The Capitals' goals at home and away
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Against what the season’s ratings expected, the Capitals were 0.43 goals over at home and 0.19 goals under away in 2026-27, 10 games against 4. The plain averages are 3.70 and 3.00, a difference of 0.70.
4 games away 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
at home
+0.43
away
−0.19
-20
A +0.62 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.
plain
3.70
3.00
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A +0.70 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.
The games
at homeaway
| Side | Date | Game | Result | goals | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | @ CAR | W | 5 | 3.08 | |
| Oct 3, 2026 | @ TBL | L | 1 | 3.32 | |
| Oct 7, 2026 | vs PIT | W | 5 | 3.32 | |
| Oct 9, 2026 | vs NYR | W | 3 | 3.23 | |
| Oct 11, 2026 | vs SEA | L | 3 | 3.44 | |
| Oct 13, 2026 | @CAR | L | 2 | 3.15 | |
| Oct 14, 2026 | vs MTL | W | 5 | 3.28 | |
| Oct 17, 2026 | vs NJD | W | 4 | 3.20 | |
| Oct 20, 2026 | vs LAK | L | 2 | 3.38 | |
| Oct 24, 2026 | vs BUF | W | 4 | 3.37 | |
| Oct 28, 2026 | vs PHI | W | 5 | 3.25 | |
| Oct 29, 2026 | @ NSH | W | 4 | 3.21 | |
| Nov 1, 2026 | vs MIN | L | 1 | 3.17 | |
| Nov 3, 2026 | vs DAL | L | 5 | 3.10 |
Method
- Goals are the final score’s, as the league’s standings count them: a game decided in a shootout gives its winner one goal, so it reads as a one-goal game.
- Expected is an offense and a defense a team, fit over every 2026-27 game between two teams in the table with the game being read left out, plus 0.14 for the home team (the edge the fit finds once strength is in), nothing at a neutral site.
- Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 17% of the difference the model predicts.
- The shuffle keeps the season’s shape: the games are cut into stretches, one a 15 games, where the dates leave the least variance, each game is read against its stretch, and the sides are shuffled only inside each stretch.