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Analytics and modelling in women's football

Summary

Reviews the data company’s research on modelling expected goals (xG) and expected pass completion (xP), and how best to approach modelling men’s and women’s football. In both cases, a ‘gender-aware’ model (combining data from both men’s and women’s football, but where the data’s gender is a model feature) was a better approach than a ‘gender-specific’ or ‘gender-unaware’ model.