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Prediction vindicated as Sheffield Wednesday edge out Swansea 0-1.

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How It Unfolded

Sheffield Wednesday beat Swansea 0-1 at Swansea.com Stadium, Regular Season - 32, 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 Swansea 1.46 xG and Sheffield Wednesday 1.56 xG, a combined 3.02. The scoreboard read 0-1 for 1 actual goal. Swansea fell 1.5 short of their projected output. Those figures were built on strength ratings of Swansea attack 0.99 / defence 1.22 against Sheffield Wednesday attack 1.22 / defence 1.10, drawn from 77/77 games (CurrentSeason).

On the result, the model split it Swansea 36% | Draw 24% | Sheffield Wednesday 40%, with Sheffield Wednesday to win its most likely call at 40%. That is exactly how it finished — the model's leading outcome was vindicated.

Goals & Markets

The model rated Over 2.5 goals at 58%. The game delivered 1, so it stayed under — the opposite of the projected direction. Over 1.5 had been 81% and missed. On both teams to score, the model sat at 61% and the match did not — a miss on BTTS. Historically the two sides average 51% Over 2.5 across their same-competition games (Swansea 53%, Sheffield Wednesday 49%), a base rate that pointed the other way from today's under. Their combined BTTS history runs at 49%, which matched the one-sided outcome.

Trading Patterns vs Reality

Swansea's trading profile (77 games, 38 home) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 54% of their matches — today it did not; they fail to score in 27% of games, a blank that repeated today.

Sheffield Wednesday's trading profile (77 games, 38 away) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 44% of their matches — today it did not.

Form vs Result

The form lines were close — Swansea 1.22 PPG, Sheffield Wednesday 1.23 PPG — offering no strong steer, and the Sheffield Wednesday win broke the near-deadlock. Swansea (home/away splits) managed 0 against a 1.24 scoring average — below par going forward. Sheffield Wednesday (home/away splits) conceded 0 against a 1.74 average — tighter than their form line.

Verdict

Grading the result against the stored data, 1 of 3 pre-match signals came in: result (hit), Over 2.5 (miss), BTTS (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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