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Hhhhhkohhhhh (
talk) 03:36, 11 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete An non-notable article.
Hhhhhkohhhhh (
talk) 03:36, 11 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete See
WP:NEO. This is not a notable phrase, only a recently-invented "statistic" that has limited acceptance and dubious usefulness. It needs be widely accepted before we put it in an encyclopedia. It's not even in Wiktionary yet.
Jack N. Stock (
talk) 07:53, 11 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete - no evidence of notability.
GiantSnowman 13:32, 12 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete - The theory is interesting, but there is no way this article is notable. Maybe this article and articles like it could be merged under an article called "
List of Association Football Formulae" or something like that?
BirdsgeekTalk 16:41, 13 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep - Seems to be a significant level of coverage on this metric across a number of academic papers covering its usage in a number f different sports. To be honest, don't see any reasonable deletion rationale above. Would be useful if other editors could comment on the sources in the text.
Fenix down (
talk) 13:53, 14 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: I know this looks like a no-brainer to close as delete, but as
User:Fenix down points out, there's been no discussion of the sources and that should happen before this is closed.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, --
RoySmith(talk) 00:41, 18 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 14:52, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep, common term widely used throughout sport. Plenty of coverage to pass
WP:N. --Jimbo[online] 22:10, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
An interesting case: the entire article probably needs some
WP:TNT as it's relaying a lot of information from academic articles, et cetera. As to whether it's notable, Wikipedia is a lagging indicator of notability, and while Expected Goals is a relatively new statistic, it's certainly one that is being used more often from an analytical approach to soccer, and as Jmorrison230582 noted has been discussed by several major news outlets. I'm going to vote Keep or at the very least draftify but this article needs some major work.
SportingFlyertalk 21:37, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Music1201talk 18:35, 4 March 2018 (UTC)reply
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