What Are Expected Assists (xA) and why they are important | The Best Way To Assess Creativity

Assists are a useful method of assessing the creativity of a player, however, they can be very misleading. A stat that will serve you better in this context is expected assists (xA). This video explains what expected assists are and more so you can see how creative players like Messi, Silva, De Bruyne, Modric, Pogba and more stack up against each other.

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[FootballMadeSimple]

Hi guys. I will now be uploading twice a week so hopefully, you enjoy the increased frequency. Next video is out on Friday, but as always any suggestions for future videos are welcomed.

[zozo]

Great job man, looking forward to see something about defending effectiveness as well

[pseudonim]

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[AAlfredjoseph]

Your channel is gonna grow.. Great one!

[loro]

Please share where you get your xA and xG stats from

[xifangyangren]

Fascinating. I'm glad they figured out the folly of the old way.

[jakemitchell]

Great video, favourite channel on YouTube!

[fahimmuntasir]

What have you done. Now I see football much more differently.

[shehumusa]

True, the present assist system is very very misleading.its not the best way of accessing creativity .

[mulamulelilumadi]

Re the Pogba v Silva comparison, is there a way of accounting for the systems they play in, City and Utd don't create goal scoring chances the same way after all.

[sirdave]

If it’s possible can you do a tactical analysis of Gasperini’s Atalanta

[PramaAdityaPutra]

So does understat use the most modern method of measuring xA like you said in the video?

[avivlamech-kalambi]

Duvan Zapata/Krzyatif Piatek analysis?

[victorcovarrubias]

What do you use for the football animations in your videos?

[SushantGupta_]

do u have a video which explain difference b/w Xa, key passes & Big chance created.

[KMD-qjqc]

Thought the entire premier league season not a single player has managed to get past him. I think this is more impressive then scoring (in my opinion) 38 goals in a weaker league. He completely transformed the Liverpool dafance from conceding the most goals out of the top six to the least, while leading them to compete with Man City in the title race and possibly got them a Champions League win. Don’t get me wrong I still think Messi is the Goat but this season Van Dajk has been the best player and deserves the ballondor

[austinlangdon]

I’m not sure the type of pass is a perfect metric. Deep lying playmakers May be unfairly judged because their creativity may consist of long passes into space. Or a fullback may put in brilliant crosses that get judged as less valuable than the cutback pass.

[farhangzahed]

How to measure defensive capabilities? These are only for attacking players

[khairilanwarmasri]

In other words, silva > pogba... 🤭🤭🤭