Kilmarnock vs St Mirren — Scottish Premiership result and pre-match forecast, Wednesday, 2 September 2026

Scottish Premiership·Wednesday, 2 September 2026

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Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 15.7 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Kilmarnock

33%

Draw

27%

St Mirren

40%

pick · result

Final score

0–1

Top pick landed

Metis gave a St Mirren win 39.9% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a St Mirren win. Expected goals 1.29–1.42 against 0–1 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals51%1 scored
Both teams score56%no
Kilmarnock clean sheet24%no
St Mirren clean sheet28%yes
Kilmarnock score 2+37%no
St Mirren score 2+42%no

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.2354
1X2 Brier score0.5444
Probability on the result39.9%

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: 1–1 (12.9%), 1–2 (9.0%), 0–1 (8.8%). It finished 0–1 — one of them.

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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

St Mirren

1 AugAvs Falkirk2–0W
8 AugHvs St Johnstone1–0W
30 AugHvs Motherwell3–3D
2 SeptAvs Kilmarnock1–0W
5 SeptHvs Celtic1–2L

Head to head

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

Model context

StatKilmarnock
(Home · 4 matches)
St Mirren
(Away · 3 matches)
BTTS rate50.0%0.0%
Over 2.5 rate50.0%0.0%
Clean sheet0.0%66.7%
Avg goals3.251.33

Home stats use Kilmarnock's home record; away stats use St Mirren'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.