Measuring Football Players' On-the-ball Contributions From Passes During Games

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new method to quantify football players' contributions during games by evaluating the expected impact of their passes on the scoreline, addressing a gap in existing performance metrics.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel approach that measures players' on-the-ball contributions from passes based on their expected impact on the scoreline, expanding beyond shot quality metrics.

Findings

The proposed method effectively quantifies pass impact during matches.

It provides a more comprehensive assessment of player contributions.

The approach bridges the gap between pass actions and scoring impact.

Abstract

Several performance metrics for quantifying the in-game performances of individual football players have been proposed in recent years. Although the majority of the on-the-ball actions during games constitutes of passes, many of the currently available metrics focus on measuring the quality of shots only. To help bridge this gap, we propose a novel approach to measure players' on-the-ball contributions from passes during games. Our proposed approach measures the expected impact of each pass on the scoreline.