# Fylde v Hartlepool United — the Match Wizard National League, game week 15 — Tuesday, 27 October 2026, kick-off 19:45 UK time. > The wizard is price-blind: four steps on played-match facts alone, then your appraisal — and only then the market. Read it in order. Nothing here is a tip or a selection. Fylde: 14 league matches in the bank. Hartlepool United: 50 league matches in the bank, 14 from this season and the rest from last season. ## Step 1 of 4 — The table **Fylde is new to this division, so the rank comparison rests on less than a shared season. Against the block the other keeps: Fylde takes 1.86 points a game, Hartlepool United 1.20 -- the block form is Fylde's.** Step one is THE TABLE: rank against rank, and the blocks -- the table cut into a top, middle and bottom block, drawn from last season's final standings. The question is not just where each side stands but how it behaves against the company the other keeps: does it play to rank against the blocks above and below, or come apart? ### Fylde -- at home - **Where it stands:** Stands 7th of 24 after 14 games, with 23 points. Last season it played outside the leagues we cover, so we hold no standing for it. - **Its block:** New to the division this season, so it takes no block from last season's final table. - **Against today's opponent's block:** Today it faces a side from the middle block (9th to 16th). Against that block it has won 4, drew 1, lost 2 of 7 -- 13 points of 21. At home against them: won 0 of 2. Away against them: won 4 of 5. - **Across all the blocks:** Across the blocks, over the last two seasons: against the top block won 2, drew 0, lost 3 of 5 (1.20 a game); against the middle block won 4, drew 1, lost 2 of 7 (1.86 a game); against sides new to the division won 1, drew 1, lost 0 of 2 (2.00 a game). ### Hartlepool United -- away - **Where it stands:** Stands 18th of 24 after 14 games, with 15 points. Last season it finished 9th of 24 in this division. - **Its block:** By last season's final table it sits in the middle block (9th to 16th). Blocks are drawn from last season because the current table is only 14 games old. - **Against today's opponent's block:** Today it faces a side new to its division. Against that block it has won 2, drew 0, lost 3 of 5 -- 6 points of 15. At home against them: won 2 of 4. Away against them: won 0 of 1. - **Across all the blocks:** Across the blocks, over the last two seasons: against the top block won 6, drew 2, lost 8 of 16 (1.25 a game); against the middle block won 4, drew 3, lost 6 of 13 (1.15 a game); against the bottom block won 8, drew 4, lost 4 of 16 (1.75 a game); against sides new to the division won 2, drew 0, lost 3 of 5 (1.20 a game). ## Step 2 of 4 — Home and away form **+0.05 points a game is the venue form gap, in Fylde's favour: Fylde takes 1.33 a game at home over the last two seasons, Hartlepool United 1.28 away.** Step two is HOME AND AWAY FORM -- the home side judged on its home record, the away side on its away record, because those are the records that will be on the pitch. The last five reach back into last season where this season is too young to answer, and say so. ### Fylde -- at home - **Its record at the relevant venue:** This season at home: won 2, drew 2, lost 2 of 6, scoring 9 and conceding 8. - **Its last five league matches:** Newest first: lost to Boreham Wood 0-4 away; beat Scunthorpe United 2-0 at home; lost to Southend United 1-3 away; lost to Carlisle United 0-2 at home; beat Boston United 1-0 away. - **The dugout:** Every one of the 14 banked matches with a manager recorded was taken by Craig Mahon. Who picks the team today is not yet recorded this season, so a summer change of manager would not show in these figures. ### Hartlepool United -- away - **Its record at the relevant venue:** This season away: won 2, drew 0, lost 5 of 7, scoring 8 and conceding 13. Last season away: won 7, drew 5, lost 6 of 18, scoring 22 and conceding 33 -- 1.44 points a game. - **Its last five league matches:** Newest first: beat AFC Hornchurch 2-1 at home; beat Forest Green Rovers 4-2 away; lost to Tamworth 0-1 