Player report

Scanning before he receivesHow he stands Does it change what happensThe moments Everyone elseMethod

One match, 58 receptions with body pose

01

How many times does he scan before receiving?

"How many times does he look around before the ball reaches him?"

Scans in the 10 seconds before each reception

One column per number of scans. A scan is one distinct head-turn of at least 30°, measured against the direction of the ball so that a head simply following the ball counts as nothing.

When the scans happen

Every scan by every reception, stacked on a shared clock that ends at the moment the ball reaches him. The pass that feeds him is marked where it is played.

Scan rate

02

How his body is turned when the ball arrives

"Is he open when he gets it, or does he have his back to the play?"

Where he receives, and how he is turned

Every reception, drawn where it happened, with a tick showing which way his shoulders point. Attacking upwards.

Openness at the moment the ball arrives

And how far he gets round in the next 2.5 s

Openness is the angle between his shoulders and the goal he is attacking. 0° is square to that goal, 180° is his back to it.

03

Does his body position change what happens next?

"Does his body position influence whether he turns forward afterwards?"

How he was turned, and whether the ball went forward

Forward = his carry or his release pass moved the ball more than 5 m up the pitch. Small cells are labelled with their count, not dressed up as a rate.

And does scanning more change it?

The same question asked of the scan count instead of the body position.

04

The moments, frame by frame

05

Everyone else on the pitch

Every player with at least 10 receptions that have body pose, both teams, same definitions. One match, so treat the order as indicative.

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How this was built