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Originally Posted by DuckSauce
Over the course of the season xG does a very good job of measuring teams attacking and defending, more so than just goals or shots
No it doesn’t.
Stopping belthering utter ****e.
I’ll gladly accept your money again if you want to back it teams finishing positions based on xG in mid Jan and I’ll take bookies.
Single games are utter bs, think Plop v Everton last year one which stands out.
Arse the other day.
Projections based on xG have been utterly useless and completely wrong in cases where it may actually be benifictial to know. Time and time again. Will be willing to bet on this again - aside from the painstakingly obvious City are good, good chance of top 4 or league. Brighton are crap.
This is a theme we keep going over and over again.
Single game - xG has 2.3 - .04 - should have been 7-0. xG had 3.0 - 1.3 wow away team should have won.
Nah, you should do it as a rolling 6 game week - something you’ve said after being called out it this in the past.
Which again turns out to be a load of nonsense as well and doesn’t suit any purpose.
It’s not great for fantasy either. Stats like touches in the box, shots in the box, shots in 6 yard box etc are way better than xG
Look at the strikers xG, loads of them outperform xG - granted Aguero performed slightly below it last season likely a major factor in 8bus hate for him. You don’t need xG to tell me that a striker is going to score more chances than a defender.
This ‘debate’ will be brought up again this weekend when a team batters someone on the pitch but loses 1-0 but xG has it as 1.2 - .9 I for one look forward to it.