Understanding Machine Football's Attribute Scores

Within our model, we rank both teams and individual outfield players across three core areas of performance: defensive, build-up, and final-third play. These rankings are based on historical data spanning 1.1 billion on pitch events, enabling the comparison of 320,000+ players.

Machine Football Attributes

Team and player attributes are expressed as percentile rankings from 1-100, measuring how effectively individuals and squads performs across different areas of the pitch. All scores are calculated relative to every other team/player included in our model.

Player scores can be adjusted relative to:

• Other players in the same position/all positions

• Other players within the same league/the world

This allows for more accurate, like-for-like comparisons.

Within each attribute category, players are assessed across three to four underlying metrics, which combine to produce their overall score for that category.

Defensive attributes include:

• Tackling

• Defensive Headers

• Ball Recovery

Build-up play attributes include:

• Creativity

• Passing Accuracy

• Dribbling

• Crossing

Final-third play attributes include:

• Finishing (shots)

• Finishing (aerial)

• Attacking Positioning

For every player in our system, these attributes can then be viewed over time, allowing for precise tracking and analysis, updated on a game-by-game basis.