Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Oscar Bobb’s goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed midfielders, Oscar Bobb was 0.13 goals under at home and 0.11 goals over away in 2026-27, 4 games against 5. The plain averages are 0.00 and 0.20, a difference of 0.20. Both games vs bottom-half teams were away.

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 a game over expected

A −0.24 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A −0.20 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Oscar Bobb’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 24, 2026vsChelseaL00.10
Aug 30, 2026@SunderlandL00.13
Sep 5, 2026vsCrystal PalaceL00.19
Sep 12, 2026@LiverpoolT00.06
Sep 20, 2026vsManchester UnitedT00.13
Oct 10, 2026@Ipswich TownL00.09
Oct 17, 2026vsHull CityW00.12
Oct 24, 2026@Coventry CityW10.11
Oct 31, 2026@Aston VillaT00.06

Method

  • Expected is what the opponent allowed midfielders in its other 2026-27 games, plus 0.10 for the home team (half the league’s home edge for midfielders that season), nothing at a neutral site, scaled to his share of his team’s midfielders’ goals in his games, 25%.
  • Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 68% 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.