Your guide to the Data Hub

xG (expected goals) is the one number worth understanding. Every shot is scored from 0 to 1 on how likely it was to go in, based on where it was taken. A tap-in might be 0.7, a hopeful 30-yarder 0.03. Add up a team’s shots and you get how many goals their chances were worth. That is a fairer read of a game than the scoreline, which one lucky bounce can swing. Most of the hub builds on it.

Open any match and it reads top to bottom like a report, not a spreadsheet.

• • The hero. Score, xG beneath it, and one verdict (Dominant, Deserved win, Tight game, Fortunate win, and so on).
• • Match in 30 seconds. The three most notable things that happened, picked automatically.
• • Result verdict. Was it deserved or lucky, on a five-point scale, with a plain-English “how much of this was luck?” read.
• • Match Story. The whole game on one chart: xG building for both sides, goals, cards and subs, with Aberdeen above the line and the opponent below. Toggle between the running total and every individual shot.
• • How it was won or lost. The key numbers grouped into chance creation, territory and defending, each next to the season average.
• • Player performance. Player of the Match, standouts, and the starting XI on a pitch with ratings.
• • Where it ranks. How the display stacked up against Aberdeen’s other games this season.

Use the Prev and Next arrows at the top to move between matches.

The words you’ll see

The full detail on how every number is worked out lives on the Methodology and Glossary pages.