Shrewsbury Town vs Northampton Town Prediction: a narrow Northampton Town win

The prediction

The reasoning

On the match result it splits close to evenly, 33 percent Shrewsbury Town, 29 percent the draw and 38 percent Northampton Town. That is a fixture the model will not call a winner in, and the honest read is that the value sits in the other markets rather than on the result. The model expects roughly 1.2 goals from Shrewsbury Town and 1.1 from Northampton Town, a combined 2.4, which is around the average for a competitive fixture. The most likely exact scoreline is 1-1, though at 13.1 percent that is a long shot by the nature of the correct score market. It does not publish a pick on match result, over 2.5 goals and both teams to score here, which means the numbers did not clear the bar rather than that we forgot to look. A market with no pick is the model saying it sees no edge.

Generated from the same form, expected goals and head-to-head data that produced the picks above. How the model works.

Full-time result probabilities

Expected goals

Shrewsbury Town1.23

Northampton Town1.14

Expected goals estimate how many each side should score given the chances the model projects they will create and concede.