{"id":45485,"date":"2026-01-26T05:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-many-points-will-it-take-to-win-scottish-premiership\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T05:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:41:19","slug":"how-many-points-will-it-take-to-win-scottish-premiership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-many-points-will-it-take-to-win-scottish-premiership\/","title":{"rendered":"How many points will it take to win Scottish Premiership?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Just as you have finally got your head around expected goals (xG), we are going to throw some expected points data at you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yeah, yeah, we know &#8211; get the eye rolls out of the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These numbers do present us with an interesting insight, but trying to explain them is the issue. Give us a chance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Basically, our stats provider, Opta, uses the xG values that teams accrue in games, for and against, and then simulates the match 10,000 times, with the expected points based on the proportion of those games they win, draw or lose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hopefully that is clear enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The table they have churned out keeps the same top five after 23 games, but rejigs their positioning: Celtic first, Hearts second, Rangers third, Hibernian fourth and Motherwell fifth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c0erdjp0plpo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as you have finally got your head around expected goals (xG), we are going to throw some expected points data at you. Yeah, yeah, we know &#8211; get the eye rolls out of the way. These numbers do present us with an interesting insight, but trying to explain them is the issue. Give us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1183,5370,1706,1186],"class_list":["post-45485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-points","tag-premiership","tag-scottish","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45487,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45485\/revisions\/45487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}