“Do You Believe in Miracles? SV Elversberg’s Wild Ride to Bundesliga”

From regional leagues to the edge of glory, we simulate every possible path to promotion. Powered by the DeadBall Simulator.

⚽️ "With four games to go, they were not favourites.

They were not even expected.

But, SV Elversberg, a team once buried in Germany’s fourth tier, had one thing on their side:

Belief."

📈 In this video, we use DeadBall’s Fixture-Aware Football Simulator to explore a what-if storyline that football romantics dream of. What if Elversberg really made it? What sequence of upsets, last-minute winners, and rival slip-ups would be needed to pull off the impossible?

Our simulator does not just play pretend. It uses actual league standings, remaining fixtures, home/away performance, real form, team strength metrics, and fixture congestion. We simulate 10,000 seasons forward in time, updating every team’s momentum dynamically, just like real life.

For this story, we filtered out the simulations where Elversberg finishes in the top 2, then visualised the most common matchday storyline.

The result?

Not just a trailer, but the full cinematic story.

A meticulously simulated, emotionally immersive journey through every decisive match, twist, and upset.

Built entirely on data, probability, and football’s poetic unpredictability, it blurs the line between fiction and fate, and lets you witness history as it could have happened.