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This xG nonsense


Its not useless but it needs to be used with a wider set of statistics and also a greater data set. It's not saying you cant score from the chances but rather assessing the quality of chances that are created. Ultimately to people in general it means nothing, but for analysts etc its important and will have formed part of our recruitment profile
 
It's got big flaws, doesn't legilsate for the state the game is in for example. You'd expect Leeds to have had more yesterday for example when they're chasing to get back into a game and got their tails up a bit after scoring.
 
I'd much rather we were solid defensively like we have been, and can focus on being more expansive once we secure safety because that will likely come at a cost defensively. Which I'm sure people will then be equally pissed off about.
 
jcrossan said:
If the Premier league table was set according to this xG silliness, that pundits are always mentioning and we are supposed to take seriously, we would be 4th bottom, just ahead of Aston Villa who would be 16th.

Thankfully we play on grass and not inside a computer program.
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Bollocks this like
Don’t even care if this makes me sound tin foil hat mad but this looks like something that was invented just so people have something else to gamble on
 
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jcrossan said:
If the Premier league table was set according to this xG silliness, that pundits are always mentioning and we are supposed to take seriously, we would be 4th bottom, just ahead of Aston Villa who would be 16th.

Thankfully we play on grass and not inside a computer program.
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So the stat isn't the problem it's what people infer from it. xG was never intended as a tool to determine where teams 'deserve' to be. If you are creating a load of chances and missing them all then you don't 'deserve' to be anywhere other than where you are.

xG is not the problem, it's the conclusions people draw from it.
0321safc said:
It has Villa as marginally better than wolves but a blind man on a galloping horse can see there’s a colossal chasm between the 2 clubs.
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No, it doesn't. It doesn't claim to make any judgement about how good a team is. It's just a stat.
 
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