Goals Added: The Art of the Wheel

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Goals Added: The Art of the Wheel

Look at that. Pretty, right? The colors. The font. The icons. The logo. That tiny beeswarm. All work together to make a pretty damn good visualization. But these things just don’t emerge from a computer fully formed, they take a lot of effort and there are a ton of ways that things can go wrong. Inspired by Peter McKeever’s discussion of his beautiful diamond plots, here are the decisions we made and iterations of this viz along the way to what you see above.

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Visualizing Expected Goals, Actual Goals, and Player Salary

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If you have not heard of Expected Goals (xG) then please have a read of these posts before continuing. 

11tegen11 has written about expected goals (xG) and concluded that it predicts future performance better than other metrics such as Points Per Game (PPG), Goal Ratio, Shots Ratio & Shots on Target Ratio.

Using the interactive visualization, you can see how your favorite players performed each season and how much they earned per season. As you will notice, a number of players "over-perform" and others "under-perform" their xG every season. We could classify them as being "lucky" or "unlucky". Dan Altman in this video explains why this may or may not be the case.

See the interactive graphic after the jump.

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