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2011 Columbus Crew player combinations with Josh Gardner
This is an attempt to graphically represent the player combinations being used by the Columbus Crew. In this case, the player in question is Josh Gardner - who has become the first choice left back for the Crew since supplanting Rich Balchan several games ago.
This visualization uses data through the end of June, so it is a bit behind dated at the time of posting (I'm still trying to determine the best way to automate this).
The minutes played by Gardner are depicted in yellow - in this case, just over eight games' worth of time. The time played by every other player is depicted in each column, where the placement of the column indicates the amount of time that player has combined with Gardner. For a player like Sebastian Miranda, who has played nearly every minute of the season, the graph doesn't tell us much - but if you compare Robbie Rogers and Andres Mendoza, for example, it should be evident that Gardner had (as of this dataset) played significantly less time with Rogers than with Mendoza, despite those two players' seeing roughly equal amounts of time.
What does this mean? Combined with data like goalscoring frequencies, this could help shed light on whether a given player is the true cause for his apparent impact, or if there might be other factors at play.
As I refine my routines, I would also like to generate impact figures for player combinations - but that might be some time coming.
2011 Columbus Crew player combinations with Josh Gardner
This is an attempt to graphically represent the player combinations being used by the Columbus Crew. In this case, the player in question is Josh Gardner - who has become the first choice left back for the Crew since supplanting Rich Balchan several games ago.
This visualization uses data through the end of June, so it is a bit behind dated at the time of posting (I'm still trying to determine the best way to automate this).
The minutes played by Gardner are depicted in yellow - in this case, just over eight games' worth of time. The time played by every other player is depicted in each column, where the placement of the column indicates the amount of time that player has combined with Gardner. For a player like Sebastian Miranda, who has played nearly every minute of the season, the graph doesn't tell us much - but if you compare Robbie Rogers and Andres Mendoza, for example, it should be evident that Gardner had (as of this dataset) played significantly less time with Rogers than with Mendoza, despite those two players' seeing roughly equal amounts of time.
What does this mean? Combined with data like goalscoring frequencies, this could help shed light on whether a given player is the true cause for his apparent impact, or if there might be other factors at play.
As I refine my routines, I would also like to generate impact figures for player combinations - but that might be some time coming.