Championship: table, results and fixtures
Season Anomaly Rating — English Championship
based on analysed matches — 5 cases on file| # | Team | Cases | Avg Crime | Robbed | Stole | Δ xG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Ham | 1 | 91% | 1 | — | +2.39 |
| 2 | Charlton | 1 | 91% | — | 1 | -2.39 |
| 3 | Norwich | 1 | 74% | 1 | — | +1.27 |
| 4 | West Brom | 1 | 74% | — | 1 | -1.27 |
| 5 | Watford | 1 | 66% | — | 1 | -0.82 |
| 6 | Southampton | 1 | 66% | 1 | — | +0.82 |
| 7 | Portsmouth | 1 | 60% | — | — | -0.04 |
| 8 | QPR | 1 | 60% | — | — | +0.04 |
| 9 | Stoke City | 1 | 51% | 1 | — | +0.02 |
| 10 | Swansea | 1 | 51% | — | 1 | -0.02 |
The English Championship xG table: the biggest over- and underperformers of the season by expected goals.
"Robbed" — lost while winning the xG. "Stole" — won while losing the xG. greyed out — teams with a single case: not enough data to rank.
Most Anomalous Matches — English Championship
Bravsen Intelligence automatically monitors English Championship matches and publishes a risk report for every statistical anomaly. An investigation opens when a match's Crime Index exceeds 60% — indicating a significant divergence between team xG figures and the actual score. Total for Championship published 5 investigations.
West Ham 1:2 Charlton: 78% Possession and a Missed Penalty in Stoppage Time
West Ham held 78% of the possession, fired 25 shots to Charlton's seven, and posted an xG of 2.96 against a modest 0.57 for the visitors — more than a fivefold edge in expected goals. They still lost 1:2, and missed a stoppage-time penalty in the 90+3rd minute that could have salvaged a draw.
23 August 2026
Watford Beat Southampton 2:1 Despite Trailing on xG
The visitors led on expected goals — 1.65 to 0.83, nearly double in Southampton's favor. Bravsen's model gives a final score like this, on that xG split, roughly a 19% probability — and that rarity is what makes Watford's 2:1 win a genuine reversal, not just another weekend result.
17 Aug
Norwich Fall 1:2 to West Brom in the Final Fifteen Minutes
For seventy-four minutes of this match Norwich methodically picked apart the opposition defense: twenty shots, 54% possession, expected goals of 2.72 to 1.45. None of it showed on the board. Then in the 75th minute Heggebo finally beat West Brom's keeper, and it looked like the territorial edge had finally found its material proof — but that goal is exactly what triggered the countdown to a 1:2 home defeat.
16 Aug
The English Championship is Europe's longest and arguably least predictable league: 46 rounds, a brutal calendar and a table where anyone beats anyone. For a statistical model it is a stress test — and a perfect hunting ground for anomalies.
Championship Stats: Match Reviews And xG
Every second-tier English game gets a complete Bravsen Intelligence review: shots, possession, set pieces, cards — and an xG valuation of what each side created. The marathon schedule makes the Championship the league of tired matches, where conversion swings wildly both ways; such results are flagged by the anomaly index and dissected separately.
Championship Results: The Race For The EPL In Numbers
Every round here reshuffles the promotion race and the survival scrap — and every strange score can cost a club its season. We show which wins were earned by football and which were gifted by the opponent: goal minutes, conversion, head-to-head series and table context in the reviews above.
Championship History And Format
England's second tier has existed in its current form since 2004. The format is a marathon: 24 clubs, 46 rounds, plus play-offs for the final promotion spot. The top two go up to the Premier League automatically, and the play-off final at Wembley is called the richest game in football — victory is worth hundreds of millions in television revenue.
How many teams go up from the Championship?
Three per season: two automatically, one through the play-offs contested by 3rd to 6th place.
Why is the Championship so unpredictable?
46 rounds and calendar congestion erase class differences: fatigue destabilises finishing, and the anomaly index fires here more often than in slower-paced leagues.