Figure 2
From: Defining a historic football team: Using Network Science to analyze Guardiola’s F.C. Barcelona
Comparison of 8 classical football metrics. In all plots, left bars are the average (during the whole season) of a given metric for FCB, while right bars correspond to the average of the rivals in the matches played against FCB. Metrics are, specifically: (A) number of passes, (B) number of shots, (C) number of goals, (D) number of points at the end of the season, (E) x-coordinate of the network centroid 〈X〉, (F) y-coordinate of the network centroid 〈Y〉, (G) the spatial dispersion (in field units) of the players around the network centroid and (H) the advance ratio 〈Δy〉/〈Δx〉, obtained as the ratio between the total length 〈Δy〉 of the y-coordinate of all passes divided by the total length 〈Δx〉 of the x-coordinate, both distances in field units. Direction x is towards the goal, while direction y is parallel to the opponents goal (see axis of Fig. 1). Parameters having statistically significant differences between FCB and their rivals are plotted in yellow.
