Beyond the Goal: Visualizing Expected Assists in Soccer

Benoit Pimpaud
Nightingale
Published in
8 min readOct 15, 2019

Basketball games have score lines in the triple digits. An NFL game in 2019 might produce a combined double-digit touchdowns. However, in a low-scoring game such as football (not the NFL, rather, what North American fans know as soccer), the final score often does not provide a clear picture of performance.

Benoit Pimpaud
Nightingale

Data Engineer. Twitter @Ben8t. 👀 From An Engineer Sight: a periodic about data-science, engineering, and design: fromanengineersight.substack.com