Jake Entwistle

🔴Introducing Tempo Control Profiles We often talk about tempo when talking about football. We talk about players who SET the tempo, players who CONTROL it or players who RAISE it. So I decided to quantify it, visualise the actions and develop a classification system using data. It divides the players into three main categories: 1. Tempo Catalyst - players who speed up the tempo 2. Tempo Conductor - players who maintain the tempo and have a right balance of slowing it down as well as increasing it 3. Tempo Settler - players who recycle more often, like to inject less The framework has two main aspects: Injections and Resets. In simple terms, I look at the time gap between actions, compare the action to the recent rhythm of the sequence, and then judge whether it speeds the move up or slows it down. From there, I add territorial context as well, so quicker actions that also move the ball into more dangerous zones carry more value than quick actions with little tactical impact. Here is Bruno's Tempo Control Profile. He falls under the Tempo Catalyst profile. Not surprising given how good he is at releasing quick incisive passes. Decent number of tempo increasing carries as well. You can request for similar maps, specific lists and even drop suggestions and methods of improvement. I will share more results and try to improve this over the coming days.