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Ch 02 · Book
27 markets
dixon_coles xi001-20260903
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
Ipswich Town23.7%4.23
Draw24.4%4.10
Fulham51.9%1.93
Double chance
Ipswich Town or draw48.1%2.08
Ipswich Town or Fulham75.6%1.32
Draw or Fulham76.3%1.31
Draw no bet
Ipswich Town31.3%3.19
Fulham68.7%1.46
A draw returns the stake, so these prices exclude it.
Win to nil
Ipswich Town10.6%9.40
Fulham25.7%3.89
Clean sheet
Ipswich Town16.5%6.06
Fulham31.6%3.17
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-118 Elo
Favours FUL. IPS 1396 against FUL 1514, 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
Underlying expected goals-0.53 net xG per match
Favours FUL. IPS -0.53, FUL +0.00 across the form window — results are noisier than the chances behind them
Recent form1.60 against 0.80 points per game
Favours IPS. last 5 and 5 completed matches: LWWDD against LLWDL
Unavailable players5% home against 0% away xG missing
Favours FUL. 3 out and 2 doubtful for IPS, 1 out and 1 doubtful for FUL; measured as the share of recent expected goals those players contributed
Home advantage+60 Elo equivalent
Favours IPS. 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
IPS · incl. Championship
LWWDD
25 Apr – 30 Aug
FUL
LDWLL
9 May – 30 Aug
1.60Points per game0.80
9Goals for5
8Goals against6
3.39Expected goals (2 of 5)6.90
1,396Elo1,514
Head to head over 2 meetings in the seasons held (Premier League from 2021-22, Championship from 2024-25): IPS 0, drawn 2, FUL 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
Ipswich Town
5.3% xG out
Share of attacking output is what moves the number, so it is shown rather than implied.
MatusiwaMIDinjured0%
Muscular injury - Unknown return date
PhilogeneMIDinjured0%
Ankle injury - Unknown return date
TaylorMIDinjured0%
Knee injury - Unknown return date
EmersonnFWDdoubtful75%21.3% xG
Knee injury - 75% chance of playing
FlorentinoMIDdoubtful75%
Calf injury - 75% chance of playing
Ch 06 · Availability
Fulham
0.0% xG out
Share of attacking output is what moves the number, so it is shown rather than implied.
CairneyMIDinjured0%
Knee injury - Expected back 10 Oct
De FougerollesDEFdoubtful75%
Unspecified injury - 75% chance of playing
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