• tobyornottoby2366@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    It’s still probably the best, simple metric for assessing a team’s quality at a glance. At the end of the day it shows you how well a team creates goal scoring opportunities and how it prevents goal conceding opportunities, everything else is down to shot stopping and finishing (in theory).

    I think it’d be mostly fair to say it shows who ‘plays the best football’, less whether a team is actually effective at playing football.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not just down to shot stopping and shooting. It’s also about the quality of the assists and the position of the defence.

      I still agree it is the best simple metric to predict how teams will perform over a season. VfB Stuttgart in the Bundesliga for example will probably finish really high. I would bet top 6.

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        1 year ago

        Absolutely, though aren’t assist quality and defensive positioning both factors that influence xG and xGA? That’s kind of my thinking when saying why it’s a good metric.

    • LucozadeBottle1pCoin@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Is there a difference between playing good football and playing effective football? Is a team that creates a lot of chances and can barely finish any of them any better than a team that creates few chances but can normally finish them?