James Tippett - The Expected Goals Philosophy
James Tippett is the author of The Expected Goals Philosophy: A Game-Changing Way of Analysing Football. Among the topics discussed in this episode: - His initial exposure to expected goals - What prompted him to write this book - An overview of the expected goals statistic and how it’s calculated - Using expected goals both descriptively and predictively - Reaction to Brentford’s rise as an analytics club - How expected goals is used in English media - What’s next on the soccer analytics front - Attending one of the year’s top sporting events Show links - The Expected Goals Philosophy on Amazon - Twitter: @JamesTippett, @xGPhilosophy - Twitter thread with chapter-by-chapter summary - Book excerpt: Do clinical finishers exist? - Book excerpt: What do Lionel Messi and Ryan Fraser have in common?
