Austin Bold vs Colorado Springs — USL Championship 2018
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 42+ matches
Austin Bold51%
Colorado Springs26%✓ Correct in 50 of 100 matches — 6 more than always backing the home side
The model picks a winner (home or away) for each finished match using only pre-kickoff data, then checks it against the real result: 49.7% correct across 106,786 matches, vs 44.3% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.7% correct · Away picks 47.3% correct
Football matches only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Expected goals in this match
What is xG?
Every shot is scored 0–1 by how likely it is to be a goal from that spot — a chance in the middle of the box ≈ 0.4, a long shot from a tight angle ≈ 0.03, a penalty ≈ 0.76. Add them up over a match and that is the xG.
The scoreline can lie: you can win 1-0 on a fluke while creating half the chances. xG shows who was really closer to scoring — and over a season it predicts results better than goals alone.
Austin Bold creates 49% more chances
Season form · 42 home / 133 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Over57
- Under43
3+ goals likely
Both teams score
- Yes58
- No42
Both teams likely to score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Austin Bold ↓
Most likely 1–1 (11%) · grid covers 96% of scorelines
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Total goals
Double chance
Winning margin
Team goals
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Combos
Model probabilities, not odds. For information only.
How is this calculated?
Every number below comes from this match — nothing is made up.
Recent form of each side
Austin Bold at home — creates 1.71, concedes 1.14 · 42 matches
Colorado Springs away — creates 1.23, concedes 1.82 · 133 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Austin Bold attack 1.71 + Colorado Springs defence 1.82 → ÷2 → 1.77
Colorado Springs attack 1.23 + Austin Bold defence 1.14 → ÷2 → 1.19
Each side's attack is blended with the other's defence, then averaged.
Chance of every scoreline
From those two numbers a Poisson distribution gives the probability of each exact score — the grid shown above.
The answer to "why 51%?"
Austin Bold at 51% is simply the biggest of the three — that is the pick.
What the model can't see
It reads only the stats of recent matches. It knows nothing about:
- injuries & suspensions
- the matchday lineup
- motivation — cup, relegation, a title race
- weather & pitch condition
- in-game coaching decisions
So 51% does not mean "Austin Bold will win" — it means "on the available stats, this is the most likely result."
Statistical model based on expected goals (xG). For informational purposes only.
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Austin Bold host Colorado Springs on Wednesday, 23 June 2021 at 01:00. The match is part of the USL Championship 2018/2019 season.
USL Championship: Austin Bold 2–3 Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs beat Austin Bold 3-2 in USL Championship on June 23, 2021.
Goals: F. Garcia (3'), H. Barry (16' pen, 56'), S. Okoli (30' pen), D. Toure (90').
The match was played at Bold Stadium in Austin.