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Stalemate at Coventry's ground as both sides cancel each other out in a goalless draw.

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How It Unfolded

The points were shared at Coventry Building Society Arena, Regular Season - 31, as Coventry and Oxford United drew 0-0 in the Championship. With the result on the board, the sections below measure it against everything the model and the numbers projected in advance.

The Model vs The Result

The Poisson model went into this projecting Coventry 1.83 xG and Oxford United 0.89 xG, a combined 2.73. The scoreboard read 0-0 for 0 actual goals. Coventry fell 1.8 short of their projected output. Oxford United landed 0.9 under their projected return. Those figures were built on strength ratings of Coventry attack 1.26 / defence 0.90 against Oxford United attack 0.88 / defence 1.11, drawn from 76/76 games (CurrentSeason).

On the result, the model split it Coventry 59% | Draw 25% | Oxford United 17%, with Coventry to win its most likely call at 59%. Instead the game produced a draw, an outcome the model had rated at just 25% — a clear break from expectation and a genuine upset by the numbers.

Goals & Markets

The model rated Over 2.5 goals at 51%. The game delivered 0, so it stayed under — the opposite of the projected direction. Over 1.5 had been 77% and missed. On both teams to score, the model sat at 51% and the match did not — a miss on BTTS. Historically the two sides average 49% Over 2.5 across their same-competition games (Coventry 57%, Oxford United 42%), a base rate that agreed with today's under. Their combined BTTS history runs at 56%, which did not match the one-sided outcome.

Trading Patterns vs Reality

Coventry's trading profile (76 games, 37 home) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 58% of their matches — today it did not.

Oxford United's trading profile (76 games, 37 away) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 54% of their matches — today it did not; they fail to score in 32% of games, a blank that repeated today.

Form vs Result

On form, Coventry arrived the stronger side — 1.64 PPG against 1.05. The form guide was only half-right: the stronger side did not lose, but could not convert the edge into a win. Coventry (home/away splits) managed 0 against a 1.86 scoring average — below par going forward and conceded 0 against a 0.95 average — tighter than their form line. Oxford United (home/away splits) managed 0 against a 0.84 scoring average — below par going forward and conceded 0 against a 1.49 average — tighter than their form line.

Verdict

Grading the result against the stored data, 0 of 4 pre-match signals came in: result (miss), Over 2.5 (miss), BTTS (miss), form (miss). The data was on the wrong side of this result more often than not — a reminder that a single match sits well inside the model's variance.

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