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Day: 13 November 2020

Goalkeeper Resiliency: Measuring Game Difficulty

Goalkeeper Resiliency: Measuring Game Difficulty

One of the most interesting things available in Football Manager 2021 is the ability to track expected Goals, or xG. In combination with Pelham, I think I’ve worked out a useful way to measure what I’m going to call Goalkeeper Resiliency (GR), that is, the degree of difficulty that a goalkeeper is facing, relative to that normally faced by goalkeepers in their league.