This mailbag edition of the Managing Madrid Podcast comes in two parts.
Part 1 (Kiyan Sobhani, Ryan O'Hanlan)
- Fernando Torres's retirement
- Metrics to measure positional performance, and what space a player should in on the pitch when his team has the ball
- How xP is calculated
- How Real Madrid underperformed their xP last season
- How much does Zinedine Zidane's three-peat give him a pass?
- Is Paul Pogba's attitude really a significant distraction?
- What does he bring to the table on the pitch?
- Jan Oblak freak stats that make him undeniably the best goalkeeper in the world
- The importance of a ball-playing GK
- What this season peak-Messi?
- And more
Part 2 (Kiyan Sobhani, Matt Wiltse, Gabe Lezra)
- How far away are we from baseball analytics?
- How much would our La Liga form change over the past few years if we consistently had a second striker?
- More lingering Marcos Llorente questions
- Will other players follow Llorente's path?
- Raul as Castilla manager
- Comparing the season to the 2015 / 2016 season
- And more
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