Table 5 GBM results for xGA vs combined KPIs.

From: Context is key: normalization as a novel approach to sport specific preprocessing of KPI’s for match analysis in soccer

Variable

Relative importance

Scaled importance

Percentage (%)

Blocks

90,860.570

1.000

54.4

Tkl + Int

36,498.390

0.402

21.8

NormBlocks

24,005.883

0.264

14.4

NormTkl + Int

15,775.142

0.174

9.4