Take a sneak peak at some new Expected Goals 3.0 stats

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By Matthias Kullowatz (@MattyAnselmo)

We have been hard at work on Expected Goals 3.0, which utilizes more-detailed information like distance to goal and angle off center for each shot. Additionally, we have information about the passer on each shot, which has led to the creation of xAssists--a weighted version of key passes. Here are your top 19 players by the sum of xGoals and xAssists. Why 19? Because I can't count.

Name Goals xGoals G - xG Shots Available UnAst Pct KeyP Assists xAssists Cross Pct Through Pct xG + xA
Robbie Keane 19 17.36 1.64 121 6.23 0.16 51 9 8.38 0.07 0.03 25.75
Bradley Wright-Phillips 25 21.42 3.58 101 6.27 0.16 19 1 2.35 0.29 0.12 23.78
Pedro Morales 10 11.33 -1.33 95 6.89 0.42 82 9 8.54 0.02 0.00 19.88
Dominic Dwyer 21 18.05 2.95 107 6.32 0.22 17 1 1.66 0.29 0.08 19.71
Landon Donovan 10 9.13 0.87 61 6.11 0.33 104 14 10.57 0.08 0.05 19.69
Clint Dempsey 14 14.98 -0.98 109 6.54 0.28 39 7 4.35 0.07 0.04 19.32
Obafemi Martins 17 13.19 3.81 73 5.94 0.12 52 9 6.06 0.14 0.12 19.25
Diego Valeri 11 7.91 3.09 98 6.26 0.29 96 10 10.62 0.07 0.02 18.53
Thierry Henry 10 7.59 2.41 84 6.14 0.25 75 10 9.95 0.25 0.04 17.54
Federico Higuain 11 10.68 0.32 70 6.88 0.41 85 6 6.74 0.09 0.01 17.42
Deshorn Brown 10 14.58 -4.58 118 5.60 0.20 15 0 1.33 0.16 0.06 15.91
Giles Barnes 11 12.02 -1.02 105 6.29 0.15 36 5 3.64 0.18 0.06 15.67
Erick Torres 15 14.13 0.87 87 6.47 0.33 20 1 1.51 0.26 0.01 15.64
Sebastien Le Toux 12 10.13 1.87 49 6.14 0.29 39 5 5.31 0.10 0.06 15.44
Javier Morales 9 7.02 1.98 60 6.73 0.50 92 12 8.37 0.02 0.00 15.39
Gyasi Zardes 16 11.13 4.87 71 6.08 0.11 28 2 3.61 0.31 0.10 14.74
Chris Wondolowski 14 11.41 2.59 71 5.99 0.20 27 5 2.53 0.24 0.07 13.94
Lee Nguyen 15 8.01 6.99 78 6.56 0.33 65 4 5.41 0.05 0.00 13.42
Andrew Wenger 7 9.45 -2.45 62 5.48 0.16 29 4 3.90 0.18 0.06 13.36

Available: Average width of goal mouth available per shot, calculated from angle and distance.

KeyP: Key passes are passes that lead to a shot. We only count the final pass before the shot here.

CrossPct: The percentage of key passes delivered via a cross.

ThroughPct: The percentage of key passes delivered via a through ball.

xG + xA: The sum of expected goals and expected assists.