What changed for international football vs. club football
The engine was rebuilt for the World Cup. International football isn't club football with different shirts, it breaks differently, so the reasoning had to change.
⚽️ Club-season form doesn't carry over. Players arrive from different leagues, with no shared rhythm and little training time. The engine no longer treats club form as a clean read on how a national side will play.
⚽️ Raw qualifier and friendly stats are banned as evidence. A 6–0 qualifier against a minnow and a flat friendly tell you almost nothing about a tournament match. Those numbers don't enter the case unless they're heavily adjusted for who they came against and why.
⚽️ Intent is now a primary factor. A team chasing a group, a team already through, a dead rubber, a knockout where a draw is a real settleable outcome, the reason a team is playing shapes the read as much as the talent does.
⚽️Geography is modeled directly. Three host countries, altitude, heat, and travel between venues. Conditions get weighed instead of ignored.
⚽️ The favorite-nation trap is flagged on purpose. Glamour sides and host nations get overpriced because people bet their flag, not the football. The engine is built to notice when a price is patriotism rather than probability.
⚽️ One market only: the 90-minute result. Home, draw, or away. No "to qualify," no "to advance" just the match in front of it, and the draw always live.
Same principle underneath it all: a no-bet is a decision, not silence. Every read is public.
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