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Model Behaviour: Converting shots into goals

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Player Dashboards explained

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Hopefully you've had a chance to look at the new player dashboard which has launched this week and can be found here or by following the link on the menu bar above. I'm sure that for the most part the data is self explanatory but I thought it might be useful to quickly run through the new features so you can get the most out of them. Let's start with the points section: 1. Here we simply see the players' actual points by week plotted against their expected total. One key to note here is that the expected number is based on their actual  shot data rather than the forecast number that will be given each gameweek starting with this one. Point being, the expected number shows how many points we'd expect a given player to score given all the other events observed from his performance. 2. This is a somewhat crude depiction of how each players' points total was earned. You can hover over each slice of pie for an explanation, namely: Appearance (less yellow a...