56: Standout Stats: Premier League with Mark Carey
The SCOUTED Podcast
English - February 26, 2021 07:00 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSports Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
There's more to life than plain old goals and assists.
This week on the Scouted Football Podcast we're joined by Mark Carey - data analyst at The Athletic and co-host of the Football Fanalytics pod.
We're talking goals, assists, defensive actions, dribbling, carrying, xG, xA - the lot.
7:14 - Dominic Calvert-Lewin, what's changed at Everton and the importance of xG
17:23 - Marcus Rashford, Phil Foden and Expected Assists
24:20 - Mason Mount, xA, the relevance of 'key passes' and the set-piece caveat
31:51 - Trent Alexander-Arnold, losing possession and the creative drop-off
38:58 - Why are defensive stats often possession adjusted (pAdj) and why is it important?
43:59 - Declan Rice, pressing and Passes per Defensive Action (PPDA)
48:34 - Adama Traoré, Pedro Neto and Wolves' world-beating collection of dribblers, or carriers