Flashscore shifts more leagues to human-edited predicted line-ups

Flashscore is expanding human oversight of its predicted line-ups feature ahead of the new season, moving six competitions from automatic mode to manual mode. The company said the change is aimed at improving accuracy in key markets as fan demand for pre-match team news grows.

Flashscore claims it averaged 1.67 incorrect players per predicted line-up across Europe’s biggest competitions during the 2025/26 season. The company said its internal benchmarking across the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and the Champions League put the “next nearest competitor” at 1.98 incorrect players per line-up, with others “between 2.01 and 2.17.”

“The system is built on a set of well-tested rules and calculations. It's not just about who played last week – we look at recent form, availability, and tactical patterns. The goal is always to give the user the most probable starting eleven based on the information we have at any given moment,” says Tomáš Pondělík, Chief Product Officer at Flashscore.

Flashscore runs predicted line-ups in two modes. For top-tier competitions, it uses manual mode where editors review, adjust and publish line-ups built from automated inputs; international tournaments are handled exclusively this way, the company said. In automatic mode, used for lower-profile competitions, the system publishes line-ups on its own and alerts editors only when it cannot confidently assign a position. Pondělík said the model uses a “player coefficient” based on recent minutes, performance ratings, injuries and suspensions, and preferred formation, with constraints such as requiring a player to have started in a specific position within the last six months.

The company also shared engagement figures for the Premier League on its platforms in 2025/26, calling it its biggest competition for fan engagement. Flashscore reported 7.14 billion match detail views between July 2025 and May 2026, with individual matches attracting “up to six million users” on average and “over 10 million users” at peak. Flashscore said Manchester City vs Arsenal in April drew “over 11 million users and more than 41 million views.”

Looking ahead, Flashscore said six competitions will shift from automatic to manual mode: Liga Profesional (Argentina), Serie B and Paulista (Brazil), Liga Portugal (Portugal), Süper Lig (Turkey) and MLS (USA). The company said it publishes around 500 predicted line-ups per week, with more than 60% of that volume concentrated at weekends.