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Ch 02 · Book
27 markets
dixon_coles xi001-20261102
Model fair prices, computed as 1 / probability from a Dixon-Coles score matrix. No bookmaker margin is included, and no bookmaker is quoting these. A real price will be shorter than every number here.
Match result
Chelsea47.7%2.10
Draw29.4%3.40
Crystal Palace22.9%4.37
Double chance
Chelsea or draw77.1%1.30
Chelsea or Crystal Palace70.6%1.42
Draw or Crystal Palace52.3%1.91
Draw no bet
Chelsea67.6%1.48
Crystal Palace32.4%3.09
A draw returns the stake, so these prices exclude it.
Win to nil
Chelsea29.8%3.36
Crystal Palace13.5%7.43
Clean sheet
Chelsea41.2%2.43
Crystal Palace24.9%4.02
Ch 03 · Reasoning
What is driving this
computed, not generated
Computed arithmetic, not generated text. Each driver is a stored quantity: the Elo difference replayed from results, points per game over the last five matches, rolling expected goals, and each absent player's share of team expected goals.
Team rating gap+72 Elo
Favours CHE. CHE 1566 against CRY 1494, computed from stored results; an Elo-driven model scores RPS around 0.2015 on this league against roughly 0.194 for de-vigged closing odds
Recent form1.40 against 0.80 points per game
Favours CHE. last 5 and 5 completed matches: LWWLD against LLWDL
Home advantage+60 Elo equivalent
Favours CHE. the football default is around 100 Elo points, but Premier League home advantage fell during the crowdless 2020/21 season and settled lower afterwards, so the ratings carry a smaller term
Underlying expected goals+0.30 net xG per match
Favours CHE. CHE -0.39, CRY -0.69 across the form window — results are noisier than the chances behind them
Unavailable players34% home against 32% away xG missing
Favours CRY. 9 out and 5 doubtful for CHE, 7 out and 5 doubtful for CRY; measured as the share of recent expected goals those players contributed
Ch 04 · Comparison
Both sides
CHE
LWWLD
12 Sept – 24 Oct
CRY
LDWLL
12 Sept – 25 Oct
1.40Points per game0.80
9Goals for5
8Goals against11
5.53Expected goals6.97
1,566Elo1,494
Head to head over 10 meetings in the seasons held (Premier League from 2021-22, Championship from 2024-25): CHE 7, drawn 3, CRY 0. Cup ties and earlier seasons are not included, so a full-history site will show more.
Ch 05 · Market
Bookmaker prices
No bookmaker prices held for this fixture. Every price shown is the model's own fair price, meaning 1 / probability with no margin. Nobody is offering these.
Nothing held. football-data.co.uk publishes weekend Premier League prices on Friday afternoon, and The Odds API needs a key. Historical fixtures already carry closing odds, so the comparison works there.
Ch 06 · Availability
Chelsea
34.3% xG out
Share of attacking output is what moves the number, so it is shown rather than implied.
João PedroFWDinjured0%22.7% xG
Thigh injury - Unknown return date
LacroixDEFinjured0%3.0% xG
Hamstring injury - Unknown return date
JamesDEFinjured0%2.5% xG
Knee injury - Unknown return date
ChavarriaDEFinjured0%0.3% xG
Unspecified injury - Expected back 31 Oct
HatoDEFinjured0%0.1% xG
Unspecified injury - Unknown return date
MartinezGKPinjured0%
Head injury - Unknown return date
AnselminoDEFinjured0%
Unspecified injury - Unknown return date
EmeghaFWDinjured0%
Hamstring injury - Unknown return date
GittensMIDinjured0%
Ankle injury - Unknown return date
PalmerMIDdoubtful75%18.7% xG
Muscular injury - 75% chance of playing
and 4 more
Ch 06 · Availability
Crystal Palace
31.5% xG out
Share of attacking output is what moves the number, so it is shown rather than implied.
MatetaFWDsuspended0%17.2% xG
Suspended until 2 Dec
DisasiDEFsuspended0%2.8% xG
Suspended until 25 Oct
ChilwellDEFinjured0%2.4% xG
Unspecified injury - Unknown return date
Chadi RiadDEFinjured0%
Knee injury - Unknown return date
SarrMIDinjured0%
Groin injury - Expected back 8 Nov
TomiyasuDEFinjured0%
Calf injury - Expected back 8 Nov
UcheFWDunavailable0%
has returned to Getafe CF
Strand LarsenFWDdoubtful75%12.4% xG
Ankle injury - 75% chance of playing
KhalailiDEFdoubtful75%10.9% xG
Hamstring injury - 75% chance of playing
NketiahFWDdoubtful75%9.9% xG
Unspecified injury - 75% chance of playing
and 2 more
Ch 08 · Briefing
Written summary
Nothing written for this fixture yet. Briefings are generated twice a day for fixtures inside the next eight days, and rewritten only when a probability or a team-news item actually moves. The numbers above do not wait on it.
Ch 10 · Calibration
How this model actually scores
Dixon-Coles bivariate Poisson fitted to Premier League results with exponential time decay. Statistical model, no language model involved.
loses to closing market2,281 out-of-sample fixtures
Metric
Model
Market
Δ
Ranked probability score
0.2047
0.1965
+0.0082
Log loss
0.9882
0.9623
+0.0259
Brier
0.5883
0.5711
+0.0172
Accuracy
52.5%
54.8%
−2.3 pp
Lower is better for the first three. These probabilities are for reading a fixture, not for expecting profit against closing prices. What these numbers mean