I almost got you across the line
For sure, it would be a different perspective and serious SC players are total data whores, they'd eat it up. They already pay for SC Gold and the SC Bible. You could potentially have a focus game each round, say, where you pick a match that has big SC implications. That'd be a great headline for the report you're creating
Here you go.
Test run was 2016 GF
Basically it's a single re-watch at normal speed. Lose some time for intricate subs, but gain some by skipping the replays and dead space.
Doing it this way would boil it down to 3 pieces of information:
1) Running Metres vs Attacking Ball in Play
This tells you where a player sits for metre-eating against his peers.
If we mapped this against a single player's season, it would show us how he is sitting against his own average.
2) Tackles vs Defensive Ball in Play
Same as above, but for defence.
3) Simplified model for Attack vs Defence.
- Attack value here is how many metres this player would have run if they played at the same rate for 80 minutes with 50% possession
- Defensive value here is how many tackles this player would have made if they played at the same rate for 80 minutes with 50% possession
Bigger bubble = more minutes played.
In a SC context something like this tells me that while his stats this game may not reflect it because of high possession against, Jesse Bromwich would be the
the most likely of all of these players to have a high output in both attack and defence most weeks - because the rate at which he does things is higher than most players
and he plays a lot of minutes.
It also tells me that Bukuya, Hieghno and Kenny Bromwich are defensive workhorses, and that both Welch and Taga were high involvement but low-minute players (Taga in particular did very little defence but had heavy attacking involevment).
It also says that Jordan McLean might be ready to push for more minutes (which 20-20 hindsight tells us was indeed the case).