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Yup. Also called xGchain. Basically, take the the xG of a given attack, then gives it to everyone involved in the attack, minus the shooter and final pass. Gives a way to see if you can credit guys who do the starting of attacks.
Sort of. MLS also awards "hockey assists". The issue is if it provides anything of value. If you count hockey assists as assists (which is what hockey and MLS do), is it the right way to value things? Knutson's argument is that it needs to be a separate measurement.
Well yeah there's a stark difference between rolling the ball to a winger who beats 3 players and sets up a goal to a defence splitting pass to a winger who squares is easily for a tap in. But then we could forge a similar argument to the varying value of a 'normal' assist I suppose.
There are guys who do expected assist models like they do expected goals stuff, but only one has anything really public.
The stats-obsessed side of football fandom can get a bit tiring. It's fun to dabble with it, but those who live/die by statistical analysis can seem to think they've got *the* way of gauging players nailed.
There is no such thing in football
They really are linked, info comes from one of the best physios in Europe (also former physio of the belgian NT) who also said that Spurs medical team are top notch. Next couple of games watch him after he takes a shot, lots of times you'll see the pain on his face and reduced mobility instantly afterwards. It's also due to his shooting technique.
The way they chose the cut-offs actually was explained by the person who started the radar thing. Originally he had it as 0-highest value in Europe, but Messi made everyone else look like shit. So, he re-did it as 5th percentile of players in the league to 95th percentile. The idea was just to show who was good/crap at particular stuff in a way you could compare.The stats-obsessed side of football fandom can get a bit tiring. It's fun to dabble with it, but those who live/die by statistical analysis can seem to think they've got *the* way of gauging players nailed.
Hell, on that chart for Dembele, what exactly determines the magnitude on the scale on each stat? If you set them low enough, any player will look like a god at a glance. Why, for example, choose 2.1 dribbles as the maximum for the chart? (other than that Dembele has averaged this per 90)
It ends up looking like the stats for a pokemon.
I remember he did an interview where he said that the place where he played as a kid didn't have goal net, just a pair of poles, so to score you had to get the ball to touch the pole.
