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James Tippett - The Expected Goals Philosophy
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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 an all-time great sporting event
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?
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