About PodiumOracle
Free sports predictions from public models, with each model's track record next to its numbers.
What it is
PodiumOracle covers 95 leagues and competitions: team sports, racing, golf, tennis, combat sports, cricket, rugby and sailing. For each one it rates every team, driver or player from their results, turns those ratings into a chance for each upcoming game or race, and simulates the rest of the season thousands of times to give every contender a chance of the title.
Everything is refreshed every morning, and scores update live during games where a live feed exists. Every forecast and page is free, with no account needed; Podium+ subscribers can also download every league's data as CSV files.
What's on a league page
- Games (or the next race or event): each contest's win chances, live win probability once it starts, and the weather where it matters.
- Season odds: how often each team makes the playoffs, wins its division or conference and wins the title across the simulations.
- Power (or ratings): the current ratings and how they moved over the season.
- Standings, teams, players and injuries where the league has them, and every result with the forecast it had.
- Track record: how well the model did on seasons it was never tuned on, against simple baselines and, where available, the betting market.
- Glossary and data: what every term means, where the data comes from, and the downloads.
Using the site
- Search from the box at the top of the home page (press
/to jump to it): leagues, teams, drivers and players. - Tap ☆ on a league to pin it to the top of the home page. Favourites are kept in this browser.
- Ask Podium, the assistant in the corner, about any league. It answers from the same numbers as the pages and links to where they are.
What it isn't
These are estimates from a public statistical model, not certainties, and not betting advice. A 70% favourite loses three times in ten; the track record shows how often the model's chances came true. The model knows what is in its data: late team news, a squad resting players, or a coach's plan can move a game in ways it can't see.
Read how the models work, how to read the odds, or where the data comes from.