An xG of Their Own: Using Expected Goals to Explore the Analytical Shortcomings of Misapplied Gender Schemas in Football

Author:

Narayanan Sachin1ORCID,Pifer N. David1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

Abstract

Although professional women’s football has benefitted from recent surges in popularity, challenges to progress and distinguish the sport persist. The gender-schema theory explains the tendency for individuals to hold female sports to male standards, a phenomenon that leads to negative outcomes in areas such as media representation and consumer perception. One area in which schemas have a more discreet effect is player and team performance, where the assumption that technical metrics developed in men’s football are transferable to women’s football remains unfounded. Using expected goals, a metric synonymous with the probability of a shot being scored, we highlight how variables important to shot quality and shot execution differ across gender, and how attempts to evaluate female footballers with models built on men’s data increase estimation errors. These results have theoretical and practical implications for the role they play in reframing schemas and improving the methods used to evaluate performance in women’s sports.

Publisher

Human Kinetics

Subject

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management,Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine,General Decision Sciences

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