Description: Soccer nerds with spreadsheets
This is a site for the objective analysis of Major League Soccer and U.S. Soccer
Expected goals (xG) have become the most widely used metric in football analytics in the last decade. In short, xG models, such as the one developed by American Soccer Analysis , calculate how many goals a team should have scored based on the characteristics of the shots they have taken. Penalties provide the easiest example: roughly 76% of penalties are converted, so each penalty has an xG value of 0.76. Many articles have shown that using expected goals is preferred to actual goals when evaluating perform
I really want passing to matter . I watch, on average, 968 passes in a soccer game, and I’d like to think that completing them actually means something more than launching the ball into the first row.