Recent content by SBbucks

Really? Their 2 centre backs were far better than either Kitching or Thomas (will reserve judgement on Woolfenden until we’ve seen him).

It’s been the case for several years (at least). Lots of people around us losing their shit about it today, they didn’t believe it when told why he didn’t go off.

Not perfect, but I know who plays on the right and who plays on the left.

You bother making a formation prediction but get the most basic thing wrong…

Why on earth would BTA start on the left if EMC is in the starting lineup?

Try harder. Germany’s xG was 3.1 and they had 14 shots for 7 goals. Nowhere near comparable. Do you have a better example?

Ok, if we’re being pedantic, it was freak occurrence for 7 shots out of 8 to go in. Have you ever seen that before, or anything like it?

We’ve already got 3 wins on the bounce, 4 would be nice[emoji4]

True, it doesn’t account for the actual player (how could it?). From memory, Torp’s second was put as 0.01 xG, effectively saying 1 in 100 shots from that place (with the defence set as it was) would go in. xG stats are useful as a trend over time, not as specific instances.

Correct. There’s actually a very good explanation in The Athletic article yesterday - in short, it was a freak. It was the 3rd largest discrepancy out of over 18600 games across Europe where xG has been recorded. The top 2 were also 7 or 8 goal thrashings.

According to the article yesterday in The Athletic, this was the 3rd largest discrepancy in xG to actual goals in over 18600 games across the major leagues where xG has been recorded. The odds of scoring from all of those 7 shots were calculated at 25000/1. Most of them had an individually very...

Maybe, maybe not.. Good to see they’re preparing though.

As others have said, the tours are great with loads of interesting info and it’s good to see how everything fits together behind the scenes. A couple of interesting snippets from the last one: new Premier league standard floodlights have recently been fitted, and the pitch is being cut to...

The last one was on the first Thursday of the month. The next one is on the last Saturday of the month. Apart from that you’re spot on!