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Originally Posted by mw828
you pick your team based on the expectations before the game is played. if arsenal should have won by 5, you must have really hammered the sportsbooks on all types of stuff involving a big win. talking about the run of play being more lopsided towards arsenal but them not scoring as much as they could have seems completely pointless. positive variance in that they dominated the game more than expected, negative variance that it didn't manifest itself with many more goals (which i don't even agree with). you can't just pick and choose what kind of variance you acknowledge. they won by 3 which is >>>expectation.
What you are saying doesn't apply particularly.
Projections had specific players being the most likely to be involved with goal. Those players performed well meeting said expected numbers, however they did not contribute to goals for fantasy. That's essentially bad variance and relates to pre match expectations. Me saying arsenal should have scored more is just an observation based on the chances the created. I imagine their xG was probably somewhere around 3. This is in no way shape or form related to any pre-match predictions because it is analysis of what actually occurred, since you know that is exactly what xG does.
ospina was >>>>>> for cash, and schwazer was >>>>> for gpp. Pantillimon was stuck in the very bad spot of being priced too high w/ not having a high enough win percentage.
Last edited by DuckSauce; 03-15-2015 at 02:10 AM.