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Delargeinho
Player Valuation: £20m
Good sign that, good that at least some players can score what DCL misses again. Already 4 big chances missed this season.
However we had 3 50/50 games against Leicester, Bournemouth and Palace. You can end up with 9 in the case, with 0 in the best worst case. These games could go either ways.
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Expected Goals Conceded.
If you look at it as a singular statline it looks pretty good that we're doing okay in it. However, any normal actual analysis is done on the combination of all of the expected and actual statistics, as in this vacuum they make no sense. It's like being happy your car gets ridiculously great mileage, but ignoring it's just idling in place all day as it has no wheels.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
But mate, what is the point in stats if we can’t cherry pick them to suit a specific argument we want to make on that given day?
I’m sure someone has made a lot of money giving all these stat nerds a little jiggle in their big boy pants.
It’s a good job my eyes still work to tell me that X’whatever does not stop us playing awful football
Equally good and poor - we're not creating a massive amount but at least we're scoring the goals.
Even with 9 we'd still be almost/around midtable in the statline (by the way, Southampton are doing their best Everton impression by having almost 9 xG but scoring 3 goals
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As a stat nerd I say they have their value, but again - if you take all of them in. It's basically the moneyball/SABRmetrics approach which is supposed to yield results without taking into account style or anything.
This approach is limited in football as it's a lot of moving parts and variables you can't control and the game is a lot more complicated than the application that it originates from - baseball.
Rooney_Tunes
Player Valuation: £40m
If it's not covered in snot, I doubt he reads it.
Delargeinho
Player Valuation: £20m
Equally good and poor - we're not creating a massive amount but at least we're scoring the goals.
Even with 9 we'd still be almost/around midtable in the statline (by the way, Southampton are doing their best Everton impression by having almost 9 xG but scoring 3 goals
Jep, but that's unfortunately a long term problem at Everton and Dyche is another manager that won't solve it obviously.
Not against us in the cup, felt like they had fewer chances despite we shockingly gave up possession.
Not gona lie....I've missed the XG talk.
Delargeinho
Player Valuation: £20m
Even Potter mentioned it a lot on Sky.
Suffering a bit of insomnia are we
Little tip
Some anti histamines will help put you asleep
Curtis
Player Valuation: £35m
Not alot going on in your life?
Blue peter
Player Valuation: £35m
Fair point and well articulated. If the aim of the game in the eyes of Joe Public or the media is that this is another season where success for us is safety, then I don’t think he has the toughest job at all.
Despite that ongoing background shenanigans I am sure other smaller clubs would like to be competing with our squad.
If we look at at through the prism of Everton fans rightly demanding more (than what we are currently getting), then yes I would see it that way, but I think the majority of us only expected at least a similar season with hopefully a modest improvement points and places wise. All this talk of we expected Europe (and to be fair I didn’t hear it direct so not sure where it came from) was well wide of the mark.