XG? Love it hate it

[Mashtray]

I like looking at the statistics after the games and see how we coming along in underlying numbers.

Expected Goals scored
Everton 6th place

And for defensive numbers (very impressive)
Everton sit 2nd in terms of expected goals conceded

 

[FrenchDarrenBent]

Very interesting.
Should also be interesting to compare our XG from this season to last season...

 

[Lord Buckethead]

I though XG was some sort of a boy band

 

[barneygumble]

I’m not really bothered.

it all feels very “FIFA” generation to me.

Goals, Shots on Target are your indicator of how well you should have done in a game in an attacking front.

 

[nsno-chris]

Nerds

 

[Bluerover]

I enjoy use of stats in analysis.

These above are interesting thanks OP

 

[blulouie]

Do Paco Rabbane make this ?

 

[Mashtray]

I’m not really bothered.

it all feels very “FIFA” generation to me.

Goals, Shots on Target are your indicator of how well you should have done in a game in an attacking front.

So for example if I see that our opposition had 15 shots at goal but only 2 on target I'd say that's a defensively strong performance as we restricting shots on target. Obviously it's not everything.

But for interest sake, Tottenham were first after 3 games with 3, 1-0 wins but when I looked at the xg tables it showed them as 3rd last for the expected points they should have had meaning they were very lucky and scorelines not accurately showing how poor they were in those games, but then again they had 9 points so it can be wishy washy but could indicate trends that should continue.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

XTC ....

 

[zukai12_]

Not for me but looking at these sort of stats at any time before xmas is pointless

 

[Nymzee]

Is it more or less dangerous than 5G?

 

[TheBigIguana]

Very interesting.
Should also be interesting to compare our XG from this season to last season...

For the whole season there is no comparison. After 7 games last year we were probably similarly good but it dropped way off. I don't expect that to happen this time.

 

[TheBigIguana]

So for example if I see that our opposition had 15 shots at goal but only 2 on target I'd say that's a defensively strong performance as we restricting shots on target. Obviously it's not everything.

But for interest sake, Tottenham were first after 3 games with 3, 1-0 wins but when I looked at the xg tables it showed them as 3rd last for the expected points they should have had meaning they were very lucky and scorelines not accurately showing how poor they were in those games, but then again they had 9 points so it can be wishy washy but could indicate trends that should continue.

Do defenses really fully control whether the shot is on target though?

 

[MikeH72]

My god no.

 

[coollino]

have we moved up or down the table because of these findings? have we emailed this to the FA?