From my article dropping tomorrow: I know the percentages seem small, but contrary to prevalent narratives, teams in the 'Big 5' leagues move the ball into dangerous areas through dribbling more and more every passing season.

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This is what things look like with shot-creating actions, which places a larger emphasis on creation through dribbling and passing, minus factoring in shot quality. Some of the changes from the one for xG/xA are thoroughly interesting.

I know there's more of the OG analytics twitter here, so I know youse are the right bunch to discipline me into adopting better methods :)

Experimenting with ways to measure 'consistency' in contributing to shots game-by-game. I've made a simple attempt with the 'coefficient of variation' for PL big 6 forwards' xG and xA figures, and this seems to be a decent start, albeit simplistic. More explanation in the follow-up.