The Art of winning 'without playing well'
The Athletic FC Tactics Podcast
The Importance of Expected Goals
Expected goals can be a useful tool to inform your opinion, but don't use it as a crutch. One of the early strengths of expected goals was to try and avoid pure outcome bias when it comes to just looking at results on the score lines. There's two versions of everything we spoken about, quote unquote, winning without playing well which can influence things from a data viewpoint.
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