League One

Blackpool 1–4 Mansfield Town

Final score · Half-time 1–1 · Latest results

When the value flag on Mansfield Town was recorded live, the sharp market made Mansfield Town the most likely outcome at 40% (fair odds 2.51). On Mansfield Town, Unibet (NL) offered 2.60, +3.4% above its fair price of 2.51 (Strong value). Recent form — Blackpool: WLLLD; Mansfield Town: WDWDD.

After the whistle

Goals and cards

  1. 14' Albie Morgan · yellow card · Blackpool
  2. 17' 0–1 Michael Smith · goal · assist Jonathan Russell · Mansfield Town
  3. 40' Michael Smith · missed penalty · Mansfield Town
  4. 42' 1–1 Dion Charles · goal · assist Leighton Clarkson · Blackpool
  5. 45+1' Karoy Anderson · yellow card · Blackpool
  6. 52' Elliott Hewitt · yellow card · Mansfield Town
  7. 55' 1–2 Rhys Oates · goal · assist George Abbott · Mansfield Town
  8. 64' 1–3 Ilmari Niskanen (own goal) · Mansfield Town
  9. 78' 1–4 Tyler Roberts · goal · assist Rhys Oates · Mansfield Town

Match stats

Match statsBlackpoolMansfield Town
Possession %5347
Expected goals (xG)1.151.92
Shots1317
Shots on target56
Corners67
Yellow cards21
Red cards00
Fouls78
Offsides41
Goalkeeper saves44

What the market said before kick-off

  • Blackpool win 36% did not happen
  • Draw 27% did not happen
  • Mansfield Town win 38% happened
  • Over 2.5 goals 57% happened
  • Both teams score 62% happened
  • Value flag before kick-off: 2 · Mansfield Town @ 2.60 (Unibet (NL)) Won

CLV -2.2% vs the fair close. One flag on its own says little; the rule is judged on all of them.

Pinnacle closing price with the margin removed, next to what happened. It is the market's view, not a tip: an outcome priced at 30% happens about 3 times in 10.

Venue: Bloomfield Road, Blackpool

Line-ups, events and match stats: API-Football.

Starting line-ups

Blackpool 4-1-3-2

  1. 1 B. Peacock-Farrell GK
  2. 28 J. Williams DF
  3. 4 O. Casey DF
  4. 3 Z. Ashworth DF
  5. 21 I. Niskanen DF
  6. 8 A. Morgan MF
  7. 11 J. Bowler MF
  8. 17 Karoy Anderson MF
  9. 7 L. Clarkson MF
  10. 19 D. Charles FW
  11. 18 D. Taylor FW

Bench: J. Brown, T. Bloxham, A. Lyons, Finley Munroe, H. Coulson, L. Southwood, J. Yates

Coach: I. Evatt

Regular starters not in the XI

  • T. Bloxham — on the bench (started 5 of the last 5)
  • J. Yates — on the bench (started 4 of the last 5)

Mansfield Town 3-1-4-2

  1. 1 L. Roberts GK
  2. 4 E. Hewitt DF
  3. 23 A. Oshilaja DF
  4. 5 R. Sweeney DF
  5. 25 L. Reed MF
  6. 22 N. Moriah-Welsh MF
  7. 33 G. Abbott MF
  8. 16 L. Thompson MF
  9. 3 S. McLaughlin MF
  10. 14 M. Smith FW
  11. 13 J. Russell FW

Bench: F. Blake-Tracy, L. Bolton, J. Bowery, R. Hendry, K. Knoyle, R. Oates, T. Roberts

Coach: N. Clough

Not in the XI does not mean injured: it can be rotation, a suspension or a knock. We only compare with the team's last 5 line-ups.

Pinnacle, margin removed (home / draw / away): 35 / 26 / 39% when the line-ups came out, 36 / 27 / 38% at kick-off.

In the big leagues, line-up news is usually already in the price by the time it is official.

The most likely result is not the same as value: value is where a bookmaker pays more than the fair price, and the two can point to different outcomes.

Value opportunity before kick-off Strong value

2 Mansfield Town @ 2.60
Bookmaker Unibet (NL)
Price observed
Flag recorded @ 2.60 (Unibet (NL)) · recorded live, before kick-off
Market 1X2 (match result)
Availability and exact price varied by country and over time.
Fair price 2.51
Unibet (NL) 2.60
Market Gap +3.4%
Confidence Low
Model agreement High

Confidence reflects only the sharp probability of the selection: high from 50%, medium from 40%, low below. It says how likely the result is, not how big the price gap is. Model agreement shows how close our own model is to the sharp market on this selection — when it is Low, the market and our model disagree, so treat the flag with more caution.

Value flag result Won · 2 +1.60u

Market discrepancy: before kick-off, Mansfield Town (2) was priced at 2.60 by a soft bookmaker, above the fair price of 2.51 — a +3.4% gap. An observation about the price, not an instruction to bet.

