Atlético Nacional vs Deportes Tolima
Our model puts a Deportes Tolima win at 48.6% in this Colombian Primera A fixture — a moderate lean. Expected goals run 1.54 to 2.04.
What this probability has been worth
A number is worth what it has been worth. Across 1,668 predictions published before kick-off and scored against the result afterwards, the calls we priced between 45% and 55% came in 46.6% of the time — 513 fixtures in that band. The model claimed 49.5%, so the two are within 2.9 points of each other. In this range the stated probability has meant roughly what it says.
Where we disagree with the market
Bookmakers price Atlético Nacional at 1.61, which implies about 62.1%. Our model has it at 29.5% — 32.6 points lower. That is a wide gap, and it is worth being plain about what it means: it is not a claim that the price is wrong and we are right. It means two methods that usually agree have landed far apart on this one, and only the result will say which of them read it better.
Evenly rated
There is almost nothing between these two on rating — 1495 against 1494, a gap of 1 points. Fixtures this evenly matched are where a model has least to say: the probabilities below are honest, but they are close to a coin weighted only slightly.