Matchday 32 · Premier League 2015-16 · April 2, 2016
Sunderland 0–0 West Brom: who deserved to win?
Sunderland and West Brom drew 0–0. Replayed with the way both teams played, Sunderland win 8 of 10, West Brom 1, and 1 end level. Sunderland made the better chances: 2.2 expected goals to 0.1.
Full time
| Team | Goals | xG |
|---|---|---|
 Sunderland | 0 | 2.20 |
 West Bromwich Albion | 0 | 0.15 |
Replay with same day's form
Luck index −41 Sunderland unlucky 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. Sunderland win 8, 1 ends level, West Brom win 1.
- 1 SUN 1 WBA 0
- 2 SUN 1 WBA 0
- 3 SUN 2 WBA 0
- 4 SUN 3 WBA 1
- 5 SUN 2 WBA 0
- 6 SUN 3 WBA 0
- 7 SUN 4 WBA 0
- 8 SUN 5 WBA 0
- 9 SUN 0 WBA 0
- 10 SUN 0 WBA 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.
Only coin-flips re-rolled
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
Sunderland win 84%, 13% end level, West Brom win 3%. The line is what actually happened: Draw.
Show as a table
| After 90 minutes in the replays | Share of replays |
|---|---|
| Sunderland by 3+ | 34.7% |
| Sunderland by 2 | 25.9% |
| Sunderland by 1 | 23.7% |
| Draw | 13.1% |
| West Brom by 1 | 2.5% |
| West Brom by 2 | 0.2% |
| West Brom by 3+ | 0.0% |
Where the luck was
| Finishing | Shots | Goals | Expected goals | Above expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Sunderland | 25 | 0 | 2.20 | −2.20 |
 West Brom | 4 | 0 | 0.15 | −0.15 |
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
| Minute | Chance | xG |
|---|---|---|
| 31' | Lee Cattermole didn’t score from a shot | 0.31 |
When it happened
Sunderland’s chance of winning
Numbers mark the biggest luck moments, listed below.
| # | When | What happened | Win probability for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 29' | Jermain Defoe didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 23% chance | +6% WBA |
| 2 | 31' | Lee Cattermole didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 31% chance | +8% WBA |
| 3 | 53' | Jan Kirchhoff didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 28% chance | +9% WBA |
| 4 | 54' | Jermain Defoe didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 15% chance | +5% WBA |
| 5 | 60' | Fabio Borini didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 11% chance | +4% WBA |
| 6 | 88' | Jermain Defoe didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 20% chance | +10% WBA |
| 7 | 91' | Jermain Defoe didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 12% chance | +6% WBA |
| 8 | 93' | Fabio Borini didn’t score from a shotFinishing · 10% chance | +5% WBA |
Adjust the assumptions
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Only coin-flips re-rolled
Sunderland 87% · draw 12% · West Brom 2%
- Final margin
- even
- Luck in goals
- 1.5 for West Brom
- Luck-adjusted margin
- Sunderland by 1.5
- Replay with same day's form
- Sunderland 84% · draw 13% · West Brom 3% unchanged: why
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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