[Albion] Albion Analytics

Stat Brother said:

AA not telling us anything we didn't already know:-
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[tweet]1176167295300833283[/tweet] Only SIX teams have had more shots inside the box that us.......

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Guy Fawkes said:

What it also doesn't tell you is the position of the shot or how likely it's going to go in (for example, Maupay's shot vs Newcastle was extremely unlikely to go in given where it was taken from, the angle, the closeness of the defender and also the position of the keeper)

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Bakero said:

The xg stats take this into account and suggest we should have scored more than we have. Also, we should have conceded less. The opposition being more clinical than us is the story of the season so far, Watford aside.

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Gregory2 said:

counting how many balls went in the onion bag is easier surely

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Gritt23 said:

I do love a bit of analytics but it needs to show something we don't already know, and flesh it out with some reasoning as to why that may be the case.

For example, if the Albion were significantly worse defensively without Bruno in the side, and many on here see that as a flaw with Montoya. But if some analytics could take it further and show that it's not about Montoya, it's about the make-up of the rest of the defence needing the guidance of the experience Bruno brings, which marshals the whole defence. Maybe it's influenced by who is at right back AND left back. If D&D have to guide both Bernardo and Montoya each side of them, maybe with a language issue going on, then that proves harder than just guiding Bernardo when Bruno is the other side, or just guiding Montoya when Bong is the other side.

It needs to scratch deeper than showing us that we were worse in the 2nd half of last season.

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