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Prepared 31 October 2026. FootyStats refreshed 2026-10-31T10:23:56.738Z. AI-assisted research; independent human review has not been verified.
Updated 31 October 2026 at 10:23 GMT: Salford’s indicative home price shortened from 1.58 to 1.44, moving above Port Vale. Grimsby’s home price moved from 2.20 to 2.40. All 11 matches remain listed as incomplete (not yet completed); no fixture has been added or removed from this feed snapshot. Bookmaker provenance and team-news limitations remain unresolved.
League Two predictions 31 October 2026: research assessment
Salford and Port Vale lead the feed-price research shortlist, followed by Oldham. These are directional research candidates, not approved bets: the feed does not identify a bookmaker for its top-level 1X2 prices. No independently validated win model has been applied, so measured probabilities and executable accumulators cannot responsibly be supplied.
All 11 fixtures below match the official EFL fixture listing for Saturday 31 October. Times are Europe/London. Newport–Chesterfield was on 30 October and is excluded.
Strongest-to-weakest price shortlist
Research order uses the lowest home/away decimal feed price, ascending; ties retain fixture order. It reflects indicative market strength, not value or independent probability. Draw prices are displayed fairly but none is forced into a selection. All final selections remain unqualified pending bookmaker provenance and contextual checks.
| Rank | Fixture | Kick-off | Research outcome | 1 / X / 2 odds | Final selection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salford City v Exeter City | 15:00 | 1 | 1.44 / 4.1 / 5.5 | No selection |
| 2 | Port Vale v Rochdale | 12:30 | 1 | 1.58 / 3.6 / 4.6 | No selection |
| 3 | Oldham Athletic v Crawley Town | 15:00 | 1 | 1.73 / 3.8 / 4.25 | No selection |
| 4 | Tranmere Rovers v Cheltenham Town | 15:00 | 1 | 1.91 / 3.6 / 3.7 | No selection |
| 5 | Shrewsbury Town v Gillingham | 15:00 | 1 | 2 / 3.35 / 3.75 | No selection |
| 6 | Accrington Stanley v Northampton Town | 15:00 | 1 | 2.06 / 3.25 / 3.3 | No selection |
| 7 | Crewe Alexandra v Barnet | 15:00 | 2 | 2.98 / 3.4 / 2.2 | No selection |
| 8 | Fleetwood Town v Bristol Rovers | 15:00 | 2 | 2.75 / 3.3 / 2.37 | No selection |
| 9 | Swindon Town v Rotherham United | 15:00 | 1 | 2.37 / 3.4 / 2.76 | No selection |
| 10 | Grimsby Town v York City | 12:30 | 1 | 2.4 / 3.35 / 2.6 | No selection |
| 11 | Colchester United v Walsall | 15:00 | 2 | 2.62 / 3.25 / 2.42 | No selection |
Individual match evidence
Grimsby Town v York City
FootyStats pre-match venue PPG: home 1.67, away 0.5. Overall PPG: 1.31 versus 1.54. This is a descriptive comparison, not an opponent-adjusted prediction. The venue comparison favours the home side. Exact venue sample sizes, confirmed team news, rest-day effects and recent-result sequences have not been independently verified in this report. No final selection.
Port Vale v Rochdale
FootyStats pre-match venue PPG: home 2.2, away 0.83. Overall PPG: 1.09 versus 1.15. This is a descriptive comparison, not an opponent-adjusted prediction. The venue comparison favours the home side. Exact venue sample sizes, confirmed team news, rest-day effects and recent-result sequences have not been independently verified in this report. No final selection.
Salford City v Exeter City
FootyStats pre-match venue PPG: home 2.5, away 0.67. Overall PPG: 2.15 versus 1.46. This is a descriptive comparison, not an opponent-adjusted prediction. The venue comparison favours the home side. Exact venue sample sizes, confirmed team news, rest-day effects and recent-result sequences have not been independently verified in this report. No final selection.
Oldham Athletic v Crawley Town
FootyStats pre-match venue PPG: home 1.67, away 0.8. Overall PPG: 1 versus 0.55. This is a descriptive comparison, not an opponent-adjusted prediction. The venue comparison favours the home side. Exact venue sample sizes, confirmed team news, rest-day effects and recent-result sequences have not been independently verified in this report. No final selection.
