Prediction vocabulary

These concepts are linked to the prediction common temrs, notably regarding Football.

Keyword

1 X 2

Result of a football sports match, indicating who is winning:

  • 1 means the home team won

  • X means the match is a draw

  • 2 means the away team won

BTTS

Result of a football sports match, indicating whether both teams scored at least 1 goal during the match.

Exact score (football)

Result of a football sports match, which is the exact score. Players predicting can get it right, or wrong.

Matchday

A subset of matches of an Event.

Typically in Football, when 20 teams face each other, there are 38 Matchdays of 10 Matches (19 matches per team, both home and away)

Odds

Calculated probability of an event happening. It is an inverse function of the probability : if something has 20% chance to happen, its odds will be 5.

Over / Under 2.5

Result of a football sports match, indicating whether the total of goals was above, or under, 2.5. Pooky will use this concept for the Offence and Defence attributes.

Prediction

User predicts the outcome of a Sports match. For example, in the Football game, he predicts the final score.

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