Sparkle Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 I prefer actual goals over a season with a positive goal difference of about +50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jubbs Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 16 hours ago, Bris Vegas said: XG is now more telling than total shots on goal Exactly this. Imagine a player has a weak shot target from 40 yards that a 90 year old could've saved. vs A 6 yard shot where the keeper makes a wonderful reaction save to it. Per some posters logic, these are exactly the same as they both count as a shot on target. If you look at the xG over the Lampard season it shows we were massively overperforming and created few high chance goal scoring opportunities, being bailed out by long shots from Wilson. We reverted to the mean and it came back to bite us on the backside. sage and Andicis 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 30 minutes ago, Jubbs said: Exactly this. Imagine a player has a weak shot target from 40 yards that a 90 year old could've saved. vs A 6 yard shot where the keeper makes a wonderful reaction save to it. Per some posters logic, these are exactly the same as they both count as a shot on target. If you look at the xG over the Lampard season it shows we were massively overperforming and created few high chance goal scoring opportunities, being bailed out by long shots from Wilson. We reverted to the mean and it came back to bite us on the backside. I didn't need xG to know that, but I expect it keeps someone in a job. Something else for the media to harp on about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyinLiverpool Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 32 minutes ago, Jubbs said: Exactly this. Imagine a player has a weak shot target from 40 yards that a 90 year old could've saved. vs A 6 yard shot where the keeper makes a wonderful reaction save to it. Per some posters logic, these are exactly the same as they both count as a shot on target. If you look at the xG over the Lampard season it shows we were massively overperforming and created few high chance goal scoring opportunities, being bailed out by long shots from Wilson. We reverted to the mean and it came back to bite us on the backside. Do you really need a statistician to tell you that? It seems to me that xG is just a way for gamblers to think they are being clever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlsonDerby Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 22 hours ago, BondJovi said: What these stats can never take into consideration is the human nature of it all. Has that chance fallen to an inform or out of form striker? Does this chance go up if playing against a former club? If you miss many chances, the pressure can build as the game goes on. Does that chance later on get the same rating, even though it is more pressured? The xG stat literally does take into account who it falls to ? Hourihanes goal has a much lower xG if it’s Curtis Davies running on to it in the box! Andicis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 (edited) 21 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said: I didn't need xG to know that, but I expect it keeps someone in a job. Something else for the media to harp on about. But that’s precisely the point. XG now paints a picture for those who don’t know that. For those who haven’t watched the game. Like I mentioned earlier, I didn’t watch the Bolton game as I was working. XG doesn’t tell me if it’s a free-flowing game or a scrappy one, but that stat alongside final third entries gave me enough to suggest Derby were shading proceedings while creating the better chances. If you’re a gambler and not watching the game, XG likely has value. For casuals like me, It also has value when checking to see whether our rivals are playing well or fluking results. Plymouth, for instance, regularly have a high XG. Stats would suggest they fully deserve to be top by some way. There was also an interesting stat that showed WBA had a higher XG than their opponent in almost every game (and on average the 2nd highest in the league) despite being in the bottom 3 when Bruce was sacked. Next manager comes in, makes a little tweak and now they’re in the top six having won something like 10 of their last 12 games. Edited January 23, 2023 by Bris Vegas Andicis and Jubbs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PistoldPete Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 14 minutes ago, AndyinLiverpool said: Do you really need a statistician to tell you that? It seems to me that xG is just a way for gamblers to think they are being clever. So again Andy you seem to think this is people thinking they are clever when they are not? Like I said before there is a reason Brentford are in the Premier and we are not. Maybe they could have just sent scouts to watch games but they didn’t . They used stats to assess players. This sort of thing works. Andicis and DarkFruitsRam7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyinLiverpool Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 8 minutes ago, PistoldPete said: So again Andy you seem to think this is people thinking they are clever when they are not? Like I said before there is a reason Brentford are in the Premier and we are not. Maybe they could have just sent scouts to watch games but they didn’t . They used stats to assess players. This sort of thing works. How do we know that's what Brentford did? How do we know they didn't send scouts? There are a whole load of reasons why we are not in the premier league. Leadership at the club wasn't inept just because they didn't use xG to sign players. LazloW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PistoldPete Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 (edited) 16 minutes ago, AndyinLiverpool said: How do we know