Deportivo vs Levante
Our model puts a Deportivo win at 36.9% in this La Liga fixture — close to a three-way split. Expected goals run 1.3 to 1.29.
What this probability has been worth
A number is worth what it has been worth. Across 1,941 predictions published before kick-off and scored against the result afterwards, the calls we priced between 35% and 45% came in 38.8% of the time — 717 fixtures in that band. The model claimed 40.6%, so the two are within 1.8 points of each other. In this range the stated probability has meant roughly what it says.
Where we disagree with the market
Bookmakers price Deportivo at 2.1, which implies about 47.6%. Our model has it at 36.9% — 10.7 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.
The ratings gap
Levante carry a rating of 1643 against 1544 for Deportivo, a gap of 99 points. On our scale that is the difference between a side that controls most of its fixtures and one that has to earn each of them. It is also the single largest input into the probabilities above.