Badness Score
A proprietary Footblox metric designed to highlight football matches with the strongest discipline profile.
Badness Score helps identify fixtures with elevated disciplinary intensity by combining team discipline data, referee context, rivalry signals and broader match environment into a single 0–100 index.
What is Badness Score?
Badness Score is a synthetic discipline indicator created by Footblox to evaluate how intense, aggressive or card-prone a football match profile may be. Instead of relying on a single number, it summarizes multiple contextual layers into one clearer metric.
Why it matters
Looking only at basic cards averages often hides the real picture. Some matches become highly relevant because of team tendencies, referee behaviour, rivalry context, recent form and overall game tension. Badness Score was designed to surface those stronger disciplinary environments more clearly and faster.
How Badness Score works
The model combines several signals and transforms them into a single readable score, making comparison between fixtures easier.
Team discipline profile
The score considers how teams behave in terms of fouls, cards, pressure and broader disciplinary tendencies.
Referee impact
Referee style matters. Some officials create higher-card environments, while others keep matches under tighter control with different foul and booking patterns.
Match context
Rivalry level, stakes, recent tension and match environment can all influence how heated a fixture may become.
Single synthetic output
All of these layers are normalized into one 0–100 metric so users can scan the slate and quickly identify stronger discipline spots.
How to read the score
Badness Score is designed as an at-a-glance signal. Higher values indicate stronger discipline intensity potential within the match profile.
Lower range
Usually calmer match environments with weaker disciplinary pressure signals.
Medium range
Balanced discipline context, with some relevant signals but not an especially extreme profile.
High range
Matches showing strong discipline-related indicators, often supported by multiple contextual signals.
Elite range
The most intense profiles on the slate, where team behaviour, referee context and match tension align strongly.
How users can use it
Badness Score is built for faster football intelligence workflows across discipline-focused analysis.
Important note
Badness Score is a statistical and analytical metric. It is designed for football intelligence and match analysis purposes, not as betting advice or a guarantee of any outcome.
See Badness Score inside Footblox
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