that's what Brentford did? How do we know they didn't send scouts? There are a whole load of reasons why we are not in the premier league. Leadership at the club wasn't inept just because they didn't use xG to sign players. Well for a start when we signed Jacob Butterfield I couldn’t remember seeing him play so I looked his stats up and compared them to Jeff Hendrick. They didn’t look better than Hendrick who wasn’t always starting so I wondered why we were spending g so much on a player who was no better than a young lad we already had developed for nothing. nothing clever about that but for someone who never saw Butterfield play not a bad call really. it’s been well documented that Brentford use this kind of data .. their owner runs a data company. Oh and I didn’t say they didn’t send scouts .. I don’t know whether they did . But I said they didn’t just send scouts. Edited January 23, 2023 by PistoldPete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 34 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said: But that’s precisely the point. XG now paints a picture for those who don’t know that. For those who haven’t watched the game. They could just read the match report. ? LazloW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nottingram Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Often wonder if it is the name that is the problem. Like if it was called “Chance Quality”, which is effectively what it is, would it generate the same reaction Jubbs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazloW Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 (edited) Don’t really know what xG is or what it’s for, so this may come across as a grumpy old Luddite talking, but… Football is art; xG seems like another attempt to turn it into some form of (pseudo) science. You can’t distill a football match into stats; they always lie (including possession stats, shots on target, shots off target, corners, fouls and so on and so forth). Stats can’t describe the essence of a match, or the inherent subjectivity of what constitutes good or bad play, who deserved to win etc. . Might help give an impression but they tell me nothing about what truly happened. The stats also can’t tell you whether you’ve been entertained or not or whether you’ve enjoyed the match - though I think some people actually now decide that based on stats alone! It’s also (probably) another clever way of monetising statistics, finding a way of filling 24 hour sports media ‘content’, generating clicks on social media (case in point) and giving armchair moneyballers and coaches another opportunity to show how clever they are. I’d say put it in the bin alongside parachute payments, the new drop ball rule, the new interpretations of offside, referees who don’t understand what a foul or foul throw is, pundits who don’t understand what a foul is (contact does not always equate to a foul!), players having to go off after having the physio on, five subs and well, pretty much every ‘innovation’ since about 1990!! However, as with all those things, I imagine it is yet another minor annoyance that is destined to stay. As I said, grumpy old man! Edited January 23, 2023 by LazloW Day 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jubbs Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 1 hour ago, Bris Vegas said: Plymouth, for instance, regularly have a high XG. Stats would suggest they fully deserve to be top by some way. Agree with most of what you said apart from this. Plymouth actually are overperforming their open play xG by nearly 20 goals(!!!!) leaving them around 5th highest xG for. Defensively they have the 5th worst xGA, their current form isn't sustainable and could see them drop off, reverting towards the mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFruitsRam7 Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 1 hour ago, nottingram said: Often wonder if it is the name that is the problem. Like if it was called “Chance Quality”, which is effectively what it is, would it generate the same reaction Exactly this. Weirdly enough, and without wishing to start a debate, I think the term "white privilege" suffers from the exact same problem. It's a valid concept that's pitched horribly and alienates the sceptical people that you're trying to convince. Andicis and Jubbs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyinLiverpool Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 One thing I do know is that I have an xShag rating of 0 this week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFruitsRam7 Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 14 minutes ago, AndyinLiverpool said: One thing I do know is that I have an xShag rating of 0 this week Me and you both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted January 23, 2023 Author Share Posted January 23, 2023 2 hours ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said: Me and you both To be fair though, yours has been 0 for a bit longer than a week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Can you get minus readings? Asking for a friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrade 86 Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 2 hours ago, AndyinLiverpool said: One thing I do know is that I have an xShag rating of 0 this week 2 hours ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said: Me and you both I've booked you lads a room. Thank me later ? richinspain, PistoldPete, AndyinLiverpool and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PistoldPete Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 3 hours ago, AndyinLiverpool said: One thing I do know is that I have an xShag rating of 0 this week Ah on that at least we agree, you and me both. AndyinLiverpool 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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