By Braden Chalker As stats are more present than ever in soccer, the 2023 Major League Soccer season saw some players over-perform their expected goals (xG) tally, while others could’ve been more clinical in front of goal. For those who see xG as a foreign term, it’s a tool used to calculate how many goals a player or team should’ve scored given the quality of chances they had that is based on similar chances scored/taken by other players in the past. It’s become quite popular in the past half-decade, with teams slowly starting to rely on xG as well as other forms of data in their recruitment …