I did some work on what I’m calling “Primary Chance Creators.” There has been a lot of talk in Austin media/fan discussions about need for a classic 10 or “primary chance creator,” so I wanted to see to what degree teams are reliant on one or two chance creators to a great extent, as well as how a team with a large degree of reliance on one or two players fares in goal scoring / xG. All stats are from FBRef. Buckle up, this is a lot. I took every team from the 2023 and 2024 seasons and found their total number of shot creating actions (SCA), which can include any live ball pass, dead ball pass, take on, shot, foul drawn or defensive action that leads to directy to a shot. (This means that a player can have an SCA and a shot on the same play.) I also found the top two players on each team in SCA, as well as their SCA/90 and the percentage of the team’s total SCA each player had. My final added metric was the delta between a team’s highest and second highest SCA players. Here's the G...
I'm starting to think there isn't much to say on these, but maybe we'll find a rabbit to chase around somewhere. To the maps for the first time in three weeks! The incredible people at 506 Sports make an NFL TV coverage map every week. I enjoy the minutiae of sports more than actual sports in most cases, and I love geography, so this one of my favorite sports-related things to look at. I've been sharing with a group chat and adding some of own highlights and analysis. The length of this endeavor has now exceeded the socially acceptable limit for a post in a group chat, so it's going to live here for as long as I remember to write it. This week's map post can be found here: 506 Sports Week 13 Coverage Map CBS Single Denver at Houston is the sort of national game, with the great Ian Eagle on the call. He's one of the best, and pretty underrated, I think. No Bills this week, so upstate New York gets that one too, along with souther SEC country. The splitting o...