Just came across this visualization tool today: The Guardian’s Create Your Own Chalkboard. It can be a bit messy, but it does allow you to better understand certain plays in a match.
In this case it shows the passes leading up to Asenal’s goal against Man. U. Song starts the play with a take-away, passes to Ramsey, who passes to van Persie, who returns it to Ramsey for the goal.
The tool also supports comparisons between games, and heat maps. But what would make the tool really useful to a coach is a way to identify patterns across groups of games. For example: where are we scoring our goals from on the road? Maybe that’s for version 2.
~alex



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