The model's report card
Daily Day in Review recaps and round-by-round Game Week in Review write-ups — how Fipster's match predictions stacked up across every watched league, what the model got right, and what surprised it.
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Game Week in Review
One review per league, per round — the pick that came off, the one that missed, and the players who actually decided it.
- PremiershipFri 4 Sept
Lawrence Shankland and the late equaliser in Dundee gave Premiership Round 5 its sharpest edges
Fipster landed the Hibernian-Heart Of Midlothian call cleanly, missed badly at Dundee, and spent the rest of the round watching uncalled scorers do most of the talking. Lawrence Shankland was the loudest of them, while Fraser Taylor, Dylan Levitt and Alexander Lowry all turned up where the model had not pointed.
Regular Season - 5Model record 1 STAR · 4 TICK · 1 MISSRead review - Czech LigaThu 3 Sept
Sparta Praha’s 4-1 turn-up, and the round that left Fipster chasing the wrong names
Two tidy away calls landed, but most of Regular Season - 4 belonged to scorers the model had not singled out. Sparta Praha’s heavy win over Teplice was the loudest example, while Plzen and Sigma Olomouc at least kept the sheet from going completely blank.
Regular Season - 4Model record 0 STAR · 2 TICK · 6 MISSRead review - ChampionshipThu 3 Sept
Championship Round 4: Swansea’s clean hit was the rare bit of certainty in a messy weekend
Fipster found one exact scoreline and two more decent calls, but most of the round turned on scorers it had not named. Swansea’s 2-0 over Watford landed neatly; elsewhere, the model leaned too hard on home comfort and away strength, and the goals arrived from rather less polite directions.
Regular Season - 4Model record 1 STAR · 2 TICK · 9 MISSRead review - Süper LigWed 2 Sept
Dušan Vlahović blew the round open, but the model’s cleanest win came in Samsun
Süper Lig’s third round gave Fipster one exact hit and a few tidy away-win calls, but the bigger story was how often the goals came from places the model had not named. Dušan Vlahović’s hat-trick, Oğuz Aydın’s control for Fenerbahçe and a late Kocaelispor turn-up all mattered more than the pre-match neatness.
Regular Season - 3Model record 1 STAR · 3 TICK · 5 MISSRead review - Primeira LigaWed 2 Sept
Porto and Sporting did the heavy lifting, but Estrela made the round awkward
Fipster got the big away wins right at FC Porto and Sporting CP, yet the round still found room for a couple of awkward misses: Famalicao stalled at 0-0, and Nacional let Estrela turn a 2-1 lead into a 3-2 away win. The model was strongest where the favourites were ruthless; it was shakier where it assumed control would last.
Regular Season - 4Model record 1 STAR · 4 TICK · 3 MISSRead review - Serie AWed 2 Sept
José López and Kevin Viveros Rodallega did the heavy lifting; Serie A Round 24 mostly argued back
Fipster found five correct calls in Serie A Round 24, but the misses were loud enough to matter: a clean read on Palmeiras, a sharp call on Atlético Paranaense, and then several games where the model trusted familiar scorers a little too much. The round’s lesson was simple enough. The right names were often in the frame; the wrong ones were often the ones who actually finished the job.
Regular Season - 24Model record 0 STAR · 5 TICK · 5 MISSRead review - La LigaTue 1 Sept
Kylian Mbappé and Roberto Fernández made the round look livelier than the model did
Four correct calls were enough to keep La Liga’s opening round from becoming a complete mess, but the misses were loud: several tight home-win reads turned into draws, away wins, or late reversals. The best work came from spotting the right kind of control in Madrid and Espanyol; the worst came from trusting a few matches to stay politely narrow.
Regular Season - 1Model record 0 STAR · 4 TICK · 6 MISSRead review - La LigaTue 1 Sept
Jude Bellingham saved the cleanest call, while Barcelona’s scorers arrived from nowhere
Fipster landed the Espanyol-Real Madrid result exactly, but the round’s bigger lesson was that several of the goals came from players it had not flagged at all. Barcelona’s 5-0 at Elche and Sevilla’s win at Athletic Club were the loudest examples, while a couple of home-win calls slipped when late goals and penalties took over.
Regular Season - 2Model record 1 STAR · 4 TICK · 3 MISSRead review - Serie ATue 1 Sept
Donyell Malen made the round look louder than the model expected
Fipster found one clean call in a round that otherwise leaned too hard on narrow home wins and got punished for it. The best read was Torino’s 2-1 over AC Milan; the worst was underestimating how quickly AS Roma could turn a tidy 1-0 into a four-goal afternoon.
Regular Season - 1Model record 1 STAR · 5 TICK · 4 MISSRead review - Ligue 1Tue 1 Sept
Lille and Marseille landed the cleanest calls, but the round belonged to the scorers Fipster never saw coming
Five correct calls kept Ligue 1 from turning into a full-scale embarrassment for the model, yet the misses were loud enough to matter. Lille and Marseille did what was expected; Lens, Paris Saint-Germain and Paris FC did not, and the round’s biggest damage came from goals by players Fipster had left out of the picture.
Regular Season - 1Model record 0 STAR · 5 TICK · 4 MISSRead review - Serie ATue 1 Sept
Donyell Malen and the late goals that made a neat round look less neat
Fipster landed four exact calls in Serie A’s second round, but the bigger story was how often the decisive names were the ones it had not singled out. Donyell Malen, Antonio Raimondo and several late arrivals did the damage, while two narrow misses came down to over-trusting home sides that never found their footing.
Regular Season - 2Model record 4 STAR · 4 TICK · 2 MISSRead review