Colorado Rapids v Chicago Fire — Prediction, Odds & Stats
Sunday 1 November 2026 · USA-MLS · 2627
USA-MLS
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AI prediction
ai-blend v1.0 dailyCalibrated: the model's number corrected by how often calls at that confidence have landed, out of sample (4,353 settled matches in the thinnest band), then normalised. The smaller figure is the raw model output.
Top 5 scorelines
- 1-1 12.7%
- 1-0 9.6%
- 2-1 9.0%
- 0-1 7.7%
- 2-0 7.5%
Goals
| Over 2.5 | 50.3% | Under 2.5 | 49.7% |
| BTTS yes | 54.6% | BTTS no | 45.4% |
| Colorado Rapids 1+ | 77.3% | Colorado Rapids 2+ | 43.7% |
| Chicago Fire 1+ | 70.0% | Chicago Fire 2+ | 33.8% |
Expected goals 1.49 – 1.20. Every market above is read off one scoreline distribution.
Footing
Positive factors
- Form is good: 2.40 points a match from the last five.
Risk factors
- No specific risk flags beyond the usual variance of a football match.
Why the model thinks this
The price
Colorado Rapids have an estimated 41.1% win probability, against 31.6% for Chicago Fire and 27.3% for the draw. Expected goals from the ensemble are 1.49 for Colorado Rapids and 1.20 for Chicago Fire.
Why Colorado Rapids
Form is good: 2.40 points a match from the last five.
Why the draw is live
The draw sits at 27.3%. Draws run at 25% in this competition.
Why Chicago Fire can win
Chicago Fire carry the stronger rating, 1579 Elo against 1476. Form is good: 2.20 points a match from the last five.
Key players
No player-level data for this fixture; the leagues with lineups are the big five.
Availability
No lineup on record for Colorado Rapids, so availability is unknown. No lineup on record for Chicago Fire, so availability is unknown.
The matchup, as far as the data reaches
Colorado Rapids: 61% possession, 17.4 shots a match, 7.0 faced, 0.30 xG a match from set pieces. Chicago Fire: 47% possession, 11.8 shots a match, 12.6 faced, 0.30 xG a match from set pieces.
Inputs last refreshed: matches 2026-09-05 22:20 · team_stats 2026-09-05 09:41 · availability 2026-09-05 21:03 · prediction 2026-09-05 18:39 ·
Colorado Rapids are the model's most likely outcome at 41.1%. The likeliest scoreline is 1-1 at 12.7%. Confidence 54/100, data quality 65/100. These are probabilities, not certainties: the less likely outcome happens as often as its number says.
Written from the numbers the model saw, not by a language model; nothing here is a statistic the snapshot does not hold. How predictions work.
Was this pick made in advance?
-oos is out of sample: it was fitted only on matches
played before this one, so its pick is a genuine forecast rather than hindsight.
Anything without that suffix was fitted on all available data.What the model said
| Model | Home / Draw / Away | Expected goals | Likeliest score | O2.5 | BTTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dc-xg | 1.38–1.27 | 1-1 13% | 49% | 54% |
A model whose name ends -oos was produced by the walk-forward backtest:
it was fitted only on matches played before this one, so the pick is genuinely out of sample.