I Hired Premier League Analysts to Scout The Sidemen

[@luis541]

after simon mentioned it on the podcast I was like "no way he just did it for himself, please use it chris"

[@Madboiwastaken]

Not wanting to sound plastic, but what's the context?

[@darraghmanning3420]

Fairly sure it was mentioned on the Fellas aswell

[@fads232]

@@Madboiwastaken Simon mentioned it in his podcast last episode

[@azzaboy600]

@James-Michael Robinson lmao

[@abzinhoo]

Ok

[@RatioBozo69]

Seeing Ricegum call for the ball when he's kilometers offside still cracks me up💀

[@luxsux2650]

Ik bro plays american 'soccer' 💀

[@RatioBozo69]

@@luxsux2650 bro's like "pass me the ball, I'm so open"😂

[@Madboiwastaken]

He defo calls it soccer 💀

[@fuhh5063]

@@Madboiwastaken nearly most american born people calls it soccer thats just how it is, i say both since im from america and another country that does use the word "soccer", so i say either one depending on who im talking to

[@ArunaUtd]

Speed type beat.. Nah but fr at least Speed has some semblance of ability. Rice was just the worst.

[@foodreacts837]

Seeing Chris in the Sdmn's team is gonna be a sight to see

[@djsejwal2]

Sdmn team has more proper footballers.

[@T4_444]

After watching this, its an understandable transfer for him

[@mikkelahlskog2344]

Judas

[@scottishjedi1522]

Having him, Simon, Tobi and Manny on one team is crazy.

[@T4_444]

@@scottishjedi1522 noah beck is probably gonna be the best player there and hes on youtube allstars as well as theo baker

[@kevokent4230]

Chris uploading more than he's ever done in the last 2 years!!

[@itsytyt5192]

Gg

[@TheNotoriouzBOB]

Didn’t realise how shocking that team was. Genuinely might be the worst team ever assembled

[@LuisRamirez-xs3xn]

Please make the stats viewable online. This was actually super interesting.

[@jerrysmith68]

Look at some of the passes Chris plays this video man. It’s actually unreal football by him. He’s gonna be phenomenal tomorrow with someone like Simon up top to finish those perfect passes he gives.

[@RobaMostarRoba]

I love how passionate you are about this, makes it a better watch

[@matthewrickard5050]

honestly i wasn’t super super interested in this but chris’ enthusiasm carried it for me

[@Arthur_TV]

Scouting your own teammates, like KZbin’s Wayne Rooney - footballing genius on the pitch, single digit IQ off it 😂

[@Dragonbeasy]

hi arthur how are u

[@itz_dubzfn9545]

Yes Arthur buzzin

[@lucidxeditz]

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[@Arthur_TV]

@@Dragonbeasy good thanks man how are you

[@itz_dubzfn9545]

Yo yes Arthur what you sayin

[@samkitchin5350]

I beg Chris does a match analysis of tomorrow's game like he did back in the day

[@Benzy670]

As someone that loves stats, charts, and analytical breakdowns - I wish more of life had scouting reports! Imagine having a stat breakdown for everything 😂

[@j0ee07]

chris dying while watching the youtube all stars miss chances has made my day

[@kyle8898]

2 videos in a week? What drugs has Christopher taken!?

[@hdogga06]

It’ll be his last few videos before he gets scouted by Crawley 😂😂

[@CMWN1544]

These videos were both recorded months ago

[@jackoconnell4399]

Must’ve been hanging out with Harry recently

[@tccc2011]

XG

[@saeed_05]

The drug is called 2nd channel

[@tobiaslof1011]

dont forget how many times sidemen let you through just to see if you could score it or not

[@i3p973]

I wished he use xT which shows how threatening each team was cause Chris would have lost it

[@jlong0245]

Such a good video Chris. I did that Statsbomb course a while ago and it was really good. I enjoyed it so much I'm now doing a sports analysis degree.

[@davidhall5838]

I beg you make that public, I would love to go through all those stats 📈

[@fayzaantancrel2683]

I saw this in the podcast and was hoping he would make a video on it and here we are!!

[@sugarbutty8295]

I genuinely just couldn’t stop laughing watching the quality. I didn’t remember it being that bad 😂

[@TarunXD]

the last part of the video was the most interesting. hope we could see more of the overall stats

[@owendowney9169]

I'm 15 and this video inspired me and now i've been coding my own xg, heatmap, xt, xga etc. models using python. Granted, python isnt the most sophisticated and im no data scientist but so far its been working well. My xg calculator works well, same with xt, and my heatmap code works just needs a few tweaks.

