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Matchday 4 · Premier League 2015-16 · August 29, 2015

Bournemouth 1–1 Leicester: who deserved to win?

Bournemouth and Leicester drew 1–1. Replayed with the way both teams played, Bournemouth win 2 of 10, Leicester 4, and 4 end level. Leicester made the better chances: 0.8 expected goals to 0.3.

Full time

TeamGoalsxG
AFC Bournemouth 1 0.30
Leicester City 1 0.83

August 29, 2015 · Vitality Stadium · Referee: Neil Swarbrick

Luck index +12 Bournemouth about even for the draw

Each team’s own shots from this match, resampled into new matches 4,000 times, each a goal at its expected-goals chance: with the way both teams actually played, how often does this performance win? How the replay works

Ten replays. Bournemouth win 2, 4 end level, Leicester win 4.

  1. 1 BOU 1 LEI 0
  2. 2 BOU 1 LEI 0
  3. 3 BOU 1 LEI 1
  4. 4 BOU 0 LEI 0
  5. 5 BOU 0 LEI 0
  6. 6 BOU 0 LEI 0
  7. 7 BOU 0 LEI 2
  8. 8 BOU 0 LEI 1
  9. 9 BOU 0 LEI 1
  10. 10 BOU 0 LEI 1

The narrowest view of luck

The same match, with only the coin flips re-rolled: every shot kept where and how it was taken, its outcome redrawn at its chance (75% of finishing counts as luck), own goals at the league’s rate.

There is no betting line for this match, and no forecast from before kickoff: matches of past seasons are replayed, not forecast.

How 4,000 replays of the 90 minutes ended

Bournemouth win 16%, 44% end level, Leicester win 40%. The line is what actually happened: Draw.

Show as a table
After 90 minutes in the replaysShare of replays
Bournemouth by 3+0.4%
Bournemouth by 22.0%
Bournemouth by 113.5%
Draw43.8%
Leicester by 127.5%
Leicester by 29.7%
Leicester by 3+3.1%

Where the luck was

FinishingShotsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Bournemouth410.30+0.70
Leicester3 (1 pen)10.83+0.17

Own goals aren’t shots, so they’re counted on their own. A side above expected finished better than its chances, or met a goalkeeper on a bad day; 75% of the gap counts as luck (why that share).

The big chances, and every goal

MinuteChancexG
23'Callum Wilson scored from a shot0.21
85'Jamie Vardy scored from a penalty0.78

When it happened

Bournemouth’s chance of winning

Numbers mark the biggest luck moments, listed below.

Our in-game win probability: the score and the minutes left, with goals for the rest of the match at the league’s rates. A draw counts half, as in the replays. Shaded above the middle while Bournemouth was ahead in it, below while Leicester was.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability for
1 15' Jamie Vardy didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 3% chance +1% BOU
2 20' Max-Alain Gradel didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 1% chance +0% LEI
3 23' Callum Wilson scored from a shotFinishing · 21% chance +19% BOU
4 33' Max-Alain Gradel didn’t score from a free kickFinishing · 6% chance +1% LEI
5 82' Jeffrey Schlupp didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 1% chance +0% BOU
6 85' Jamie Vardy scored from a penaltyFinishing · 78% chance +10% LEI
7 95' Simon Francis didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 2% chance +1% LEI

Adjust the assumptions

Think finishing is more skill than we do? Change how much of it counts as luck and the coin-flip replay of the 90 minutes reruns in your browser.

Only coin-flips re-rolled

Bournemouth 9% · draw 35% · Leicester 56%

Final margin
even
Luck in goals
0.4 for Bournemouth
Luck-adjusted margin
Leicester by 0.4
Replay with same day's form
Bournemouth 16% · draw 44% · Leicester 40% unchanged: why
How much of each is luck?

0% treats it as skill, 100% as pure luck. The tick is our fit.

What counts
Flip a play

Force the other outcome, in this match and in every replay: a goal becomes a save, a chance goes in.

About these numbers

Expected goals per shot from StatsBomb’s open data; the replays, the in-game win probability and the luck shares are our own models, fitted and tested on every shot of four full league seasons and four tournaments, these matches included (methodology and validation).

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