Nothing about that changes anything about my opinion. Nor does it empirically prove me wrong.
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Goals - Assists - Minutes for top NYCFC players.
Villa: 8 - 4 - 910
Maxi: 6 - 7 - 1425
Izzy: 7 - 1 - 733
Medina: 2 - 6 - 1093
Jo: 3 - 0 - 1028
Villa: 8 - 4 - 910
Maxi: 6 - 7 - 1425
Izzy: 7 - 1 - 733
Medina: 2 - 6 - 1093
Jo: 3 - 0 - 1028
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Come on, dude. Don’t make me explain how you’re misusing xG if you think it disproves what I said. I really don’t feel like being coherent right now.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here. Doesn't the fact that Villa gets more actual goals than would be expected from a good average player indicate that he has moments of brilliance beyond what an average player could achieve? Isn't that what a positive G-xG means?
The problem with a stat like G-xG is that it's an average, or a summation. If Villa has a bad run for a few games you'd expect that number to decrease, but averaged over the whole of last season for example he scored 1 1/2 goals for every normally expected goal. Seems kind of phenomenal. And so far this is his third year in a row of doing that for us.
I think what he's trying to say is that Villa's made a big splash by coming to MLS and playing for us. Or something. Or I could be confused. I dunno.
I think dummyrun is just trolling me because sometimes that’s fun for anyone.
Just like I knew someone would come with the xG stats when I made the statement. Where I went wrong was I overestimated my ability to just not worry with defending my position.
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Not trolling, just trying to help. One cool thing about the ASA tables is that they have a date filter, so if you've got a sense of when these yips happened we could go looking for them that way.
Sorry. They don’t have the Villa hat trick (side netting, bleachers and right at the keeper) numbers. But he has racked up quite a few, especially in 2015.
If I were going to look for more recent examples (and I’m not), I’d start with games we dominated and lost. But all of that seems painful and really not worth it.
Also, if fails to account for him taking shots with low xG and occasionally converting. Or stated otherwise, those instances cover up lack of “clinical-ness”.
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Being clinical does have a way of covering up a lack of clinicalness, doesn't it.
Nah but for real this is an interesting conversation and has me playing around with the spreadsheets, I'll see if I can come up with a helpful viz.
Go to town, brother. Happy to see what you come up with, even if you empirically prove my eyes deceive. (Which I’ll acknowledge publicly while secretly holding onto the narrative I created from my personal observations)
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We'd have to look at other seasons and players to see whether this chart tells us anything useful about yips, but I think it's fun regardless.
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