Packing measures teams and players ability to take out opponents with forward passes and dribbles. And it looks as if the more you can do this, the more likely you are to win. The Packing concept is explained in more detail on this article Concerning Packing and in the Glossary. Bypassing players through passing and … [continue reading]
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Top CATs
Inspired by The Rangers Report, whose excellent blog is recommended, I have come up with a new KPI, the Celtic Attacking Threat, or CAT Score. Rangers Report has OSCR (Offensive Statistical Contribution Rating), and I have taken a similar approach with the aim of aggregating attacking data to form an overall view of scoring threat. … [continue reading]
Concerning “Packing”
The “Packing” and “Impect” concepts were introduced in Germany and the firm responsible can be found here: http://www.impect.com/en/ This is a commercial organisation and they have introduced the concept with an aim of selling the data and insight to clubs. Therefore, in the unlikely event they ever found this inconsequential blog, they probably hate that … [continue reading]