Reading a match row

One row on the All Matches list carries more information than any other element on the site. Once you can read it left to right, most of Tofiko stops needing explaining.

Kick-off time, or the live minute#

The first thing in the row is when the match starts, shown in the timezone you picked in the top bar. Set that once and every time on the site follows it.

If the match is in play, that slot shows the live minute instead. Rows are grouped by country and competition, so the row's league is the heading above it rather than part of the row itself. The status filters — All / Live / Upcoming / FT — decide which rows you're looking at, and the live count next to them tells you if anything is running right now.

Teams, short codes and the five form dots#

Both teams appear with a short code alongside the full name — useful when a list is dense and names are long.

Next to each side sit five form dots: the team's last five results. They're there for scanning, not for deciding. Five matches is a tiny sample, and a team can lose four narrow games to good opponents and be underrated by everyone reading the dots. Treat them as context, and let the probability do the work. How many bets it takes to know anything is a useful corrective here.

The three odds columns#

Then come three price columns — home, draw, away — the classic 1X2 market. If the three-way market is unfamiliar, the match result guide covers it properly.

Two details make these columns more useful than a plain price list:

• The previous price sits underneath the current one. You can see where the market was as well as where it is.
• An ↑ or ↓ arrow marks the direction of travel. Up means the price has lengthened since it was last recorded; down means it has shortened.

To turn any of these prices into a probability, divide 1 by the decimal odds — or drop it into the odds converter and read every format at once. Comparing that implied percentage to the model badge is the core move on this whole site.

The model probability badge#

Some rows carry a probability badge — a bare percentage such as "42%", or a named selection such as "Home 50%" or "Draw 50%". That is the model's estimate for that outcome, produced by our Poisson, Dixon-Coles and Elo ensemble.

Not every row has one, and that's expected. The odds come from the market; the probabilities come from our models; the two do not cover the same set of leagues. When a fixture is priced but not modelled, the row simply has no badge.

Two things worth keeping in mind when you read a badge:

• A model percentage is not a tip. It is one estimate to set against the price's implied percentage — the comparison that defines value betting.
• Margin-free market percentages, edges, expected goals, fair odds and the score matrix are part of the PRO analytics layer rather than the row itself. Plans and billing sets out which tier shows what.

Market chips and the legend#

At the end of the row sit the market chips — 1X2, O/U, BTTS and DC — showing which markets exist for that fixture. The legend above the list explains their three states:

• Model-backed — we have both a price and a model probability. This is the row you can actually reason about.
• Odds-only — the market prices it, the model doesn't cover it yet. Read the price, expect no percentage.
• Unavailable — no market for that fixture at the moment.

Reading the chips before you read anything else saves time: if the chip you care about is odds-only, there is no model number coming further along the row.

The save button#

Last in the row is a save/star button. It keeps the fixture to hand for later.

Saving is not betting and it is not logging. To record an actual stake and price you use + Log a pick in My Picks, which is free on any account and is what feeds your bankroll, ROI and open-bets list. Use the star for "look at this again", and the tracker for "I have money on this".

If you want to narrow the list down before you start reading rows at all — by league, by odds availability or by minimum edge — finding matches covers the filters, and the full fixture list lives on the predictions pages.