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Not enough games played in 24/25 to produce one of these yet. But in the two league games he's conceded 3 goals from 1.9 PSxG which isn't very good. Obviously small sample size though.

Preston's Osmajic banned 8 games for biting https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c8djymm9qq1o

How many keepers have improved while at the club in recent years? lol

Because he keeps chopping and changing them. Dovin's done nothing wrong this season but been dropped. Collins was actually fine for his first spell last season. Then he gets dropped for a 3 game run where we lose two and concede 5. Then he comes back in and really tailed off at the end of the...

The answer is no. 2 goals in 142 appearances 💀

Football is infinite in the sense that when a player has possession there are an infinite number of things they could do with it; dribble in any direction for any distance; pass any distance, any length, with any type of height on the ball; shoot at any area of the goal with any power and curl...

His shooting is crap. Has he ever scored a non-deflected goal for us?

xThreat is probably similar to what you’re suggesting but I think it’s too limited to be useful. I suspect in the coming years AI may be able to get closer to what you want. But it’s never going to be anything like as good as stockfish is, for the reasons I mentioned.

You seriously don’t understand why it is impossible to mathematically analyse a football match in the same manner as a turn based board game? Lmao There is very finite set of possible moves each turn in a game of chess. Football doesn’t even have turns. Honestly this is one of the weirdest...

??? Chess has a finite number of moves/states. Football is infinite.

Obviously no single number is going to be able to accurately capture how a team performed over a whole game of football. But it is certainly very useful. I’d be interested why you think it isn’t.

I’m not even sure what you mean

Xg is just a quantitative measure of chances created, which is the main factor people use to discuss a teams performance anyway.

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It’s not all about goals. His all round game on Tuesday was very good. Wright doesn’t score the second without him pressuring the defender. Long term I think Simms and Bassette have more potential, but I’d stick with BTA for now.

I agree, pretty sure he’ll stick with it anyway. Also from what I’ve seen so far I don’t want BTA playing on the right.

But the team he picked v spurs was slightly rotated. He was angry with himself because he knew it wasn’t his best side, but got carried away off the back of one good performance. The team he picked on Tuesday was what he felt his best side would be, he’ll pick it again.