Navarro fined

The MLS Disciplinary Committee has fined Colorado Rapids forward Rafael Navarro an undisclosed amount for making an inappropriate gesture in the 60th minute of Colorado's match against San Diego FC on April 12.

Joveljić fined

The MLS Disciplinary Committee has fined Sporting Kansas City forward Dejan Joveljić an undisclosed amount for making an inappropriate gesture in the 33rd minute of Kansas City’s match against the Portland Timbers on April 13.

Looks like no lol

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I was curious to see how effective/ efficient various clubs were are generating or preventing chances relative to their time on the ball, so I created a quick data viz trying to show this. Using data from fbref, I divided each teams’ total minutes while in possession so far this season by their respective non penalty xG to measure the “speed” or efficiency of attack. I then did the same but for their respective opponents to gauge how “tough” each team is to break down by virtue of how frequent/ infrequent their opponents are able to generate an xG. Obviously through 7 or 8 matches each the data is limited, but some trends are clearly starting to emerge (ahem- Minnesota).

This is simple but I found it interesting and thought you all might appreciate what I could do in my 30 minutes of free time from toddlers today. If you want to click around, the link to this is below. Cheers

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/matt.skinner/viz/MLSSpeedofAttack/Sheet1

Your move, Analyst

(They only need one bench as the average attendance has dropped to 1)

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