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Serious model lab

Rolling Poisson, Elo/form, capped market overlays, totals, Asian handicap and longshot guard models tested in public.

Updated 2026-05-11 21:58 UTC. Paper-trading research only.

Generated: 2026-05-11T21:58:47+00:00 Train before: 2022-07-01 Test from: 2022-07-01

This run builds rolling pre-match Poisson, Elo/form, hybrid market overlays, Asian handicap, totals and longshot guard models. It is paper trading and backtesting only.

Anything using closing prices, closing lines or close-to-open movement is labelled diagnostic.

Market Baseline

  • Opening 1X2 log loss: 0.9991 over 23967 matches.
  • Closing 1X2 log loss: 0.996 over 23969 matches.

Strategy Results

StrategyTypeBetsP/LROIWLPushAvg oddsMax DDVerdict
Diagnostic AH line movementdiagnostic8525+367.69u4.3%448734515871.84-36.02udiagnostic
Diagnostic longshot with market movediagnostic965+68.45u7.1%23872704.635-38.73udiagnostic
Diagnostic totals price movementdiagnostic8720+96.08u1.1%4618410201.937-128.25udiagnostic
Elo/form guarded 1X2live-test4344-173.95u-4.0%1778256602.409-224.65uunstable
Hybrid market/model 1X2 cappedlive-test123-1.79u-1.5%467702.639-17.81uunstable
Hybrid market/Poisson AH openinglive-test291+15.39u5.3%144125222.0-12.24ucandidate
Hybrid market/Poisson totalslive-test688+5.88u0.9%32935902.126-27.89uunstable
Market price-shop 1X2live-test21+17.27u82.2%13803.076-3.87uexploratory
Poisson AH opening linelive-test18119-239.74u-1.3%8467844012121.969-276.97ureject
Poisson guarded 1X2live-test4879-248.95u-5.1%1753312602.771-258.53uunstable
Poisson totals valuelive-test6994-199.77u-2.9%3468352601.981-204.55ureject
Rough-patch fade proxy AHlive-test420-30.79u-7.3%176226181.964-43.30uunstable

Read

  • The market remains hard. Closing prices improve log loss over openers, which is what we should expect.
  • No standalone live model deserves to be auto-promoted yet.
  • Poisson and Elo are useful as small overlays, not as market-overruling brains.
  • Asian handicap line movement remains the best research direction, but movement is diagnostic until openers/current prices are stored live.
  • The longshot/favourite guard should stay. The rough-patch fade proxy exists to test the idea, not endorse it.

Recommendation

No standalone live model earns promotion yet. Promote the market router: store openers, paper-trade Asian handicap and DNB first, keep longshot catalyst gate, and use Poisson/Elo only as capped overlays.

Top candidates:

  • Hybrid market/Poisson AH opening: 291 bets, ROI 5.3%, live-test
  • Diagnostic longshot with market move: 965 bets, ROI 7.1%, diagnostic
  • Diagnostic AH line movement: 8525 bets, ROI 4.3%, diagnostic

Rejected / not promoted:

  • Elo/form guarded 1X2: 4344 bets, ROI -4.0%, unstable
  • Hybrid market/model 1X2 capped: 123 bets, ROI -1.5%, unstable
  • Hybrid market/Poisson totals: 688 bets, ROI 0.9%, unstable
  • Market price-shop 1X2: 21 bets, ROI 82.2%, exploratory
  • Poisson AH opening line: 18119 bets, ROI -1.3%, reject
  • Poisson guarded 1X2: 4879 bets, ROI -5.1%, unstable
  • Poisson totals value: 6994 bets, ROI -2.9%, reject
  • Rough-patch fade proxy AH: 420 bets, ROI -7.3%, unstable

Raw report: serious-model-lab.md. Machine-readable data: serious-model-lab.json.