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Championship · 25/26

Birmingham City v Hull City

How the SharpXI model rated this Championship fixture — every call it made on shots, cards and fouls, set against what actually happened on the day.

Birmingham City2 – 3 Hull City 18 Oct 2025
12/14
of the model's most-confident calls landed. Every one was published before kick-off and priced the same way as every other fixture. A single game is noise, not a verdict — the season-long record is on the track record.

Before Birmingham City lost to Hull City 2–3, the SharpXI model made 14 confident calls on the player markets and 12 landed — the strongest being Keshi Anderson for 1+ fouls drawn (81%, had 2). Its clearest miss: Matt Crooks for 1+ fouls committed (85%, had 0). Every probability here was published before kick-off, priced the same way as every other fixture — one game is noise, not a verdict.

Match officials
Ruebyn Ricardo refereed this match 4.84cards/game 1.21×vs league 25games
Ruebyn Ricardo's card record →
See the full player stats boardBoth likely XIs side by side — hit rates over your chosen window, add to your slip

Player markets — the model's calls

Each probability is the model's own number for the headline (1+) line, before any bookmaker margin. The result column is what the player actually recorded.

PlayerMarketLineModel ActualResult
Matt Crooks fouls committed 1+ 85% 0
Keshi Anderson fouls drawn 1+ 81% 2
Jay Stansfield shots total 1+ 79% 4
Jay Stansfield fouls committed 1+ 79% 1
Joe Gelhardt shots total 1+ 79% 4
Joe Gelhardt fouls drawn 1+ 78% 4
Kyle Joseph fouls committed 1+ 77% 1
Darko Gyabi fouls committed 1+ 77% 1
Demarai Gray shots total 1+ 76% 3
Kyogo Furuhashi shots total 1+ 76% 3
Liam Millar shots total 1+ 74% 3
Darko Gyabi fouls drawn 1+ 74% 0
David Akintola shots total 1+ 74% 1
David Akintola fouls committed 1+ 72% 2

How these are modelled: Fouls committed · Fouls drawn · Shots total

Team & match markets

MarketLineModel ActualResult
BTTS Yes 44% Yes
Match goals O2.5 39% 5 goals
Match cards O4.5 34% 11 cards

How these are modelled: BTTS · Match cards

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Frequently asked

How did the SharpXI model do on Birmingham City v Hull City?

12 of its 14 most-confident calls landed. The board on this page lists every one with the model's pre-kickoff probability next to what actually happened, hits and misses in the same table.

What did the model get wrong on Birmingham City v Hull City?

The most confident call it got wrong was Matt Crooks at 85% for fouls committed — shown in the same table as the hits, marked with a cross. A record that hides its misses isn't a record, so we don't.

Are these probabilities hindsight?

No. Each one is the number the model produced from data available before kick-off, using the same settings as every other fixture on the site — nothing was refitted after the result. That is the only way a per-match report means anything.

Does one match tell you if the model is any good in the Championship?

No, and we'd rather say so. A single fixture is a handful of calls and mostly noise; the season-long, market-by-market record — including the markets that fail to beat a naive guess — is on the track record page.

SharpXI models probabilities from public match data; it does not take bets or guarantee outcomes. Prices are entered per leg in the tool. 18+ — please gamble responsibly.