From statsbomb, this data is from 22/23 season and groups passes into bins based on expected results.

Raya was consistently better on the harder passes than Ramsdale.

    • bad_at_proofs@alien.topB
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      Agreed. I am of the opinion that Raya is much better than Ramsdale but I don’t think we should be using this data given the relative context

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        What does a goalkeeper’s passing success have to do with how a team plays? Really?

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          I mean the whole point of plotting pass completion against expected is to account for those differences. Play style might explain a difference in the number of difficult/low-expected completion passes attempted but it can’t really explain away differences in completion rates of similarly difficult passes.

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              Sure it’s not perfect, but I don’t think having to play a few games with Eddie Nketiah over the season explains a consistent 20 percentage point difference between the two, either

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                Why do you think that? Toney is well known for being brilliant in duels. Nketiah is quite poor. Why do you think that difference wouldn’t be explained by that?

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    I don’t understand the metric: what is an expected pass completion? is it percent completion based on all keepers that made a similar pass under similar circumstances?

    I remember looking up xG and xA on Opta once and that was the gist of how “exepected” things were computed.

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    Ramsdale hits every single one of his 82% expected to be completed passes, hell yeah