I'm obsessed with XG

[Windypants]

Following all the hoo-hah re. us being anomalous, today looks like it was another game that we stole from the XG stattos - anyone know what the XGs for the game were?

 

[JL1985]

Have you written that in a foreign language?

 

[hefty em]

Cabbage.

 

[Windypants]

Have you written that in a foreign language?

Dunno. If you're German, or any other non-English speaking nationality, then, yes, it's in a foreign language.

 

[Steesafc]

Wibble?

 

[sid84763]

What is XG?

 

[lightofthesun]

Expected goals? Dunno.

 

[Roger]

Expected goals (xG) is the new revolutionary football metric which allows you to evaluate team and player performance

The problem being that Sunderland score UxGs (Unexpected goals) and don't concede xGs which screws things up for the Stattos

 

[phunboy]

Not sure how it's exactly worked out but I think we'd be ahead for another week

 

[Billy Fish]

Expected goals (xG) is the new revolutionary football metric which allows you to evaluate team and player performance

The problem being that Sunderland score UxGs (Unexpected goals) and don't concede xGs which screws things up for the Stattos

so with us now do they not just expect the unexpected?

 

[zebediah]

I talked about this as the only stat that matters (after actual scorelines of course), on here a good two years or so ago.
Possession, corners, passes are all irrelevant.

 

[phunboy]

so with us now do they not just expect the unexpected?

No I've just been delving into it it goes on what sort of chance we have and score from. So a shot from 6 yards has a higher xg value than a shot from 18. Say a shot from inside 6 yards was given an 0.91xg then it would be expected to be scored 91% of the time while a shot from outside the box could be given as an 0.24xg chance. Given that we've scored very few tap ins and a fair few from outside the box means we're ahead of xg

 

[manamamackem]

Following all the hoo-hah re. us being anomalous, today looks like it was another game that we stole from the XG stattos - anyone know what the XGs for the game were?

Who cares, really. It must stop you sleeping at night mate

 

[stephen cartwright]

It’s the new in thing. Expected goals which count more than our actual goals (second in the league) and conceded goals (best in the league)

You disregard reality of those as it’s expected that Barnsley are the best team in the league

 

[West_Winger]

Wibble?

Wobble.

 

[stephen cartwright]

Wobble.

The cube scored today.

 

[BlackCat88]

No I've just been delving into it it goes on what sort of chance we have and score from. So a shot from 6 yards has a higher xg value than a shot from 18. Say a shot from inside 6 yards was given an 0.91xg then it would be expected to be scored 91% of the time while a shot from outside the box could be given as an 0.24xg chance. Given that we've scored very few tap ins and a fair few from outside the box means we're ahead of xg

What a load of shite. Who determines these values?

 

[West_Winger]

The cube scored today.

Hell of a finish anarl!

 

[phunboy]

What a load of shite. Who determines these values?

Opta have apparently studied over 900k shots to determine the xg value for every shot

 

[BlackCat88]

Opta have apparently studied over 900k shots to determine the xg value for every shot

Some people need to get out more.

Can't stand all the over analysing of sports nowadays.