Originally Posted by
jloome
Bit harsh.
I assume you're talking about Breza, who is horseshit, but is no longer the starter.
PsXG, like XG, is a nebulous fantasy stat based largely on opinion of where the shot was taken from relative to the goalie's body position. Like xG, it bares no statistical relationship to actual outcomes.
If you go by the somewhat more direct save percentage, Pantemis doesn't look bad at all.
He was better than Bono and less than 1% behind Maxime Crepeau in save percentage, both middle of the pack.
He also a percentage point better than Gaga Slonina, the 18-year-old who just went to Chelsea.
And he was two points better than Sean Johnson, mentioned frequently here.
Hasal is 23, very young for a starting keeper. He was pretty poor at about 65% overall, but again, that's only a few points behind the middle of the pack. (I admit, he looks pretty floppy to me.)
But all of the goalies in the league at the bottom end statistically also had terrible defenses in front of them, so that's probably worth taking into account. Goalies don't always have shit seasons in isolation.
EDIT: There was a good column in the Guardian yesterday from the new owner of a lower level club (Exeter? Someone like that) on how they tried to implement the "moneyball" model of using XG and related stats to calculate value, and how it doesn't work in football. There are too many unpredictable variables.