Quantifying the Performance of Individual Players in a Team Activity
Figure 5
Visualization of the three knockout-phase matches of the Spanish team.
Node position is determined by the player's field position and node number refers to the player's jersey number. Nodes are color-coded by the z-score of the passing accuracy of the player, and sized according to the player's performance. The width of the arcs grows exponentially with the number of passes successfully completed between two players, whereas the color indicates the normalized arc flow centrality. This representation of the “flow networks” allows us to encode a large amount of individual and team performance features enabling an observer to learn many aspects of a team's play.