About Macro-Football

Analytics to understand individual player’s impacts on offense and defense:

  • Isolated Impact: estimates an individual player’s impact on their team’s offensive chance generation and the suppression of the opposition team’s chance creation, controlling for teammates, opposition players, managers, and match situation, relative to the league average player.

  • Shooting Impact: estimates a player’s impact on the probability that a given shot results in a goal.

Learn more about how to interpret isolated impact player cards here.

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Isolated Impact Charts by Club and Season:
  • Good - increases their team’s offensive chance creation, decreases the opposition team’s chance creation.
  • Bad - decreases their team’s offensive chance creation, increases the opposition team’s chance creation.
  • Boring - decreases both team’s offensive chance creation.
  • Exciting - increases both team’s offensive chance creation.

Club Isolated Impact Charts


Isolated Impact Player Cards:

  • Expected Points Above Replacement (xPAR)
  • Isolated Offensive and Defensive Impact
  • Shooting Impact
  • Shot Share, xG Share, and Usage

Player Cards