COUNT THE GOALS ยท PRICE THE TOTAL
๐ Poisson Calculator
What this tool is: the count-modeling workhorse of the trade. Give it an expected rate โ goals, team TDs, saves, corners โ and a line, and it returns over/under probabilities, fair odds and the full exact-count table.
ฮป = the average you project. A soccer match totaling 2.5 goals at even juice implies ฮป โ 2.6.
The distribution, plainly
P(k) = ฮปแตe^(โฮป)/k!. At ฮป = 2.5, exactly two goals hits
25.7% of the time, and the over 2.5 lands
45.6% โ fair odds about +119. Compare that fair number to the posted price and you've priced the total; run the gap through the
EV calculator to grade it in dollars. Honest caveat: Poisson assumes independent scoring, and football has garbage time โ treat it as the strong first model it is.