at home; lost to Harrogate Town 0-1 at home; lost to Scunthorpe United 1-4 away. - **The dugout:** The banked record belongs to the club, not one man: 3 different managers took its 15 matches with one recorded (13, 1, 1 apiece), most recently Peter Wild with 1. Who picks the team today is not yet recorded this season, so a summer change of manager would not show in these figures. ## Step 3 of 4 — Goals, and when they come **Fylde scores heaviest in the 31-45+ spell and concedes heaviest in 76-90+; Hartlepool United scores heaviest in 76-90+ and concedes heaviest in 76-90+. The shapes mesh: Hartlepool United's strongest scoring spell is exactly where Fylde is softest.** Step three is GOALS, AND WHEN THEY COME. Not just how many each side scores and lets in, but the minute bands they come in, who lands the first blow, what each side does after falling behind, and who finds goals late. A side that concedes early and scores late reads very differently from one that does the opposite, at the same goal difference. Side by side: Fylde scores most in the 31-45+ band (7 of 24); Fylde concedes most in the 76-90+ band (7 of 22); Hartlepool United scores most in the 76-90+ band (16 of 59); Hartlepool United concedes most in the 76-90+ band (27 of 75). Who lands the first blow and who lands the last is the question this step exists to ask. ### Fylde -- at home - **Goals a game:** Scores 1.7 and concedes 1.6 a game over its last 14 league matches; at home, 1.5 for and 1.3 against over 6. - **When it scores:** Of 24 scored across its own 14 matches with times recorded: 1-15: 1; 16-30: 2; 31-45+: 7; 46-60: 4; 61-75: 6; 76-90+: 4. - **When it concedes:** Of 22 conceded across its own 14 matches with times recorded: 1-15: 3; 16-30: 3; 31-45+: 4; 46-60: 3; 61-75: 2; 76-90+: 7. Its heaviest conceding spell is after the 75th minute -- 7 of 22 (32%). - **The first goal:** Scored first in 8 of its 14 read -- then won 6, drew 1, lost 1; conceded first in 6 -- pulled back 1 win and 1 draw from them. Across every match where it trailed at some stage it recovered 4 points. - **Two-goal swings:** Led by two goals at some point in 5 of its 14 read, winning 5 of them; trailed by two in 3, rescuing nothing; was ahead at some point without winning in 3. ### Hartlepool United -- away - **Goals a game:** Scores 1.2 and concedes 1.5 a game over its last 50 league matches; away, 1.2 for and 1.8 against over 25. - **When it scores:** Of 59 scored across its own 50 matches with times recorded: 1-15: 4; 16-30: 5; 31-45+: 11; 46-60: 11; 61-75: 12; 76-90+: 16. Its heaviest scoring spell is after the 75th minute -- 16 of 59 (27%). - **When it concedes:** Of 75 conceded across its own 50 matches with times recorded: 1-15: 9; 16-30: 12; 31-45+: 6; 46-60: 14; 61-75: 7; 76-90+: 27. Its heaviest conceding spell is after the 75th minute -- 27 of 75 (36%). - **The first goal:** Scored first in 20 of its 50 read -- then won 15, drew 3, lost 2; conceded first in 26 -- pulled back 5 wins and 2 draws from them. Across every match where it trailed at some stage it recovered 17 points. - **Two-goal swings:** Led by two goals at some point in 10 of its 50 read, winning 10 of them; trailed by two in 15, rescuing 1 result; was ahead at some point without winning in 6. ## Step 4 of 4 — The bookies' favourite markets **Averaging the two sides' own rates: over 2.5 goals in 60% of their games, both teams scoring in 56%, and a two-goal lead for one side or the other in 49%. On the record this leans a goals match.** Step four is THE BOOKIES' FAVOURITE MARKETS -- over and under, both teams to score, and the two-goal lead that pays the 2UP offer out early -- read from what these two sides have actually produced, with the denominator on every figure. Still no price: these are the match's tendencies, not its odds. How the counting works, once for the whole step: every figure is counted over ONE side's own matches -- Fylde's numbers over its games, Hartlepool United's over its own. The two clubs are never pooled into one denominator; where a single figure for this fixture is wanted, it is the AVERAGE of the two sides' rates, and says so. 