Figure 3
From: Defining a historic football team: Using Network Science to analyze Guardiola’s F.C. Barcelona
Comparison of 6 network parameters. In all plots, left bars are the average (during the whole season) of a given parameter for FCB, while right bars correspond to the average of the rivals in the matches played against FCB. Parameters are, specifically: (A) clustering coefficient C, (B) shortest-path length d, (C) largest eigenvalue λ1 of the connectivity matrix A, (D) algebraic connectivity \({\tilde{\lambda }}_{2}\) of the Laplacian matrix \(\tilde{L}\), (E) dispersion of the players’ centrality and (F) maximum player centrality. See Methods section for details about the explanation (and calculation) of all network parameters. Parameters having statistically significant differences between FCB and their rivals are plotted in yellow.
