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FBref: Progressive Carries back on FBref (and tweak to dribble/take-ons)

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Last October, when we converted over from StatsBomb to Stats Perform Opta data one of the stats that we had to stop carrying on the site was Progressive Carries. Thanks to help from Michael Caley of the Double Pivot Podcast, we are pleased to reintroduce Progressive Carries to the site. Given our expanded data coverage from Opta, we now have this stat for over 20 competitions (for both current and historical seasons) including most of the top women’s football leagues.

What is a progressive carry?

Carries that move the ball towards the opponent’s goal line at least 10 yards from its furthest point in the last six passes, or any carry into the penalty area. Excludes carries which end in the defending 50% of the pitch

As part of this project and at Michael Caley’s suggestion, we also tweaked our progressive passing definition to measure progression relative to the opponent’s goal line rather than toward the opponent’s goal. This is a subtle difference, but this increases the number of passes and carries counted as progressive.

Progressive Passes used to be

Completed passes that move the ball towards the opponent’s goal at least 10 yards from its furthest point in the last six passes, or any completed pass into the penalty area. Excludes passes from the defending 40% of the pitch

Now a Progressive Pass is:

Completed passes that move the ball towards the opponent’s goal line at least 10 yards from its furthest point in the last six passes, or any completed pass into the penalty area. Excludes passes from the defending 40% of the pitch

Overall this increases progressive passing totals by around 40%. There are a lot of balls played down the wings that we were excluding before.

From five days ago, here are some of the changes in the premier league.

+------------------------+-------------------------+----------+----------+
| name                   | club                    | old_PrgP | new_PrgP |
+------------------------+-------------------------+----------+----------+
| Rodri                  | Manchester City         |      101 |      155 |
| Kevin De Bruyne        | Manchester City         |      114 |      153 |
| Declan Rice            | West Ham United         |       80 |      147 |
| Ben White              | Arsenal                 |       81 |      133 |
| Pierre Højbjerg        | Tottenham Hotspur       |      103 |      132 |
| Bruno Fernandes        | Manchester United       |      100 |      130 |
| Youri Tielemans        |...

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