Potential Penetrative Pass (P3)
This work provides a domain-specific tool for analyzing football tactics, but it is incremental as it builds on existing concepts of pass evaluation in sports analytics.
The paper introduces the 'Potential Penetrative Pass (P3)' concept to objectively and automatically evaluate how football teams execute penetrative passes relative to their opportunities, addressing the need for quantitative assessment in team strategies.
To score goals in football, a team needs to move forward on the pitch and there are various ways to do so. Depending on the game plan & philosophy; some teams prefer to play long balls from either wings or defense. Others, prefer to penetrate in depth with passes and outplay the opponent players. To objectively & in an automated way evaluate how teams play penetrative passes compared to the number of times they had the potential to do so, the "Potential Penetrative Pass (P3)" concept is presented here.