Possession value

52:41what they do is they calculate something called possession value. Okay? So possession value measures the impact of individual events, like individual passes and things like that that are going on on the pitch, on the probability of one team scoring within the next 10 seconds. And they have some like data way to train what that is. Like for example, we've got um the example that they use is Kevin De Bruyne. >> Uh >> Uh >> Oh, Kevin De Bruyne. Yeah, and the example they use is So for example, let's say Kevin De Bruyne is at the center. >> Yeah. >> And then he passes it into a dangerous area in the opposition. >> Yeah. >> Right? Like he passes it over so now

53:23it's closer to the goal. >> Yes. >> Now, the possession value of that move was something like .1 or .2 because he's increased the chance of getting to goal. >> Yeah, yeah. >> Now, in order to calculate momentum, what you're going to do is you're going to look at the maximum possession value for each team every single minute. This is kind of cool because what they're doing is they're comparing the two most