[@patrickduff4094]

love this chris really like the analytic side of football

[@foodreacts837]

I also find this quite intresting , its very cool to see the Stats

[@declanneville5081]

That nonce joke within the first minute caught me so off guard!!! 😂😂😂

[@stepanp7230]

From captain to traitor, what a storyline

[@CalumHortonSKI]

That touch from Simon when Hugh was out his goal was world class

[@HienLe-lc3tq]

and he did it again when Cal was way out of the box

[@milogunther5024]

I want to see this for every Charity match and Wembley Cup game, and open to the public. These stats are things I love

[@tvdg2482]

No words for that performance, after half time I'd just taken each run myself until we were drawn up at least.

[@aarons745]

Loved the analysis in this video, I forgot just how many chances KZbin Allstars missed in that game 😭. You can’t blame Chris for switching sides on the evidence of this video. I’m expecting a masterclass from him for Sidemen FC tomorrow.

[@JBKShadow09]

I love how in the stats some players have their KZbin names and some their full government ones 😂

[@dhrubankadutta2245]

One of the guys in my course did this type of analysis for the entire 2018 Barca squad for his thesis. All this stuff is really fucking cool

[@Juju25118]

a huge nerd for stuff like this, keep it coming

[@Oscxr_-fq7nj]

The 2017 game was by far the best in terms of quality, a close game more passes linked together some good defending. But bcos the audience is 50% people not interested in football who just want to watch the sidemen it was called “boring” and then just cos of the magnitude of goals but horrible quality this and the first one are the better ones according to most. Hoping for a more even and higher quality but still fun game like the 2nd one was

[@WRBhammer]

Chris - the guy who refereed this Sidemen match is one of my close friends. He would probably be up for speaking about that game if you want that for a video - just get in touch. Might not be up for it now though given there's a new charity match happening later today.

[@conor459]

Quality vid, hopefully you’ll do this for the game tomorrow aswell

[@keeganwilson4865]

Hope that Speed can be his hero for a day, can’t wait to see him playing in Yeezy cleats.

[@devaldyjonathan]

i bet they're having so much fun analyzing that game 😂

[@michaelslater5669]

So atleast we know in 3 years Chris will do another video for the stats from this years game 👊👊

[@lj671]

I'm so nerdy when it comes to football this video was ideal for me keep it up Chris!

[@zekey1135]

Need to do it again but with this last game that passed

[@devanshsanghavi]

It would be great if you could share a link of the whole analysis Chris

[@superdudeyang8705]

7:40 wtf happened to the ball lmaooo

[@Naty5HD]

As a fellow stats merchant, I love this vid.

[@marcbailey160]

Chris will probably never see this but in my course I’ve chosen a title on sports analysis and I would love the data from the match, he’s a busy guy and I’m sure he’ll never see this but such an amazing creator one of the 🐐’s ❤❤

[@fade.opeditz7545]

This is such a Chris thing to do I love it 😭

[@azmnzo]

waiting for an upload from chris, massive W

[@AshTheBeast07]

The Van Persie of youtube charity matches...

[@ishaandw]

one thing to note is that teams chasing a game for long periods can rack up a XG quickly

[@User92584]

You need to do this again on the most recent match

[@Zaccybacon]

took your time to release this

[@foodreacts837]

the teams look so even i love it

[@jasperrowell4470]

This next one with speed and Mr beast is Gonna be so good

[@jobveldhuizen7089]

I recently watched this match back and I was laughing my socks off for almost the entire game cant wait till 3 pm cest

[@mrcurlywurly9338]

Chrissy boy dixon is the reason i still wake up in the morning

[@tadhgeoghancarraher3222]

I just realized Chris MD is Max Fosh if he was sporty

[@aircrashbandit]

This indeed one of the uploads by Chris Dixon.

[@NMR_Racing_Tape]

I don’t know how you do it but wow!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@NoahTheArk23]

You should definitely do this for every year

[@MontMich]

Phenomenal video idea! This was fantastic!

[@MrSharkFIN]

I bow understand why you're playing for the Sidemen this year.

[@CainySNP]

And so he can finally be against noah beck

[@Rubenvde]

Interesting video. Hope you do another one for tomorrow's game.

[@loutboyxoxo]

You look so happy reading the stats😂 bless your soul Chris mate

[@jjmuti3979]

The oversight here is probably that the model assumes that the players shoot at the average level of a pro/pro in their position which would skew the expected goals up massively. I'd also argue that average shooting ability of the sidemen team was better for example comparing Simon vs. Deji taking the most high danger shots for their teams respectively.

