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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
Brentford26.2%3.82
Draw27.6%3.63
Man City46.3%2.16
Double chance
Brentford or draw53.7%1.86
Brentford or Man City72.4%1.38
Draw or Man City73.8%1.35
Draw no bet
Brentford36.1%2.77
Man City63.9%1.57
A draw returns the stake, so these prices exclude it.
Win to nil
Brentford13.6%7.37
Man City25.5%3.92
Clean sheet
Brentford22.1%4.52
Man City34.0%2.94
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.
Underlying expected goals-1.30 net xG per match
Favours MCI. BRE -0.33, MCI +0.97 across the form window — results are noisier than the chances behind them
Team rating gap-181 Elo
Favours MCI. BRE 1559 against MCI 1740, 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 form1.20 against 2.40 points per game
Favours MCI. last 5 and 5 completed matches: DLDWD against LWWWW
Unavailable players16% home against 26% away xG missing
Favours BRE. 9 out and 4 doubtful for BRE, 2 out and 5 doubtful for MCI; measured as the share of recent expected goals those players contributed
Home advantage+60 Elo equivalent
Favours BRE. 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
Ch 04 · Comparison
Both sides
BRE
DLDWD
12 Sept – 25 Oct
MCI
WWWWL
13 Sept – 24 Oct
1.20Points per game2.40
9Goals for13
7Goals against7
7.12Expected goals11.69
1,559Elo1,740
Head to head over 10 meetings in the seasons held (Premier League from 2021-22, Championship from 2024-25): BRE 2, drawn 1, MCI 7. 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
Brentford
16.2% xG out
Share of attacking output is what moves the number, so it is shown rather than implied.
JaneltMIDsuspended0%3.7% xG
Suspended until 31 Oct
CarvalhoMIDinjured0%3.0% xG
Knock - Expected back 23 Nov
YarmoliukMIDsuspended0%1.3% xG
Suspended until 8 Nov
Van den BergDEFinjured0%1.1% xG
Groin injury - Unknown return date
JensenMIDinjured0%0.9% xG
Unspecified injury - Expected back 10 Oct
HenryDEFinjured0%
Hip injury - Unknown return date
DasilvaMIDinjured0%
Hamstring injury - Unknown return date
FuroFWDinjured0%
Unspecified injury - Unknown return date
MilamboMIDinjured0%
Knee injury - Unknown return date
SchadeMIDdoubtful75%14.8% xG
Shoulder injury - 75% chance of playing
and 3 more
Ch 06 · Availability
Man City
26.0% xG out
Share of attacking output is what moves the number, so it is shown rather than implied.
FodenMIDsuspended0%12.4% xG
Suspended until 17 Oct
SemenyoMIDinjured0%1.9% xG
Knee injury - Unknown return date
HaalandFWDdoubtful75%35.8% xG
Unspecified injury - 75% chance of playing
O'ReillyDEFdoubtful75%6.7% xG
Back injury - 75% chance of playing
DokuMIDdoubtful75%3.8% xG
Calf injury - 75% chance of playing
Matheus N.DEFdoubtful75%0.8% xG
Unspecified injury - 75% chance of playing
KovačićMIDdoubtful75%
Unspecified injury - 75% chance of playing
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