Introducing Expected Pot (xP) - A Snooker Stat
Professional snooker players are required to excel at a range of different skills, the most important being potting. Take a look at the image above, a game between Ken Doherty and Mark King. An interesting question here is “How likely is it Mark King will pot the blue ball”? In Football, a similar question would be “How likely is this player to score from here?” A statistic to answer this is Expected Goals (xG), which takes a shot and assigns it a score between 0 and 1....