Kilmarnock vs Hearts — Scottish Premiership result and pre-match forecast, Saturday, 19 September 2026

Scottish Premiership·Saturday, 19 September 2026

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Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 13.1 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Kilmarnock

19%

Draw

22%

result

Hearts

59%

top pick

Final score

1–1

Top pick missed

Metis gave the draw 21.8% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a Hearts win. Expected goals 0.98–1.88 against 1–1 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals55%2 scored
Both teams score53%yes
Kilmarnock clean sheet15%no
Hearts clean sheet38%no
Kilmarnock score 2+26%no
Hearts score 2+57%no

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.1934
1X2 Brier score0.9987
Probability on the result21.8%

Both scores are losses: lower is better, 0 is a forecast that put all of its probability on what happened. A single fixture says nothing on its own — the league's running record is on its league page, and the model is measured against the Pinnacle opening price in the methodology.

Most likely scores before kick-off: 1–2 (10.6%), 0–1 (10.6%), 0–2 (10.4%). It finished 1–1.

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Kilmarnock

2 AugAvs St Johnstone3–4L
9 AugHvs Celtic1–5L
29 AugHvs Dundee Utd0–4L
2 SeptHvs St Mirren0–1L
5 SeptAvs Aberdeen0–0D

Hearts

1 AugAvs Aberdeen1–2L
9 AugHvs Dundee Utd4–0W
29 AugHvs St Johnstone2–1W
3 SeptAvs Hibernian3–1W
6 SeptHvs Dundee2–1W

Head to head

No previous meetings in the Metis results archive for this competition.

Model context

StatKilmarnock
(Home · 6 matches)
Hearts
(Away · 6 matches)
BTTS rate66.7%83.3%
Over 2.5 rate66.7%66.7%
Clean sheet0.0%16.7%
Avg goals3.673.67

Home stats use Kilmarnock's home record; away stats use Hearts's away record this season. These are completed-match rates over the samples shown above, not model probabilities — early in a season a handful of matches produces 0% and 100% readings.