Pass Network

What it measures

The map of pass connections and average positions.

The question it answers

What is the team's real shape, and who connects it?

In the Variation framework

A pass network plots average positions and the strength of connections between them, exposing a team's real in-possession shape versus its nominal formation. Its dispersion over a season is the basis for one of the Lab's multi-season trend KPIs — a more distributed network is harder to pre-scout.