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Month: June 2025

  • Soccer Team Ratings II – Fixture Adjustments

    Introduction In this article I am going to consider the topic of adjusting team ratings for schedule strength.  All fans will know that teams will on average perform better against opposition that is ranked lower in the table and worse against opposition ranked higher.  This blog is all about the predictive and we don’t want…

  • Soccer Team Ratings I – Introduction & How can we make raw xG more predictive?

    Since I started working on my soccer team ratings around 9 years ago, my goal has been to make my rating system as predictive as possible.  xG models are popular because they contain useful descriptive information as well as being more predictive than simpler metrics such as goal difference/points/shot ratio. For a rating to be…