That's another FSD in the books, and I even got it out on Friday for a change.

MLS playoffs are back. Enjoy the games!

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Kai Wagner got a bit of a boost by looking at all ball-winning actions, because he gets a high amount of successful tackles that win possession.

To be fair, ball-winning actions doesn't change teams by a lot on a per-game basis compared to recoveries alone, but I wanted to show it anyway.

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Whoops, that went out before I was ready. Let's pick this back up.

Jeppe Tverskov from San Diego is the breakaway leader in recoveries.

Recoveries are not the only ways players win balls, however. There are also interceptions and tackles won (w/ the ball): ball-winning actions.

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But which players are helping these teams create this differential? With my handy new player analysis, we can easily answer this question.

Here are the top 40 players in total recoveries for the season.

So we can see how the full season ended, here is a scatterplot of recoveries differential and goal differential.

As a bonus, here is the same but with expected goals differential (xGD). It's not surprising that it has a bit of a stronger effect with xGD.

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I’m a huge fan of his offball runs when the ball is behind midfield. He’s such a unique threat that just didn’t work in San Jose for various reasons.

Only impressive if you mentioned it coming down to keeper kicks.

Thanks, Robert. 😂

For the same reason I use Lifecycle instead of Life-cycle, Life Cycle, or LifeCycle. it's accepted and looks better to me. it's also the way I talk.

I do admittedly flipflop on Through ball and Throughball in my writing, though.

Let's chat about it. It's tough to communicate nuance in 280 characters.

One of them does 😂