For such a long period, the ability to measure the output of a player's influence for his side had been largely restricted to counting things like his or her's goals and assists.
However, as football has advanced over the course of the past few years, there has been a greater focus on analytical tools to help us measure the influence and abilities of players.
We now have metrics that capture a whole host of on-pitch actions. These are things from pass success rates, defensive duels won, Expected Goals (xG), average shooting distances, pressing numbers and so on.
One of the more interesting metrics produced in recent years though has been ‘progressive passes’. A progressive pass - as per Wyscout - is a pass that is 30m long when the pass
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