Figure 5
From: Defining a historic football team: Using Network Science to analyze Guardiola’s F.C. Barcelona
Temporal and spatial metrics change before scoring/receiving a goal: (A) time required to construct a 50-pass network tnet, (B) position of the X coordinate of the 50-pass network centroid, (C) 〈Δy〉/〈Δx〉 advance ratio and (D) dispersion of the distance of the players with regard to the centroid. Metrics are obtained for all teams and are shown in a two-dimensional plot, where the horizontal axis corresponds to the value of a metric when the team receives a goal and the vertical axis is the same metric obtained when the team scores a goal. Solid lines correspond to the function y = x, helping to identify wether a given parameter increases or decreases when a goal is scored/received. Each point represents the average along the whole season.
