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.
So Ramsdale is better at the easier passes? What implication does this info have?
Brentford playstyle vs Arsenal
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
What does this have to do with style of play?
What does a goalkeeper’s passing success have to do with how a team plays? Really?
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.
But that doesn’t take into account who they’re passing to, just the relative positions and distance.
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
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?
Ramsdale hits every single one of his 82% expected to be completed passes, hell yeah
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.
