National League, game week 6 — UK time
Your appraisal — and now the market.
Harrogate Town is new to this division, so the rank comparison rests on less than a shared season. +0.84 points a game is the venue form gap, in Scunthorpe United's favour: Scunthorpe United takes 1.84 a game at home over the last two seasons, Harrogate Town 1.00 away. Scunthorpe United scores heaviest in the 76-90+ spell and concedes heaviest in 76-90+; Harrogate Town scores heaviest in 76-90+ and concedes heaviest in 76-90+. The shapes mesh: Scunthorpe United's strongest scoring spell is exactly where Harrogate Town is softest. Averaging the two sides' own rates: over 2.5 goals in 51% of their games, both teams scoring in 60%, and a two-goal lead for one side or the other in 39%. 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 (22 of 50 and 20 of 50); a one-goal lead has not been safe in Scunthorpe United's hands -- ahead without winning in 9 of 50; a one-goal lead has not been safe in Harrogate Town's hands -- ahead without winning in 9 of 50; Scunthorpe United finds its goals latest of all -- 20 of its 81 after the 75th, and Harrogate Town concedes most in that same spell; Harrogate Town finds its goals latest of all -- 15 of its 51 after the 75th, and Scunthorpe United 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: Scunthorpe United 1.49 goals expected, Harrogate Town 1.04, from two seasons of scoring rates (25 home matches and 24 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: Harrogate Town's figures include last season in the League Two, where goals came against different company.
Our tissue: Scunthorpe United 2.10 (48%), the draw 3.85 (26%), Harrogate Town 3.78 (26%). The market's averages: 2.20, 3.45 and 2.76. The widest gap is on Harrogate Town: the market is shorter (2.76) than our 3.78 -- it rates that outcome more than we do.
Our tissue: over 2.5 2.15 (46%), under 2.5 1.87 (54%). The market's averages: over 2.5 1.65, under 2.5 2.07. The market is shorter than our number on over 2.5.
Our tissue: yes 1.99 (50%), no 2.01 (50%). The market's averages: yes 1.53, no 2.32. 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 Scunthorpe United's own 25 home matches read, one appeared in 9 (36%). In Harrogate Town's own 24 away matches read, 10 (42%). Averaging the two sides' rates -- never pooling their matches -- that is 39% 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 06:10 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.