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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Every shot a team takes is assigned a score from 0 to 1 based on how likely it is that someone would score from where/how that shot was taken. For example, a penalty kick counts as 0.79 xG because PKs score roughly 79% of the time. Shots from within the 18 yard box are generally going to have a higher xG score than those from outside the box. Shots from in the 6 are going to be even higher, etc.

    So the full-time xG scores presented here are the total of all the xG scores of all the shots that both teams took. We didn’t have very high quality shots throughout the game. City had slightly better, but still not great.

    Going purely off the history/stats of similar shots to what both teams took, it was fairly unexpected for either team to have scored a goal in the match, which I think was kinda borne out by the eye test, and the fact that our one goal only came from fluking in off of Ake’s face.

    Further reading: https://theanalyst.com/na/2023/08/what-is-expected-goals-xg









  • Loved it so far! Can only imagine how people who haven’t watched Rebels are dealing, though.

    Sad that Thrawn is where he is, though, as that almost certainly rules out what I was hoping to see in the series (being vague for spoiler reasons).

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    Thrawn being in a completely separate galaxy pretty much rules out the idea of the Grysks being part of the story, and Ahsoka + Spectres would need to team up with him to defeat them in an enemy-of-my-enemy sort of situation.






  • I’m a little puzzled by the whole “walking away from you” and “Master” bits in the trailer, since they didn’t really have a relationship other than fellow insurgents in Rebels.

    Remember that Rebels ended before the Battle of Yavin. There were about 5 years between the main story finale and the epilogue, which would have been plenty of time for Ahsoka to spend some time training and then subsequently abandoning Sabine ahead of their reunion shown in the epilogue.