Greenock Morton v Queen's Park

Scottish Championship, game week 11 — UK time

Your appraisal — and now the market.

The appraisal

Greenock Morton and Queen's Park finished near neighbours last season -- 8th and 6th of 10 -- so rank alone splits nothing here. Against the block the other keeps: Greenock Morton takes 0.85 points a game, Queen's Park 1.92 -- the block form is Queen's Park's. +0.13 points a game is the venue form gap, in Greenock Morton's favour: Greenock Morton takes 1.00 a game at home over the last two seasons, Queen's Park 0.87 away. Greenock Morton scores heaviest in the 16-30 spell and concedes heaviest in 46-60; Queen's Park scores heaviest in 31-45+ and concedes heaviest in 16-30. The shapes mesh: Greenock Morton's strongest scoring spell is exactly where Queen's Park is softest. Averaging the two sides' own rates: over 2.5 goals in 41% of their games, both teams scoring in 54%, and a two-goal lead for one side or the other in 33%. On the record this leans a tight match.

How it may unfold

If the pattern holds -- and a pattern is a shape, not a promise: Greenock Morton lands the first blow more often (19 of 46 to 12 of 46); when a lead builds towards 2UP it is more often Greenock Morton's -- two goals clear in 6 of 46, against 1 of 46; a one-goal lead has not been safe in Greenock Morton's hands -- ahead without winning in 10 of 46.

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: Greenock Morton 1.06 goals expected, Queen's Park 1.00, from two seasons of scoring rates (23 home matches and 23 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.

Our numbers against the market’s

Match result

Our tissue: Greenock Morton 2.75 (36%), the draw 3.30 (30%), Queen's Park 3.00 (33%). The market's averages: 2.50, 3.20 and 2.55. The widest gap is on Queen's Park: the market is shorter (2.55) than our 3.00 -- it rates that outcome more than we do.

Over or under 2.5 goals

Our tissue: over 2.5 2.95 (34%), under 2.5 1.51 (66%). The market's averages: over 2.5 2.01, under 2.5 1.69. The market is shorter than our number on over 2.5.

Both teams to score

Our tissue: yes 2.42 (41%), no 1.70 (59%). The market's averages: yes 1.87, no 1.90. The market is shorter than our number on yes.

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 Greenock Morton's own 23 home matches read, one appeared in 6 (26%). In Queen's Park's own 23 away matches read, 9 (39%). Averaging the two sides' rates -- never pooling their matches -- that is 33% 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 07:05 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.