Tag: expected goals model

• May 19, 2014

  A Shooting Model – An Exp(G)lanation and Application

  If you’re a follower of the growing analytics movement in football you’ll probably have heard of the term ‘expected goals model’. The term may have been shortened to ExpG, xG or something, but whatever it’s been named, it’s basically a shots model. What’s a shots model, then? A shots model puts a theoretical goal value…