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 Fylde's own 6 home matches read, one appeared in 3 (50%). In Hartlepool United's own 25 away matches read, 12 (48%). Averaging the two sides' rates -- never pooling their matches -- that is 49% of games. ### Fylde -- at home - **Over and under:** Over 2.5 goals in 10 of its own 14 (71%); over 1.5 in 13 (93%); over 3.5 in 7 (50%). At home: over 2.5 in 3 of its 6 (50%). - **Both teams to score:** Both teams scored in 9 of its own 14 (64%). At home: 3 of its 6 (50%). - **Clean sheets and blanks:** Kept a clean sheet in 3 of its own 14 (21%); failed to score in 2 (14%). - **Two goals clear:** Counted over Fylde's own 14 matches read: Fylde or the side it was playing that day went two goals up in 8 (57%). Fylde itself held the lead in 5, winning 5. In its home matches: one side or the other went two up in 3 of 6. ### Hartlepool United -- away - **Over and under:** Over 2.5 goals in 24 of its own 50 (48%); over 1.5 in 34 (68%); over 3.5 in 14 (28%). Away: over 2.5 in 14 of its 25 (56%). - **Both teams to score:** Both teams scored in 24 of its own 50 (48%). Away: 12 of its 25 (48%). - **Clean sheets and blanks:** Kept a clean sheet in 14 of its own 50 (28%); failed to score in 16 (32%). - **Two goals clear:** Counted over Hartlepool United's own 50 matches read: Hartlepool United or the side it was playing that day went two goals up in 24 (48%). Hartlepool United itself held the lead in 10, winning 10. In its away matches: one side or the other went two up in 12 of 25. ## Your appraisal — and now the market **Fylde is new to this division, so the rank comparison rests on less than a shared season. Against the block the other keeps: Fylde takes 1.86 points a game, Hartlepool United 1.20 -- the block form is Fylde's. +0.05 points a game is the venue form gap, in Fylde's favour: Fylde takes 1.33 a game at home over the last two seasons, Hartlepool United 1.28 away. Fylde scores heaviest in the 31-45+ spell and concedes heaviest in 76-90+; Hartlepool United scores heaviest in 76-90+ and concedes heaviest in 76-90+. The shapes mesh: Hartlepool United's strongest scoring spell is exactly where Fylde is softest. Averaging the two sides' own rates: over 2.5 goals in 60% of their games, both teams scoring in 56%, and a two-goal lead for one side or the other in 49%. On the record this leans a goals match.** If the pattern holds -- and a pattern is a shape, not a promise: Fylde lands the first blow more often (8 of 14 to 20 of 50); when a lead builds towards 2UP it is more often Fylde's -- two goals clear in 5 of 14, against 10 of 50; a one-goal lead has not been safe in Fylde's hands -- ahead without winning in 3 of 14; Hartlepool United finds its goals latest of all -- 16 of its 59 after the 75th, and Fylde 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: Fylde 1.74 goals expected, Hartlepool United 1.23, from two seasons of scoring rates (6 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. - **Match result:** Our tissue: Fylde 2.02 (50%), the draw 4.24 (24%), Hartlepool United 3.72 (27%). The market's averages: 1.68, 3.75 and 3.80. The widest gap is on Fylde: the market is shorter (1.68) than our 2.02 -- it rates that outcome more than we do. - **Over or under 2.5 goals:** Our tissue: over 2.5 1.75 (57%), under 2.5 2.32 (43%). The market's averages: over 2.5 1.45, under 2.5 2.41. The market is shorter than our number on over 2.5. - **Both teams to score:** Our tissue: yes 1.72 (58%), no 2.40 (42%). The market's averages: yes 1.53, no 2.40. Close to our view -- no argument either way. - **The 2UP fact:** 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 Fylde's own 6 home matches read, one appeared in 3 (50%). In Hartlepool United's own 25 away matches read, 12 (48%). 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. ## Half-time The HTML page reads the second half from any half-time score you give it: /football/wizard/national-league/2026-10-27/fylde-v-hartlepool-united/halftime/ Built 2026-10-26T10:02:48+00:00 from matches completed before kick-off.