YoungWolf
World Cup 2014 PTG Champion - Not actually that Yo
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yeah depends what’s on that bloody iPad!!! My guess it is a delayed live feed though. May have some data on it too though I guess.That's one of the conclusions the article came to as well which is fair.
Although they weren't sure it was chicken or egg.
I don't know either way. I do worry that Hobbs and GoN are obsessed by stats and I think that would be a bad thing as the game is in front of them and their change will change stats rather than stats dictating their changes.
That's more me and my tinfoil hat though.
This is not a pro or con for stats but I’d be stunned if any club at this level isn’t at least tweaking things based on analytics.
The xG allowed per shot number for us is shocking to me and doesn’t match my eye test, but it’s no less the case that we have so far been good at limiting quality chances. Makes our results all the more damning, in some ways.
I suppose if you look at the goals we’ve conceded in isolation it makes more sense though. Quite a few from outside the area or angled finishes. I think we’ve conceded 7 xG in these 5 games, which isn’t horrific, so hopefully we have a bit more luck soon. Can’t have our cake and eat it though, plenty of games we rode on the swing of things going our way in that sense, now going the other way.
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