Scottish Premiership Predictions

This Week's Fixtures

Dundee Utd v Heart Of Midlothian

Scotland · Premiership Sat 31 Oct, 15:00 UTC

Both teams to score · 62% model probability

Model Goals 3.0 Corners 10.2 (4.4H · 5.8A) Cards 4.2 BTTS 62% O2.5 58%

Hibernian v Dundee

Scotland · Premiership Sat 31 Oct, 15:00 UTC

Hibernian to win · 44% model probability

Model Goals 2.7 Corners 9.6 (5.1H · 4.5A) Cards 3.8 BTTS 55% O2.5 51%

Scores 1-1 13.2% 2-1 9.2% 1-0 9%

Kilmarnock v ST Johnstone

Scotland · Premiership Sat 31 Oct, 15:00 UTC

Both teams to score · 61% model probability · odds 1.57

Model Goals 3.0 Corners 8.7 (5.0H · 3.7A) Cards 4.2 BTTS 61% O2.5 57%

Scores 1-1 13% 1-2 9.3% 0-1 9%

Odds Home 2.30 Draw 3.60 Away 2.88 BTTS 1.57 O2.5 1.67

Motherwell v ST Mirren

Scotland · Premiership Sat 31 Oct, 15:00 UTC

Motherwell to win · 52% model probability · odds 1.83

Model Goals 3.0 Corners 8.8 (4.1H · 4.7A) Cards 4.2 BTTS 59% O2.5 58%

Scores 1-1 13.9% 1-0 11.1% 0-0 10%

Odds Home 1.83 Draw 3.90 Away 3.90 BTTS 1.57 O2.5 1.62

Rangers v Aberdeen

Scotland · Premiership Sat 31 Oct, 15:00 UTC

Rangers to win · 61% model probability

Model Goals 3.3 Corners 11.2 (6.2H · 5.0A) Cards 4.1 BTTS 60% O2.5 63%

Scores 1-1 10% 2-1 9.9% 2-0 9.1%

Falkirk v Celtic

Scotland · Premiership Sun 1 Nov, 13:00 UTC

Celtic to win · 61% model probability · odds 1.45

Model BTTS 63% O2.5 67%

Scores 1-1 9.8% 1-2 9.1% 2-2 6.8%

Odds Home 5.00 Draw 5.50 Away 1.45 BTTS 1.62 O2.5 1.44

Dundee Utd v Motherwell

Scotland · Premiership Sat 7 Nov, 15:00 UTC

Both teams to score · 62% model probability · odds 1.53

Model BTTS 62% O2.5 59%

Odds Home 2.00 Draw 3.70 Away 3.20 BTTS 1.53 O2.5 1.62

ST Johnstone v Dundee

Scotland · Premiership Sat 7 Nov, 15:00 UTC

ST Johnstone to win · 52% model probability · odds 1.80

Model BTTS 56% O2.5 55%

Odds Home 1.80 Draw 3.60 Away 4.00 BTTS 1.70 O2.5 1.73

Aberdeen v Hibernian

Scotland · Premiership Sat 7 Nov, 17:45 UTC

Both teams to score · 59% model probability · odds 1.62

Model BTTS 59% O2.5 55%

Odds Home 2.35 Draw 3.50 Away 2.70 BTTS 1.62 O2.5 1.73

ST Mirren v Rangers

Scotland · Premiership Sat 7 Nov, 20:00 UTC

Rangers to win · 69% model probability · odds 1.30

Model BTTS 55% O2.5 64%

Odds Home 7.50 Draw 5.50 Away 1.30 BTTS 1.80 O2.5 1.50

Current Table

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts	Form
1	Celtic	11	9	1	1	19	28	DWWWL
2	Rangers	11	7	3	1	10	24	DWDWW
3	Heart Of Midlothian	11	6	2	3	7	20	DWLWD
4	Dundee	11	5	2	4	4	17	WLDWW
5	Dundee Utd	11	4	4	3	0	16	DWDWW
6	Falkirk	11	4	3	4	1	15	WWWLD
7	ST Mirren	11	4	2	5	-7	14	DWLLL
8	ST Johnstone	11	3	4	4	-4	13	DLDWD
9	Aberdeen	11	3	2	6	-2	11	LLWLD
10	Motherwell	11	2	3	6	-7	9	DLLLL
11	Hibernian	11	2	2	7	-6	8	DLLLD
12	Kilmarnock	11	2	2	7	-15	8	LLWLD

Betting the Scottish Premiership in 2026/27

The Scottish Premiership presents a bettor with two different leagues wearing one badge. Fixtures involving the Old Firm are priced short, watched closely and rarely leave value on the table in the match result. The other half of the division — ten clubs separated by far less than the table suggests — behaves much more like the English Championship: competitive, drawish, and covered with far less bookmaker attention. Almost everything we publish in this league comes from that second category.

Structurally, Scotland's top flight is a 38-game season with a twist nothing else we cover has: after 33 rounds the division splits into a top and bottom six. The split changes incentives sharply in April and May — bottom-six sides fighting relegation against opponents with nothing to play for, top-six clubs recalibrating around European places — and the model's opposition-adjusted ratings handle that better than season-long averages do, because it weights who you played, not just how you did.

Goals sit in the mid-2s across the division, though Old Firm fixtures against the bottom half inflate the average; strip those out and the rest of the league is lower-scoring and tighter than the headline number implies. Home advantage is solid, and winter conditions — genuine winter, on some challenging surfaces — nudge scoring down from December to February.

How the model handles it

The two-club problem is really a pricing problem. When a dominant side visits a mid-table club at 1.25, the match result is unbettable, but the goals lines, correct score and both-teams-to-score markets still have to spread probability across real uncertainty — and that is where the model finds its Scottish value. In the ten-club league within the league, straightforward match-result value appears regularly, especially early season when European qualifiers force weakened domestic line-ups that the market is slow to price.

The usual early-2026/27 caveat applies: ratings lean on last season until around six rounds accumulate, with promoted sides carrying the widest uncertainty. Every selection is archived at kickoff, settled at publication odds, and published in full on the model results page.