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Crawley Town vs RotherhamLeague Two 2018

Crawley Town
Crawley Town
FT
30
HT: 10
Rotherham
Rotherham
P. Mills 67'
G. Alexander 53' (pen)
B. Clarke 43'
3/24/2012League TwoLeague Two · Round 39Broadfield Stadium

Match Prediction

Statistical Prediction

Based on goals from last 19+ matches

Crawley Town42%
×Draw27%
Rotherham31%
Correct in 50 of 100 matches — 6 more than always backing the home side
Model
49.7%
Always home
44.4%

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 578,261 matches, vs 44.4% for always backing the home side.

Home picks 50% correct · Away picks 48.9% 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.

Crawley Town
1.34
Rotherham
1.10

Crawley Town creates 22% more chances

Season form · 152 home / 19 away

creates per match

Crawley Town
1.31
Rotherham
1.00

allows per match

Crawley Town
1.20
Rotherham
1.37

finishing

Crawley Town+0.00on par
Rotherham+0.00on par

Total goals

56%Under
  • Under56
  • Over44

Fewer than 3 goals likely

Both teams score

51%No
  • No51
  • Yes49

Close call

Score probability

Probability of each scoreline, %

Crawley Town

Rotherham
0
1
2
3
4
0
009%
0110%
025%
032%
041%
1
1012%
1113%
127%
133%
141%
2
208%
219%
225%
232%
240%
3
303%
314%
322%
331%
340%
4
401%
411%
421%
430%
440%

Most likely 1–1 (13%) · grid covers 98% of scorelines

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Total goals

OverUnder0.5
91%9%1.5
70%30%2.5
44%56%3.5
23%77%4.5
10%90%

Double chance

Crawley Town or draw
69%
Crawley Town or Rotherham
73%
Draw or Rotherham
58%

Winning margin

Crawley Town wins by 2+
19%
Rotherham wins by 2+
12%

Team goals

Crawley Town 1+ goals
74%
Crawley Town 2+ goals
39%
Crawley Town 3+ goals
15%
Rotherham 1+ goals
67%
Rotherham 2+ goals
30%
Rotherham 3+ goals
10%

Draw no bet

Crawley Town (draw refunded)
58%
Rotherham (draw refunded)
42%

Combos

Both score & 3+ goals
36%
Both score & under 3
13%

Model probabilities, not odds. For information only.

How is this calculated?

Every number below comes from this match — nothing is made up.

1

Recent form of each side

Crawley Town at homecreates 1.31, concedes 1.20 · 152 matches

Rotherham awaycreates 1.00, concedes 1.37 · 19 matches

Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.

2

Expected goals for this match

Crawley Town attack 1.31 + Rotherham defence 1.37 → ÷2 → 1.34

Rotherham attack 1.00 + Crawley Town defence 1.20 → ÷2 → 1.10

Each side's attack is blended with the other's defence, then averaged.

3

Chance of every scoreline

From those two numbers a Poisson distribution gives the probability of each exact score — the grid shown above.

4

The answer to "why 42%?"

Crawley Town scores more
42%
level
27%
Rotherham scores more
31%

Crawley Town at 42% 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 42% does not mean "Crawley Town 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.

Crawley
Rotherham
79'W. CummingsS. Torres
83'S. WattB. Clarke
87'S. BattG. Alexander

Crawley Town substitutes

60'S. HoskinsK. Cadogan
60'L. GrabbanG. Evans
90+3'R. CresswellM. Raynes

Rotherham substitutes

League Two: Crawley Town 3–0 Rotherham

Crawley Town beat Rotherham 3-0 in League Two on March 24, 2012.

Goals: B. Clarke (43'), G. Alexander (53' pen), P. Mills (67').

The match was played at Broadfield Stadium.