Sechzehn Kameras in jedem Stadion messen jeden Spieler fünfzig Mal pro Sekunde, sodass sich niemand vor den Messwerten verstecken kann. Ich habe sie den Post-Match-Berichten der FIFA entnommen und alle 759 Spieler nur anhand von zwei Zahlen grafisch dargestellt: der größten Bodenfläche, die sie in einem einzigen Spiel zurückgelegt haben, und ihrem schnellsten Sprint des Turniers.

    Schneiden Sie die Packung jeweils in der Mitte durch, so dass vier Ecken herausfallen, und sie schneiden gerade über die Positionen hinweg. Schnell auf einem kleinen Panzer, meist vorwärts. Nie schnell und nie abwesend, hauptsächlich Mittelfeldspieler. Läuft durch das Match und schlägt einmal zu. Und die seltene Ecke, schnell und unermüdlich zugleich, wo die Hälfte von ihnen Verteidiger sind, die Außenverteidiger, die neunzig Minuten damit verbringen, auf und ab zu laufen. Torhüter bekommen ihre eigene Insel, denn die 5 km eines Torwarts sind keine Schwäche, sondern ein anderes Tier.

    An der Spitze liegt Kylian Mbappé mit dem schnellsten Sprint des Turniers, 37,6 km/h. Noor Alrawabdeh aus Jordanien liegt mit 13,1 km in einem einzigen Spiel am rechten Rand.

    Mit der interaktiven Version können Sie nach jedem der 759 Spieler suchen, seine Karte sehen und zusehen, wie die 173, die auch in Katar 2022 gespielt haben, in vier Jahren über die Karte wandern: https://viz.luarai.com/worldcup-bestiary

    Von ArchiTechOfTheFuture

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    1. ArchiTechOfTheFuture on

      **Source:** FIFA’s official post match summary reports (one 52 page PDF per match). 100 matches from the 2026 World Cup, through the quarterfinals, plus all 64 matches from Qatar 2022. Both tournaments use the same optical tracking system: 16 cameras per stadium, 50 readings per player per second.

      **Tools:** Python (pdfplumber) to pull the tables out of the PDFs, D3.js for the chart, plain HTML and CSS for the rest.

    2. austin101123 on

      23.3mph while playing soccer is insanely fast

      I don’t watch soccer but figured skill mostly came down to footwork at the high level, but I guess not! There’s more athleticism to it besides just stamina than I thought

    3. LowControl2673 on

      Who is the fastest Wolf defender? And two Greyhound defenders right below Mbappe?

    4. I would prefer to color code the positions, as the current colors are redundant with the position

    5. Very well done. I think I’d be more interested seeing this data by player-match, though (one dot per player-match, filterable by stage and/or “most typical” per player)

    6. cpt_hatstand on

      I assume the keepers that covered the most distance are either Neuer getting bored and trying to play midfield, or Pickford just charging around going apoplectic with his defence

    7. Ragnarotico on

      Now this is awesome! Great categorizations, great visuals, great stats. I’m going to share this with a buddy for sure.

      Edit: one thing I’d note that seems to be off is that your „legendary“ are top 1% in a stat. That means in theory you would have only 7 or 8 legendary players as there are 759 players in the database. Why are there 17 legendary?

    8. I was trying to find Neymar, but I guess he didn’t move enough to make the cut.

    9. Multiple players had way more than 13.1 in a single match, no? Or is this only groupstage? Or after 90?

    10. casually__browsing on

      There are outfield players covering less ground and at less speed than goalies? Are sub appearances included here?

    11. ButteredBean on

      Mbappe, Haaland, Barcola, Jordan Bos, Elanga, Micky van de Ven are all insane. Not only reaching a top speed of 36km/h (22.4mph) but also being able to cover at least 9.6km (6miles) of ground in a match. World class athletes.

    12. Why would you use fastest sprint and biggest km instead of averages, quartiles or median per player though ? Hitting a 35km/h sprint once in the tournament is less indicative of a player’s impact and way of playing than having a 20km/h average across all the km done, or having a 30km/h upper quartile or decile of his runs.

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