A single result where a bookmaker pays above the fair price — separate from the main prediction below.

The market's two most likely results

1/2 Home or away 75% · as recorded

No single result was 55% likely or more when we logged the match, so this line adds up the two most likely outcomes (double chance).

1X2
Sharp, recorded35%25%40%
Other estimates
Our model37%28%35%

Sharp, recorded = Pinnacle when we logged the match (it can be days old). Our model = our own estimate, which on average predicts worse than the market.

Fair odds (as recorded) 1.34
Sharp odds recorded for this prediction (Pinnacle) 2.69 / 3.64 / 2.38
Result in our track record Won · 2

Match context

Blackpool averaged 1.2 goals scored and 1.8 conceded per game over their last 5 matches in our results database; Mansfield Town averaged 1.6 and 0.8 over 5.

Since opening around 2.38, the sharp market price on Mansfield Town has drifted to 2.66 — the market has moved against this outcome.

These figures come from our own tracked results and odds snapshots for this fixture — not from a generic stats feed.

Market-relevant trends

Mansfield Town is unbeaten in its last 5 matches.
✓ And the market hasn't fully priced it in: value flagged on Mansfield Town at +3.4% above fair.

We show the trend and whether it is already in the price. Most sites show the streak and let you assume you should bet it.

Why this price?

Blackpool
W L L L D
avg 1.2 scored · 1.8 conceded (last 5)
Mansfield Town
W D W D D
avg 1.6 scored · 0.8 conceded (last 5)

Form: most recent match first.

Recent head-to-head
17 Feb 2026 Blackpool 1–0 Mansfield Town
19 Aug 2025 Mansfield Town 2–0 Blackpool
15 Feb 2025 Blackpool 3–3 Mansfield Town
05 Oct 2024 Mansfield Town 2–0 Blackpool

Recent form and head-to-head from our settled results — context behind the fair price. The price itself comes from the sharp market, not from these alone.

Proof & methodology

The timestamped record of this prediction, and how the fair price is made.

Value lifecycle Settled

Detected ·
2 Mansfield Town · soft 2.60 (Unibet (NL)) · fair 2.51 · edge +3.4%
Opening sharp
2.38
At close
2.66 · CLV -2.2%
Result
Won +1.60u 🔒 Recorded live before kick-off

“Detected” is the moment the flag was first shown on the site and written to our ledger (recorded live since 26 September 2026). For earlier matches the flag was reconstructed afterwards from the prices we had stored, and the time shown is when the rule would have fired: a backtest, not a live record. When the gap closes, we say so instead of pretending the value is still there.

Public, timestamped record

Logged before kick-off
Prediction record
Pick 1/2 · Home or away
Odds recorded for the prediction 1.26
Pinnacle closing odds (with margin) 1.32
Prediction CLV -4.1%
Result Won
Value-bet record

Recorded when the site showed it, before kick-off. Its seal is in our public export once this match’s row is published, and in the next daily external snapshot (07:40 Bucharest time: 04:40 UTC in summer time, 05:40 UTC in winter); for flags recorded on match day that snapshot comes after kick-off, so the pre-kick-off proof is our own timestamp.

Value selection 2 · Mansfield Town
Odds when flagged 2.60
Fair odds 2.51
Fair closing odds (Pinnacle, margin removed) 2.66
Value CLV -2.2%
Profit (units) +1.60
Result Won
Prediction hash — integrity fingerprint 84b6f13f66f2f3c7

This hash fingerprints the prediction as recorded: teams, kick-off time, our model probabilities, the Pinnacle prices recorded for it (at logging or, if there were none, the first quoted after logging and before kick-off, which can be written in after the match) and the log time. A later edit to any of them would change it (a rescheduled kick-off changes it too). It does not cover closing prices, the result or the value-bet record above; value flags recorded live have their own seal in the public record. Verify in the public record →

Every day a snapshot of the full public record is published to a public Git repository and timestamped with OpenTimestamps. Timestamped snapshots are never overwritten and the Git history shows any difference, so a later change to a past row is visible by comparing two snapshots. The corrections file lists the corrections we announced. Verify on the public log →

Since 20 June 2026 the public record is snapshotted daily (07:40 Bucharest time: 04:40 UTC in summer time, 05:40 UTC in winter) to an external log. A prediction is externally timestamped before kick-off only if it was in a snapshot taken before the match; predictions logged on match day, or whose Pinnacle price was added after logging, first appear there after kick-off. Value flags have been recorded live only since 26 September 2026; earlier value flags were reconstructed on that date.

Methodology

The fair price comes from the sharp market itself: we strip the margin from Pinnacle-style odds — the most accurate public predictor in existence — and use our calibrated Elo + form model as a cross-check and as the fallback where no sharp price exists. Value is flagged only where a softer bookmaker prices a selection above that fair price, never on long shots (implied probability under 30%), and never beyond a plausible band. Most of the time there is no value — and we say so.

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