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What are Expected Goals?
Devin Pleuler, the Manager of Analytics for Toronto FC, described Expected Goals in a post for OptaPro in 2014 – “Expected Goals is a calculation that is attached to each attempted shot and measures it’s chance of resulting in a goal.”
“The method of calculation differs between models (and the iterations of those models), but they…