Real Salt Lake vs New York City FC
Our model puts a Real Salt Lake win at 43.9% in this MLS fixture — close to a three-way split. Expected goals run 1.53 to 1.23.
Where we disagree with the market
Bookmakers price Real Salt Lake at 1.91, which implies about 52.4%. Our model has it at 43.9% — 8.5 points lower. That is a wide gap, and it is worth being plain about what it means: it is not a claim that the price is wrong and we are right. It means two methods that usually agree have landed far apart on this one, and only the result will say which of them read it better.
Evenly rated
There is almost nothing between these two on rating — 1477 against 1489, a gap of 12 points. Fixtures this evenly matched are where a model has least to say: the probabilities below are honest, but they are close to a coin weighted only slightly.
Margin risk
Our blowout flag reads 45.4%: roughly one simulation in 2 ends with a three-goal margin or more. Finishing gaps that wide make the scoreline far less predictable than the winner.