World Cup Big Data: Messi disk with King Demon 100% shooting rate

Argentina's new king Lionel Messi has been criticized for its lack of running distance, lazy play, and a far distance from the national team to the club. In http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/19351.html ">fifa the latest release of the World Cup's best player list, Benzema ranked first, Messi even ranked 13, not even before ten." But it would be a big mistake to think that Messi is dead. Recently, U.S. sports data analyst Benjamin Morris analyzed data from the 2010 World Cup to the World Cup 24,904 games, and studied all the data about Messi and 16,574 other football players, from goals, success rates, shooting areas, A statistical analysis of the passing and even defensive aspects, and the statistical conclusion that Messi is still the world's best football player.

What about Lionel Messi?

78% is a left-footed shot, scoring success rate of 23%;

Right foot shot success rate is also 23%;

The success rate of header is 10~13%;

8% of the goal is "nudge" (the average player is 6%) and the goal success rate is 27%,gaa 0.026 (the average player is 0.055)

5% of the shot was a "strong volley" (averaging 8% for all players), with a success rate of 36%,gaa 0.251 (average 0.051 for all players).

12% of the shots were rotated (averaging 10% for all players), scoring a success rate of 31% (averaging 8 for all players), GAA 0.202 (average player 0.020)

Penalty (PK) success rate is 86% (all players average 77%)

The success rate of direct Free-kick is 8% (average of 5 for all players) and GAA is 0.021.

Noun Explanation:

GAA (Goals adjective average): the difference between the average scoring rate of each shot and the mean

The success rate of shooting Ronaldo several blocks

He's the scariest "opportunist."

Messi has scored 291 goals and 201 assists in the official game since 2010 South Africa's World Cup. Compared with the other 16,574 players who entered the statistics, Messi scored an absolute lead, only Ronaldo can compete with it, which is in line with the world's Messi and Ronaldo hegemony in recent years. The success rate becomes the key to distinguishing the attacking ability of two people when the number of goals is difficult to score.

The chart shows 866 players who participated in more than 50 games and averaged more than one shot per game. It is seen that Messi scored the 9th highest success rate, compared with other players with a large number of goals, the goal is overwhelming efficiency. And, with a lot of goals and a higher scoring success rate than Lionel Messi, only Gomez (Germany) is alone.

The goal can be scored, with a number of factors, including shooting angle, shooting distance and other defense, Benjamin Morris through the GAA (goals adjective average, which means "the average score per foot scoring rate and average difference") to express the goal effect. The greater the number of GAA in the top 20 players in the game since 2010, the greater the number of "wasted shot opportunities". In this data, Messi's GAA, 0.038, shows that he has wasted a very small shot. Only Real Madrid star Bell and Lionel Messi misses, his GAA value of 0.037, Italian star Mario Balotelli and Dutch star Arjen Robben followed by 0.026 and 0.023. The figure of Ronaldo is only 0.015, which means that although the number of goals and Messi is not very much, but he has more opportunities to splurge than Mesido.

One-to-one success rate of 50%

He's the king of the belt.

In addition to the astonishing scoring ability, Messi's control ball is also a master, the World Cup, no matter which team in the face of Argentina, will send several players to encircle Lionel Messi, but even so, it is still difficult to break the ball from his feet. The one-to-one confrontation ability reflects a player's ability to synthesize, and Messi is still the number one player in the field.

Due to the attention of the other side, Messi averaged 8 or more one-on-one per game, the highest of all players and the only Uruguayan Suarez that could be close to 8 times, although Ronaldo was the focus of the defenders, but he averaged less than 5 times per match. The number of one-on-one is comparable, but with Luis Suarez's success rate of about 35% compared to the success rate of Lionel Messi as high as 50%, this data reveals the fact that Messicai is the king of the plate belt on active duty.

Long-range success rate 12.1%

He's an underrated long-range shot.

As an attacking player, scoring success rate is important, but the range of shooting also reflects its offensive ability. In this respect, Lionel Messi has shown his talent again. Of all the players in the stats, the success rate of shooting in the restricted area was 38.2%, the penalty area was 13.1%, and the success rate of shooting outside the closed area was 3.1%. But for Lionel Messi, his three figures are 47.8%, 21.9% and 12.1%, which are far higher than the average data, as well as top players, Ronaldo's three data, 46.2%, 18.5% and 4.1%, proved again that Messi scored more successfully than Ronaldo, scoring more than Ronaldo, both within and outside the box.

Because of his low stature and dexterity at the foot, Messi was always able to score in the opposing area through personal ability and coordination, and because of this, his long-range ability was neglected. In fact, the data show that Messi outside the box shooting success rate of up to 12.1%, and give people feel very strong shots, often have a free-kick scored Ronaldo, this data is only 4.1%. In the World Cup, Messi shot Iran outside the box, about 26.5 meters away from the goal.

Solo success rate 23%

His most "alone" = the most poisonous.

Messi is always labeled "too alone" when Barcelona or Argentina do not perform well. In fact, there are roughly two types of shots on the pitch, one to receive a ball from a teammate and one to dribble. From the statistical data, Messi personally scored 44% of the total number of shots, below the average of 46% of all players. Lionel Messi is not alone, but his goal-scoring success rate is 23%, well above the 5% average, which is the horror of Lionel Messi, according to the data.

It is because of the ability of the individual is too strong, always can break the goal of scoring, so Messi will give people leave "play too alone" impression. In fact, Lionel Messi is not alone, but it's really "poisoned" on the pitch. With no assists, Messi scored the world's first success rate, and it was Aguero and Tevez who were able to keep up with Lionel Messi on the data, no wonder Argentina always gave the impression of "being alone".

Increase team goal success rate by 9.6%

He's the most indispensable player.

How important the players are to the team, by comparing the performance of the team and the performance of the team during his absence. Of all the players, Lionel Messi is still the most indispensable. By statistics, in addition to the penalty and the positioning of the ball, Barcelona's 48% of the goal is Messi's shot or because of his teammates to pass assists caused by the shooting. Add the number of Messi goals and the number of goals for Messi assists that would be about 60% of all Barcelona's goals. Moreover, Messi scored 22.1% in Barcelona, with teammate Immesi assists with a success rate of 18.1% (the success rate was 12.5% without Messi assists). In the success rate of shooting and assists success, only the Swedish star, Ibrahimovic, who was able to match Lionel Messi, was able to increase the success rate by 6.7% and the assists success rate by 4%, but there was still a gap between 9.6% and 5.6% of Lionel Messi, which was 0.6% and 2%, respectively.

Defensive enthusiasm higher than Ronaldo

His "No defense" is a sham.

Messi's running distance has been a source of criticism, because he was nicknamed "The Walking Emperor" because of the low running distance, and the fans generally thought that not being involved in the defense was a direct cause of the lesser movement of Lionel Messi.

To fly shovel ball, steals the pass, destroys the goal and so on defense related behavior for the longitudinal axis, with the goal and so on offensive behavior for the horizontal axis to make the chart, can reflect the offensive player's defensive ability very well. In this statistic, Messi's ranking is not low. Despite being less than a runner, Messi is even more defensive than Ronaldo, the taller player.

The outside world always likes to compare Messi with the club, especially when the Argentine team is playing poorly. After the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Bassa Simesi's GAA was 0.262 and he was only 0.199 in the Argentine national team, with data showing he did not perform well at the club. But as the latest gold-ball winner, Ronaldo has only 0.175 GAA in the national team, and in statistics, Lionel Messi is still stronger than Ronaldo.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)