Glossary

Every CLVA term, explained in a sentence or two.

What the numbers mean.

Plain-English definitions of every term on CLVA.

Power Rating: One number for how good a team is, on the same scale for every team. In football 50 is average and 10 points is about half a goal a game.
Win chance: How likely a team is to win a match, from both teams' ratings and home advantage. Home, draw and away add up to 100%.
Home advantage: The extra a team gets from playing at home. In our football ratings it is worth about 0.28 goals a game.
Expected goals (xG): How many goals a team's chances would usually produce, based on where and how each shot was taken.
Projected score: The goals we expect each side to score in a match, from the two teams' ratings.
Total goals: The two projected scores added together: the goals we expect in the whole match.
3+ goals / Over 2.5: A match with three or more goals in total. Over 2.5 is another way of writing the same thing.
BTTS: Both teams to score: each side scores at least one goal.
Clean sheet: A match where a team concedes no goals.
Form: How a team has played recently, from its last few results.
Title race chance: How often a team wins the league when we play out the rest of the season 10,000 times from today's table.
League strength: The average rating of a league's teams, so leagues can be compared on one scale.
Movers: The teams whose rating rose or fell the most since the last update.
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