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A football match contains ~1,600 on-ball actions. Traditional metrics (goals, assists, xG) evaluate fewer than 1% of them.

VAEP is the metric that values the other 99%. That's where hidden talent tends to surface. 🧵

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Scout Lab — a great source for both xPass and xDribble. You can look up any other player's overperformance at the link below:

🔗 https://t.co/cLFLquYYpD

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Pass completion rate doesn't care where you play, who you face, or how hard the pass was. An 80% number for a playmaker and a 90% number for a holding midfielder are not the same thing — but raw stats treat them as if they were.

xPass fixes this. 🧵

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Third: a CB whose passing skill the raw stat under-rates.

Bastoni's Forward Pass% sits around the average for T5 CBs, sometimes a touch below.

xPass Overperformance% says he's near the top of the position three seasons running (23/24, 24/25, 25/26). He's a wide creator, attempting chance-creating balls a typical CB wouldn't try, and completing them above the baseline for those exact conditions.

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@academicismo Thanks. Whatever the environment, as long as the will is there, new ideas will always emerge. Let's keep learning together.

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@xenostat Highlighting is one-player-at-a-time on the site, so it gets time-consuming — faster if you check it there directly.
https://t.co/cLFLquYYpD

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Share of Team Progression vs Recoveries | T5 U-25 MF

In short: the X-axis is responsibility in IP, the Y-axis responsibility in OOP. In 22/23, his final season at West Ham, Rice sat in the very top-right of this plot.

And in 25/26, Elliot Anderson occupies that same spot.

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@phalmer The site only lets you highlight players one at a time, so doing it for multiple players is a hassle. I decided it was only worth that effort for the latest plot.

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@Wanalyst007 Exactly that

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Just signed long-term to 2030 in January.

If clubs miss out on Anderson this summer, Garner has the profile to be a realistic next option.

Stylistically, Moisés Caicedo is one event-data reference point — duels, recoveries, ball-security. To climb toward that tier Garner needs more progression volume and tighter ball-security in build-up.

Through the back injuries that stalled his career, one breakout season has carried him all the way to England. Wherever the ceiling is, he hasn't hit it yet.

📷: https://t.co/CpPgbAvhDl

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James Garner continues to impress for Everton this season, ranking 3rd among all players in our Overall Grade model (84.0)

#EFC 🔵

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 James Garner — Data Report

Elite OOP base. Set-piece danger. Secure on the ball.

And when Everton need it, he plays full-back — left or right. James Garner's 25/26 has been a real breakout. 🧵

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Comparing Garner with Anderson on Gradient grades.

Anderson clearly ahead on:
Passing (Anderson's progression volume is in another tier)
Ball Carrying (Garner 60.5 — 84th/124 MID)
Aerial Duel

Garner level or clearly ahead on:
Fifty Fifty Duel 87.6 (2nd) vs Anderson 72.5
Crossing 87.6 (2nd) vs Anderson 63.6
Tackling 79.1 (9th), Positioning 78.9 (3rd), Tackle Resistance 80.3 (16th) — all level or better