We Are The Goonies!
More adventures in data that confound the best laid plans of those dastardly managers.
Another week, another set of victories for variance over performance. Both Celtic and The Rangers rack up reasonable positive xG differences, but don’t win. Heart of Midlothian play out a coin flip match at home to Falkirk, barely generate more than 1 xG, and win.
That is not only football, but it has also been so in the SPFL virtually all season.
Hence this series, to shine a light on the stuff the genius managers would rather the children didn’t know about.
In the world of data, we are The Goonies!
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