Scottish Premiership, game week 11 — UK time
Your appraisal — and now the market.
St. Johnstone 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 St. Johnstone's favour: St. Johnstone takes 2.04 a game at home over the last two seasons, Motherwell 1.21 away. St. Johnstone scores heaviest in the 16-30 spell and concedes heaviest in 46-60; Motherwell scores heaviest in 16-30 and concedes heaviest in 61-75. Averaging the two sides' own rates: over 2.5 goals in 45% of their games, both teams scoring in 46%, and a two-goal lead for one side or the other in 36%. On the record this leans a tight match.
If the pattern holds -- and a pattern is a shape, not a promise: the first blow is even money on the record (24 of 46 and 26 of 48); a one-goal lead has not been safe in Motherwell's hands -- ahead without winning in 12 of 48.
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: St. Johnstone 1.68 goals expected, Motherwell 1.02, from two seasons of scoring rates (23 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: St. Johnstone's figures include last season in the Scottish Championship, where goals came against different company.
Our tissue: St. Johnstone 1.90 (53%), the draw 4.13 (24%), Motherwell 4.34 (23%). The market's averages: 2.47, 3.45 and 2.58. The widest gap is on Motherwell: the market is shorter (2.58) than our 4.34 -- it rates that outcome more than we do.
Our tissue: over 2.5 1.97 (51%), under 2.5 2.03 (49%). The market's averages: over 2.5 1.80, under 2.5 2.00. Close to our view -- no argument either way.
Our tissue: yes 1.92 (52%), no 2.09 (48%). The market's averages: yes 1.62, no 2.15. 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 St. Johnstone's own 23 home matches read, one appeared in 8 (35%). In Motherwell's own 24 away matches read, 9 (38%). Averaging the two sides' rates -- never pooling their matches -- that is 36% 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 09:03 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.