Episode 697 - Expected Goals
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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How to Communicate a Data Driven Football Club
I think Spurs and Arsenal are probably the best examples of that. They both had this potentially massive advantage and didn't blow it. And partly, I think that is a failure of communication. It's about using XG and using your kind of underlying performance data as a justification. A lot of the time, it's wheeled out by clubs to defend managers they don't want to set. But we all, as fans, you just get what XG means. All that any of this stuff does is offer a little bit of support in evidence,. or put a number on it, gives it a vague value. If you win a game off an XG of 0.7 instead of
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