By Paul Harvey, Mike Imburgio, Ben Bellman Since it was introduced, Goals Added has been superior to most of the publicly available algorithmic rating systems, such as those provided by WhoScored, SofaScore, or Fotmob. The additional context of just how much each action is contributing to the likelihood of scoring provides more information than simply evaluating a player based on the number of certain actions (the value of those actions also weighted by a human being, introducing bias). Simil...| American Soccer Analysis
By Paul Harvey When Goals Added first entered the public sphere, it marked a major shift in how soccer could be interpreted using data. Although similar models had been developed, it was hard to get data and turn that data into insights. In terms of a unit of account, there are few expected value models as accessible and understandable as g+. Despite the initial success, though, g+ is still an opaque measure in many ways. Much like it’s spiritual father figure, WAR, you lose some of the how...| American Soccer Analysis
By Chloe Sainsbury, Catalina Bush, and Jamon Moore We did Where Goals Come From for MLS, and we’ve reached the roughly one third mark of the NWSL season where we can actually have some takes! Enjoy.| American Soccer Analysis
If Where Goals Come From is new to you or you want a quick refresher of the key concepts, we put a quick overview into the Eastern Conference article. …and that’s enough of an introduction for today. Let’s talk about the teams!| American Soccer Analysis
During the pandemic, when Carlon Carpenter and I researched the impact of certain types of soccer passes, we were blown away by how important they were to goal scoring. We wrote 10 articles about them throughout 2021, called the “Where Goals Come From” series. There was so much material, we could have written 25 articles -- many ideas have never emerged and hopefully will still come out at some point (or we’ll work with clubs to implement as their own competitive advantage). Even from t...| American Soccer Analysis
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Hello and welcome to our 2025 NWSL previews. We’ve got some new writers, some old writers, but lots of exciting analytical insights coming at you ahead of a very exciting 2025 season. You can read all of them here ! We got a preview of this exact match up already, with the Spirit defeating Orla| American Soccer Analysis
Hello and welcome to our 2025 NWSL previews. We’ve got some new writers, some old writers, but lots of exciting analytical insights coming at you ahead of a very exciting 2025 season. You can read all of them here ! If you want some extended audio preview content, check out the xOwn Goals Po| American Soccer Analysis
Hello and welcome to our 2025 NWSL previews. We’ve got some new writers, some old writers, but lots of exciting analytical insights coming at you ahead of a very exciting 2025 season. You can read all of them here ! If you want some extended audio preview content, check out the xOwn Goals Po| American Soccer Analysis
Hello and welcome to our 2025 NWSL previews. We’ve got some new writers, some old writers, but lots of exciting analytical insights coming at you ahead of a very exciting 2025 season. You can read all of them here ! If you want some extended audio preview content, check out the xOwn Goals Po| American Soccer Analysis
Hello and welcome to our 2025 NWSL previews. We’ve got some new writers, some old writers, but lots of exciting analytical insights coming at you ahead of a very exciting 2025 season. You can read all of them here ! If you want some extended audio preview content, check out the xOwn Goals Po| American Soccer Analysis
American Soccer Analysis has announced a deal to provide its advanced data and analytics expertise to Minnesota United FC, after aiding them in their progression to the Western Conference Semifinals in 2024.| American Soccer Analysis
