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Analytics and modelling in women's football
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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.