QuincyAbeyie hey, it's worth stitching a few pieces of data together - not just the two axes we see here. So what this specifically shows is that once a team has the ball, how quickly do they move the ball upfield both in terms of the sprints and the passing directness.
what you will see in other data sets is we along with City, Brighton, and Pool are very high possession teams. So the first two teams and us are more considered when we do get the ball back. Pool goes for the jugular as soon as they get the ball. It's consistent with watching them. They break extremely quickly.
I think it's possible to incorporate more of that Pool attack speed because it catches teams in transition before their defenses set. and if the attack fails, you just recycle the ball. A good example of a team that did this really well was the Invincibles. Their attacks typically started from a much lower position in the field with a lot of speed, and if the attack failed, they circulated the ball very well to probe for an opening.