Fleetwood Town v Bristol Rovers
FootyStats pre-match venue PPG: home 1.5, away 0.5. Overall PPG: 1.08 versus 1.23. This is a descriptive comparison, not an opponent-adjusted prediction. The venue comparison favours the home side. Exact venue sample sizes, confirmed team news, rest-day effects and recent-result sequences have not been independently verified in this report. No final selection.
Colchester United v Walsall
FootyStats pre-match venue PPG: home 1.8, away 1.33. Overall PPG: 1 versus 1.58. This is a descriptive comparison, not an opponent-adjusted prediction. The venue comparison favours the home side. Exact venue sample sizes, confirmed team news, rest-day effects and recent-result sequences have not been independently verified in this report. No final selection.
Crewe Alexandra v Barnet
FootyStats pre-match venue PPG: home 2, away 2.2. Overall PPG: 1.62 versus 2.08. This is a descriptive comparison, not an opponent-adjusted prediction. The venue comparison does not give the home side an advantage. Exact venue sample sizes, confirmed team news, rest-day effects and recent-result sequences have not been independently verified in this report. No final selection.
Tranmere Rovers v Cheltenham Town
FootyStats pre-match venue PPG: home 1.5, away 0.83. Overall PPG: 1.23 versus 1.62. This is a descriptive comparison, not an opponent-adjusted prediction. The venue comparison favours the home side. Exact venue sample sizes, confirmed team news, rest-day effects and recent-result sequences have not been independently verified in this report. No final selection.
Swindon Town v Rotherham United
FootyStats pre-match venue PPG: home 1.83, away 0.67. Overall PPG: 1.23 versus 0.92. This is a descriptive comparison, not an opponent-adjusted prediction. The venue comparison favours the home side. Exact venue sample sizes, confirmed team news, rest-day effects and recent-result sequences have not been independently verified in this report. No final selection.
Shrewsbury Town v Gillingham
FootyStats pre-match venue PPG: home 1.67, away 1.33. Overall PPG: 1.38 versus 1.31. This is a descriptive comparison, not an opponent-adjusted prediction. The venue comparison favours the home side. Exact venue sample sizes, confirmed team news, rest-day effects and recent-result sequences have not been independently verified in this report. No final selection.
Accrington Stanley v Northampton Town
FootyStats pre-match venue PPG: home 2, away 1. Overall PPG: 1.38 versus 1.18. This is a descriptive comparison, not an opponent-adjusted prediction. The venue comparison favours the home side. Exact venue sample sizes, confirmed team news, rest-day effects and recent-result sequences have not been independently verified in this report. No final selection.
Home wins, away wins and draws
Port Vale, Salford and Oldham merit further home-win research from price and venue PPG. Barnet’s away PPG exceeds Crewe’s home PPG, making that fixture worthy of away-side investigation, but it does not establish value. Draws remain live outcomes throughout; no draw qualifies without stronger evidence. Small samples and opponent quality can reverse simple PPG comparisons.
League Two accumulators: qualification outcome
No defensible quoted 3-fold, 4-fold or 5-fold qualifies at this snapshot. Prices lack named-bookmaker provenance and no independent model supplies probabilities. Combined odds and combined probabilities are therefore omitted rather than presented as executable or measured. FIS and subjective confidence scores are also omitted.
Every accumulator leg must win; one losing leg normally loses the whole bet. Adding legs generally reduces success. Void-leg and settlement rules depend on the bookmaker. Nested 3-, 4- and 5-folds share exposure rather than independently diversifying it. Multiplying probabilities would assume independence; cross-match dependence remains unquantified.
Methodology, sources and next checks
FootyStats matches-by-date returned one page, 83 total matches, max page 1. Filtered competition_id 17185, season 2026/2027, and cross-checked the 11 fixtures against the official EFL list. Missing or placeholder statistics are not treated as zero. xG is omitted because its exact sample and interpretation were not verified. No injury, motivation or lineup claims are inferred.
Before kick-off verify club team news, venue/postponement notices, recent results and rest, sample sizes, and all three prices together at one bookmaker. Margin-adjusted market probability would be (1/selected odds) divided by the sum of reciprocals of all three odds, times 100. It is not an independently measured win probability. That calculation is withheld here because bookmaker provenance is unresolved.
Completed: date and competition fixture cross-check, page coverage, venue PPG transcription, indicative price ordering, native HTML table headings. Outstanding: named-bookmaker pricing, independent team news, complete statistical/context checks, mobile visual inspection, SEO plugin fields and schema deployment. No indexing claim is made.
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