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 one of the year’s top sporting events

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?