Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Mark Flekken’s goals prevented at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed goalkeepers, Mark Flekken was 0.15 goals over at home and 0.55 goals under away in 2026-27, 4 games against 4. The plain averages are 0.15 and -0.55, a difference of 0.70.

4 games at home is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.

goals prevented a game over expected

A +0.70 difference in goals prevented over expected at home vs away is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up 7 times in 100.

A +0.70 difference in goals prevented at home vs away is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up 7 times in 100.

The games

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Mark Flekken’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultPreventedExpected
Aug 29, 2026@SV ElversbergL-0.910.00
Sep 5, 2026vs1. FC Union BerlinW00.00
Sep 12, 2026@FC AugsburgT-0.180.00
Sep 20, 2026vsRB LeipzigW0.810.00
Oct 10, 2026@MainzW-0.800.00
Oct 18, 2026vsSC FreiburgW-0.110.00
Oct 25, 2026@TSG HoffenheimL-0.310.00
Oct 31, 2026vsVfB StuttgartL-0.090.00

Method

  • Expected goals are this site’s model of each shot’s chance, from where it was taken, whether it was a header, and how it was set up (a cross, a through ball, a headed pass, or no pass at all), fit on the 105,024 non-penalty shots of the five leagues and the Champions League since 2024-25 and within 3% of the goals scored in each season. Penalties are left out.
  • Expected is what the opponent allowed goalkeepers in its other 2026-27 games, plus 0.00 for the home team (half the league’s home edge for goalkeepers that season), nothing at a neutral site, scaled to his share of his team’s goalkeepers’ goals prevented in his games, 0%.
  • Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about -1% of the difference the model predicts.
  • The shuffle keeps the season’s shape: the games are cut into stretches, one a 10 games, where the dates leave the least variance, each game is read against its stretch, and the sides are shuffled only inside each stretch.