Championship, game week 14 — UK time
Your appraisal — and now the market.
Wolverhampton Wanderers is new to this division, so the rank comparison rests on less than a shared season. Against the block the other keeps: Bristol City takes 2.00 points a game, Wolverhampton Wanderers 0.89 -- the block form is Bristol City's. +0.69 points a game is the venue form gap, in Bristol City's favour: Bristol City takes 1.33 a game at home over the last two seasons, Wolverhampton Wanderers 0.64 away. Bristol City scores heaviest in the 76-90+ spell and concedes heaviest in 16-30; Wolverhampton Wanderers scores heaviest in 31-45+ and concedes heaviest in 76-90+. The shapes mesh: Bristol City's strongest scoring spell is exactly where Wolverhampton Wanderers is softest. Averaging the two sides' own rates: over 2.5 goals in 46% of their games, both teams scoring in 47%, and a two-goal lead for one side or the other in 49%. On the record there is no strong lean either way on goals.
If the pattern holds -- and a pattern is a shape, not a promise: the first blow is even money on the record (18 of 50 and 16 of 50); when a lead builds towards 2UP it is more often Bristol City's -- two goals clear in 10 of 50, against 5 of 50; a one-goal lead has not been safe in Wolverhampton Wanderers's hands -- ahead without winning in 8 of 50; Bristol City finds its goals latest of all -- 17 of its 59 after the 75th, and Wolverhampton Wanderers concedes most in that same spell; the last quarter-hour is where this fixture's money is likeliest to move.
That read is built from the four steps, with no price in your ear -- the steps hold the evidence if you want the post-mortem. Now the market gets its say. Where it agrees with you it got there first; where it does not, your read and the crowd's disagree -- that is the conversation this tool exists to set up, and no measured edge backs either side of it.
The tissue is a plain goals model: Bristol City 1.48 goals expected, Wolverhampton Wanderers 0.82, from two seasons of scoring rates (24 home matches and 25 away in the bank), shrunk toward the division average. It is calibrated against nothing and claims no edge -- it exists to make your view concrete before the market speaks. Note: Wolverhampton Wanderers's figures include last season in the Premier League, where goals came against different company.
Our tissue: Bristol City 1.89 (53%), the draw 3.79 (26%), Wolverhampton Wanderers 4.82 (21%). The market's averages: 2.90, 3.41 and 2.05. The widest gap is on Wolverhampton Wanderers: the market is shorter (2.05) than our 4.82 -- it rates that outcome more than we do.
Our tissue: over 2.5 2.48 (40%), under 2.5 1.68 (60%). The market's averages: over 2.5 1.82, under 2.5 1.85. The market is shorter than our number on over 2.5.
Our tissue: yes 2.32 (43%), no 1.76 (57%). The market's averages: yes 1.73, no 2.05. The market is shorter than our number on yes.
For the 2UP offer the fact that matters is a two-goal lead for one team or the other at ANY point, not the final margin. In Bristol City's own 24 home matches read, one appeared in 13 (54%). In Wolverhampton Wanderers's own 25 away matches read, 11 (44%). Averaging the two sides' rates -- never pooling their matches -- that is 49% of games. No tissue is offered for this -- the played-match rates above are the honest read.
The market figures are the AVERAGE pre-match odds our feed records across books, not a best price -- a shaded average, so small gaps mean nothing.
Built 22:02 from matches completed before kick-off. The tissue is a model, not a measurement; the market figures are recorded averages, not offers. Nothing here is a tip or a selection.