Average passes between players
Tarr asked for data showing how many passes one person throws to another on average while they are on the field. Turns out not so many. Here is sample from the Final game Team USA against Australia. The numbers in the cells are calculated dividing the total number of passes between players (directional) with a number describing how many points the players were on the field at the same time and during which points USA had possession. So if the players were on the field during a defence-only point, those points were discarded from the calculations.
As these numbers are based on only one game (I have not yet had time to do this kind of summary of all the games) these numbers shoould be treated with caution….
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#12_Fontenette |
#2_Ziperstein |
#24_Watson |
#25_Roth |
#26_Namkung |
#27_Cussen |
#3_Deaver |
#4_Eastham |
#6_Halmos |
#7_Sparling-Beckley |
#9_Witt |
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#12_Fontenette |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.11 |
0.00 |
0.11 |
0.00 |
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#2_Ziperstein |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.29 |
0.17 |
0.33 |
0.30 |
0.33 |
0.09 |
0.17 |
0.11 |
0.13 |
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#24_Watson |
0.11 |
0.71 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.50 |
0.10 |
0.63 |
0.29 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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#25_Roth |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.50 |
0.00 |
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#26_Namkung |
0.00 |
0.17 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.57 |
0.33 |
0.00 |
0.40 |
0.25 |
0.17 |
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#27_Cussen |
0.10 |
0.20 |
0.50 |
0.00 |
0.43 |
0.00 |
0.75 |
0.00 |
0.14 |
0.09 |
0.00 |
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#3_Deaver |
0.14 |
0.17 |
0.63 |
0.50 |
0.00 |
1.50 |
0.00 |
0.60 |
0.00 |
0.20 |
0.20 |
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#4_Eastham |
0.11 |
0.18 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.80 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.20 |
0.14 |
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#6_Halmos |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.20 |
0.14 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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#7_Sparling-Beckley |
0.00 |
0.56 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.13 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.13 |
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#9_Witt |
0.00 |
0.13 |
0.00 |
0.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.20 |
0.14 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
September 4th, 2005 at 1:57 am
Nice work. I’m a bit confused on directionality - did zip throw .29 passes to Bart per point, or .71? I think it’s .29 but I’m not sure.
Although I know it would make things still more difficult to do, it would probably be meaningful to count points with more than one posession as two posessions, not one. Of course, there were not many points like that in this game.
September 4th, 2005 at 9:45 am
You are correct with the directionality. Throwers are rows and receivers are the columns. (That’s the way I have organized all of the matrices - I will post them here soon)
I sort of expected someone to point this out point-possession issue. After thinking it one day, I think possessions make more sense. Correcting that is not a big deal. I have to just duplicate those lineups in the raw data.
September 6th, 2005 at 2:10 pm
Not going to go through the hassle of publishing here the average passes per possession in the final game as there was only one point during which USA had more than one possession. I will sort the summary data for all of the games though, but that will take some time.