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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
Man Utd50.2%1.99
Draw23.6%4.25
Spurs26.2%3.81
Double chance
Man Utd or draw73.8%1.35
Man Utd or Spurs76.4%1.31
Draw or Spurs49.8%2.01
Draw no bet
Man Utd65.7%1.52
Spurs34.3%2.92
A draw returns the stake, so these prices exclude it.
Win to nil
Man Utd22.0%4.55
Spurs10.4%9.59
Clean sheet
Man Utd26.6%3.77
Spurs15.0%6.67
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+1.61 net xG per match
Favours MUN. MUN +1.34, TOT -0.27 across the form window — results are noisier than the chances behind them
Team rating gap+167 Elo
Favours MUN. MUN 1617 against TOT 1451, 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 form2.00 against 0.80 points per game
Favours MUN. last 5 and 5 completed matches: WLWWD against LLWLD
Home advantage+60 Elo equivalent
Favours MUN. 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
Unavailable players0% home against 0% away xG missing
5 out and 1 doubtful for MUN, 3 out and 2 doubtful for TOT; measured as the share of recent expected goals those players contributed
Ch 04 · Comparison
Both sides
MUN
WLWWD
9 May – 30 Aug
TOT
DLWLL
11 May – 29 Aug
2.00Points per game0.80
11Goals for3
6Goals against8
13.79Expected goals6.92
1,617Elo1,451
Head to head over 10 meetings in the seasons held (Premier League from 2021-22, Championship from 2024-25): MUN 4, drawn 3, TOT 3. 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
Man Utd
0.0% xG out
Share of attacking output is what moves the number, so it is shown rather than implied.
AmadMIDinjured0%
Unspecified injury - Unknown return date
BalebaMIDinjured0%
Ankle injury - Expected back 19 Sep
De LigtDEFinjured0%
Back injury - Unknown return date
HeatonGKPinjured0%
Hamstring injury - Unknown return date
UgarteMIDinjured0%
Knee injury - Unknown return date
MountMIDdoubtful75%
Foot injury - 75% chance of playing
Ch 06 · Availability
Spurs
0.0% xG out
Share of attacking output is what moves the number, so it is shown rather than implied.
KulusevskiMIDinjured0%
Knee injury - Unknown return date
OdobertMIDinjured0%
Knee injury - Unknown return date
XaviMIDinjured0%
Knee injury - Unknown return date
MaddisonMIDdoubtful75%
Shoulder injury - 75% chance of playing
SávioMIDdoubtful75%
Muscular 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