AequusIndex Impact Lab
Most public football ratings ask a narrow question: who shot, who assisted, who ended up near the goal? That is useful, but it misses the long middle of a possession where players tilt the pitch before anyone gets credit. This lab is my first attempt at showing that middle layer in public.
View statsShots are the cleanest events to value, but football is not basketball. Most possessions never become shots. If a full-back pins a winger back, if a midfielder keeps receiving under pressure, if a centre-back keeps breaking the first line, the old box score barely notices.
Territory Value is deliberately simple. It asks: did the action move the team forward, did it enter the final third, did it reach the box-zone, and was the player involved often enough to matter over real minutes?
This is still a lab. The next version needs possession direction correction, event-type weighting, possession chains and pressure context. For now, the value is in making the assumptions visible instead of hiding them behind a fake final rating.
Territory Value per 90 currently combines four ingredients. The weights are intentionally readable so we can argue with them later.
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Each marker is a top player’s average action start location. Larger markers mean more box-zone entries per 90.
Use this like a notebook: score first, then check the ingredients before trusting the name.
| Rank | Player | Team | Position | Minutes | Territory Value | Territory Gain | Final-third entries | Box-zone entries | Success |
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