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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 - 42, as Coventry and Sheffield Wednesday 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 2.47 xG and Sheffield Wednesday 0.65 xG, a combined 3.12. The scoreboard read 0-0 for 0 actual goals. Coventry fell 2.5 short of their projected output. Those figures were built on strength ratings of Coventry attack 1.33 / defence 0.89 against Sheffield Wednesday attack 0.62 / defence 1.43, drawn from 87/87 games (CurrentSeason).

On the result, the model split it Coventry 76% | Draw 17% | Sheffield Wednesday 7%, with Coventry to win its most likely call at 76%. Instead the game produced a draw, an outcome the model had rated at just 17% — a clear break from expectation and a genuine upset by the numbers.

Goals & Markets

The model rated Over 2.5 goals at 60%. The game delivered 0, so it stayed under — the opposite of the projected direction. Over 1.5 had been 83% and missed. On both teams to score, the model sat at 45% and the match did not — another call in the model's favour. Historically the two sides average 55% Over 2.5 across their same-competition games (Coventry 58%, Sheffield Wednesday 53%), a base rate that pointed the other way from today's under. Their combined BTTS history runs at 53%, which did not match the one-sided outcome.

Trading Patterns vs Reality

Coventry's trading profile (87 games, 43 home) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 56% of their matches — today it did not; they keep a clean sheet 32% of the time, and duly kept one.

Sheffield Wednesday's trading profile (87 games, 43 away) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 51% of their matches — today it did not; they fail to score in 40% of games, a blank that repeated today.

Form vs Result

On form, Coventry arrived the stronger side — 1.74 PPG against 0.82. 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 1.88 scoring average — below par going forward and conceded 0 against a 0.95 average — tighter than their form line. Sheffield Wednesday (home/away splits) managed 0 against a 1.02 scoring average — below par going forward and conceded 0 against a 1.79 average — tighter than their form line.

Verdict

Grading the result against the stored data, 1 of 4 pre-match signals came in: result (miss), Over 2.5 (miss), BTTS (hit), 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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