Stoppage time matters: how substitutions and using all minutes played affect player statistics - Closeread Prize

Stoppage time matters: how substitutions and using all minutes played affect player statistics

Authors: Eliot McKinley


Read the closeread article: https://asa-scrollytelling.github.io/
Reproducible repo: GitHub - asa-scrollytelling/asa-scrollytelling.github.io


Abstract

You might think that determining how much playing time a soccer player receives would be rather straightforward, but it is not.

In soccer statistics there are two camps regarding how to determine how much time a player has spent playing. The first camp ignores stoppage time and caps each half at 45 mins for a total of 90 minutes played. The second camp instead decides that stoppage time is still part of the game and expands the minutes played to include that, too.

This scrollytelling-based article delves deeply into the effects of choosing a capped or expanded normalization methods on how soccer player statistics are interpreted that can have profound effects on recruitment.

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