

Richard Hempel, Germany→

5.80

yellows per match

0.40

reds per match

matches of data

5 matches is a small sample — these averages are noisy and should not be read as a tendency.

Model prediction

Why this prediction?

The model puts the most likely outcome at 51.9%: “1. FC Kaiserslautern to win”. Second comes “Karlsruher SC to win” at 24.2%.
Behind that distribution are the expected goals: 1.93 for 1. FC Kaiserslautern, 1.30 for Karlsruher SC.
The highest double chance value is 76.2% (12 — any result other than a draw).
These values were computed from 1,238 past matches.

This is a prediction, not a guarantee; a probability is not a certainty.

These sentences are built by a fixed template; every number in them comes straight from the model's computation, none invented while the text was written.

1. FC Kaiserslautern to win51.9%

Draw23.8%

Karlsruher SC to win24.2%

When the model has said 50–55% in the past, 1,337 of 2,542 predictions were correct (52.6%). Accuracy record →

12	Fouls	19

3	Yellow cards	3

0	Red cards	0

First half

Actual: 0–0

1. FC Kaiserslautern lead at half-time39.3%

Level at half-time40.1%

Karlsruher SC lead at half-time20.6%

First-half double chance

1X — 1. FC Kaiserslautern ahead or level79.4%

12 — not level at half-time59.9%

X2 — level or Karlsruher SC ahead60.7%

These values are not a fraction of the full-match prediction; they come from a separate model trained on the first-half scores of 1238 matches. Its edge over the base rate is markedly smaller than the full-match model's — the measured figure is on the accuracy record. Read them more cautiously. First-half goal markets are not published because they failed to beat the base rate.

Expected fouls and corners

Fouls

1. FC Kaiserslautern: at least 10Actual: 12
Karlsruher SC: at least 12Actual: 19

Corners

1. FC Kaiserslautern: at least 4Actual: 4
Karlsruher SC: at least 4Actual: 11

These figures are set to hold in at least 60% of matches; in the rest the count comes in below them. No upper bound is stated — we make no "at most" claim. Yellow cards were measured and are not published: there our model did not beat the historical average.

What these probabilities rest on

Expected goals comes out of a team's attack weighed against its opponent's defence. A strong attack is damped when it meets a strong defence — which is why comparing the ratings on their own is misleading.

How many goals 1. FC Kaiserslautern score1.93

Attack: 1. FC Kaiserslautern score close to the league average.

Opponent's defence: Karlsruher SC concede 16% more than the league average, which pushes the expectation up.

Result: These two effects give an expectation of 1.93 goals (including home advantage).

How many goals Karlsruher SC score1.30

Attack: Karlsruher SC score close to the league average.

Opponent's defence: 1. FC Kaiserslautern's defence is close to the league average (1.01×), so it doesn't move the expectation much.

Result: These two effects give an expectation of 1.30 goals (including the away penalty).

Most likely scorelines

1–111.1%2–110.6%2–07.3%

A single scoreline is always less likely than an outcome: “home win” is the sum of 1-0, 2-0, 2-1 and dozens more. So the most likely single score can be a draw while the most likely outcome is a home win; the two do not contradict each other.

Week 2 of the season. This prediction was computed from previous seasons. Summer transfers, budget changes and squad rebuilds aren't in the ratings yet — the model can only see that a team has been rebuilt once new results come in.

We measured this: the bias is only pronounced in the opening week. In this week the model's overall accuracy does not separate from the rest of the season — that is, we found no measurable flaw. The one tendency across all opening weeks is that home wins are called slightly too often (said 43.0%, got 41.9%; n=583).

This sample is small and not statistically established, which is why we do not correct the model for it. The correction we tried (pulling probabilities toward the league average) didn't win on holdout, so it wasn't added. Read opening-week predictions with a little more caution.