[@shortyned7140]

Bro deji was missing open goals that a toddler could score. 6.5 XG doesn't even seem that high if you look at the footage of chances being missed

[@John-jt2is]

This videos git me so hyped the match today 🔥

[@jamesflynn8448]

4:27 OMG CHRIS SWEARED!1!1!1!1

[@markpalleschi5172]

This makes me wanna watch the stream tomorrow

[@SOMALIAIRDROP]

Idk what to say other than a disaster of losing open goals 🤣

[@lebjam9052]

Oh, this was what Theo was talking about in the What's Good podcast

[@hypeclaneu]

Im so excited for this game. I actually think it will be very good quality

[@bballkidnj9]

Chris, you're the best for this (and a number of other reasons)

[@Roobenstein]

Bring back Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis!

[@jcmcgee1573]

Surely we see this again after the next one!

[@RoryHanna]

Oh so this is why scouts are coming to the match.

[@hrishiv]

I see the Sol Campbell wallpaper Chris, you JUDAS!

[@cg19Football]

Can't wait for speed to pull up in his yeezy foamrollers and absolutely obliterate someone in the first minute!😂🤣

[@kalebtaylor8911]

Cant wait for 3 years from now. The next charity match will happen and this video will be made for this years game

[@scottsutton7]

I love this so much. I did work on Performance Analysis at Uni and now work in Research and statistics because of this sort of stuff. Please do for the game this weekend. Also good luck for the game

[@Muffinpurplegurk]

Hughwizzy is a living legend

[@HIQ45]

Teams for this year aren't really fair, Sidemen looking stronger, idk why Don Strapzy wasn't called up for KZbin Allstars

[@benmoulton7185]

Crawley Town unironically scouting this match 😂

[@harryscott9243]

that monitor wallpaper rattled spurs fans hahaha

[@JSmellerM]

Is StatBomb also working with Non-shot-xG?

[@philliplooker339]

So it was chris who got Crawley to do some scouting

[@reaperfourtyseven]

KZbin sports career needs to happen like KZbin boxing

[@ripyka4977]

Hugh Wizzy had great positioning in net but I feel like every opportunity to make a save he'd just fall down

[@Josh-zp2ce]

Why did it put Suggs full name 😭

[@em_si]

This is actually a sick vid!

[@Mattras7]

Well the xG is better for KZbin Allstars, but you have to account for rebounds after the initial shot. For example, if the first shot is scored, then the xG of the rebound(s) wouldn't have been there. There was about 1.3 xG in a single chance which you mentioned, while the first shot was only 0.53. Seems like the Sidemen had less rebounds so also less xG, it doesn't mean that they were worse than you

[@conor459]

It’s true, this has always been the one downside to the Expected Goals stat

[@advenco344]

@@conor459 Not really. This might be true if you only look at a single game, but over the course of many games it paints an accurate picture of how often you create chances and the quality of them.

[@Djordymans]

To me this shows why XG doesn’t make a lot of sense. Like sure they scored an 0.2 XG. So? They scored. And they are comparing it to a professional gk. 90% of those shots should be 0.000001 XG because they hardly have power behind them for a professional gk to struggle with them.

[@conor459]

@@advenco344 that’s what I mean, xG can be misleading for a single game

[@advenco344]

@@conor459 yes I agree on that

[@__Saba_]

You will NEVER be forgiven for betraying KZbin FC

[@BestBoyPatrick]

God I remember how hilariously shit that match was. I remember the idea being that the year before had been too good and didn’t have enough goals because the CB’s were actually really solid. Then this happened

[@GOAThka-ni6ho]

@Chris Dixon can i get the csv/excel file of the stats, I could use it for my Machine Learning project?

[@fishstar2974]

After this you need to do another Stephen tries blockhead guy and w2s video

[@thunderbladeedits6437]

I enjoyed this analysis 😂😂

[@tx2040]

Imagine if they got CBS sports to do a full segment on tomorrow's game 😂😂😂😂😂

[@a.l.a.n.a]

chris just cackling through the pain

[@Louisljh5]

Don’t think we’ll forget your KZbin Allstars betrayal

[@m_s_d_lyt5791]

SPEEED!! IS PLAYING 0:29

[@DjimJ]

U have to do this with the most recent game

[@Archon006]

what's the song at 9:40?

[@afrenchmax8180]

He's actually posting videos now

[@JosephHerzog]

Best video in a while, laughed the whole time