{"id":696123,"date":"2026-05-26T17:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/696123\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:39:09","slug":"premier-league-table-who-won-on-set-pieces-xg-long-shots-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/696123\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League table: Who won on set pieces, xG, long shots and more?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now, I already know exactly what you&#8217;re thinking &#8211; &#8220;It&#8217;s real points that count, not expected ones!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And yes, you&#8217;re right, points win prizes and that&#8217;s why the real league table is the only one that matters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But expected points (xPTS) are useful for football analysts because they can serve as a decent indicator of whether a team over or under-performed across the course of a season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Expected points are calculated by comparing the quality of goalscoring chances a team makes (xG) and concedes (xGA) in every match throughout the campaign, and shows what the impact would have been on the team&#8217;s points total.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In theory, it measures how genuinely strong a team&#8217;s attacking and defensive performance was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now, I already know exactly what you&#8217;re thinking &#8211; &#8220;It&#8217;s real points that count, not expected ones!&#8221; And&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-696123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}