About Ballileo

I’m Ștefan-Cristian Tudorache, a graduate of Politehnica University of Bucharest. Ballileo started as my bachelor’s thesis on the statistical modelling and prediction of football matches. I later rebuilt it from scratch as a public site. It’s my personal project, with no company or bookmaker behind it.

For matches in 26 competitions, Ballileo estimates 14 statistics before kickoff: goals, shots, corners, cards, fouls, possession and more. You can change the starting XI and the referee and see how the estimate moves.

Match data comes from API-Football. The estimates are calculated by AI models that learned from more than 60,000 matches played since 2015. The pages and numbers are generated automatically from this data, not written by hand. How it works explains how to read them.

A match’s estimate is frozen at kickoff. After the match, its page shows the estimate next to the real numbers, so you can judge how close it was.

Ballileo isn’t a betting site: it doesn’t recommend bets, show odds or have ties to bookmakers. It isn’t affiliated with any club, league or competition. The numbers are statistical estimates, not certainties. Today the site is free, with no accounts and no ads.

You can write to me at contact@ballileo.com. You can also find me on LinkedIn and GitHub.