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Hello guys,

I've shared a new article about Expected Retention: a perspective to analyze how players behave under pressure.

To read: xR: Expected Retention as a Foundational Metric for Possession Survival in Football To share: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jmgdm_just-published-a-new-piece-on-socchub-exploring-share-7449195513851265024-76FE?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACkZbI8BFdNmBvrYGtys5s8SdtzPsBx13sE Let me know what you think! 😀

Afternoon my friends!

Earlier today I shared something on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jmgdm_ive-developed-an-interactive-scouting-activity-7430870569312686080-qhaq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACkZbI8BFdNmBvrYGtys5s8SdtzPsBx13sE But I felt that it could be a bit better. I decided to work on it again, and included a Timeline (where you can click on each event and visualize it on the pitch plot)

Also, I added a percentile compared to the players who play in the same position as the tracked one, as can be seen below.

What do you think of this? Would you add any other functionality?

Please let me know!

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