xG, Soccer Analytics of Bundesliga in R
BlogRStatisticsData Science|germany|Rposted by Gordon Fleetwood May 15, 2016
Within soccer’s nascent analytics movement, one metric dominates most discussions. It’s called Expected Goals or xG. Models for calculating xG differ, but the underlying concept is the same. In a nutshell, xG takes a shot’s characteristics – distance from goal, angle from goal, root cause, etc.... Read more