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Dominant West Brom run riot with a 3-0 hammering of Hull City.

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How It Unfolded

West Brom beat Hull City 3-0 at The Hawthorns, Regular Season - 38, 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 West Brom 0.87 xG and Hull City 1.66 xG, a combined 2.52. The scoreboard read 3-0 for 3 actual goals. West Brom beat their projection by 2.1 — clinical relative to the chances the model priced in. Hull City landed 1.7 under their projected return. Those figures were built on strength ratings of West Brom attack 0.84 / defence 1.16 against Hull City attack 1.20 / defence 0.80, drawn from 83/83 games (CurrentSeason).

On the result, the model split it West Brom 18% | Draw 27% | Hull City 55%, with Hull City to win its most likely call at 55%. Instead the game produced a West Brom win, an outcome the model had rated at just 18% — a clear break from expectation and a genuine upset by the numbers.

Goals & Markets

The model rated Over 2.5 goals at 46%. The game delivered 3, so it went over — the opposite of the projected direction. Over 1.5 had been 73% and landed. On both teams to score, the model sat at 48% and the match did not — another call in the model's favour. Historically the two sides average 43% Over 2.5 across their same-competition games (West Brom 41%, Hull City 46%), a base rate that pointed the other way from today's over. Their combined BTTS history runs at 56%, which did not match the one-sided outcome.

Trading Patterns vs Reality

West Brom's trading profile (83 games, 41 home) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 57% of their matches — today it did not.

Hull City's trading profile (83 games, 41 away) set some clear expectations: BTTS lands in 55% of their matches — today it did not; they fail to score in 28% of games, a blank that repeated today.

Form vs Result

The form lines were close — West Brom 1.22 PPG, Hull City 1.35 PPG — offering no strong steer, and the West Brom win broke the near-deadlock. West Brom (home/away splits) scored 3 against a 1.29 average — above their attacking norm and conceded 0 against a 1.05 average — tighter than their form line. Hull City (home/away splits) managed 0 against a 1.22 scoring average — below par going forward and shipped 3 against a 1.17 concession average — a leakier day than usual.

Verdict

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