Passing Your Way to Success, Part II

In the first part of this two-part post, Passing Your Way to Success, we looked at how passing and pass completion percentage was the most critical factor in determining whether your team will be successful or not. This according to Daniel Finkelstein, writing for the London Times in a Fink Tank column from November 13, 2004. A few months later, in a sort of follow-up column entitled “What do stats tell us that a team must do better? Pass“, Fink Tank looked into which statistics best indicate what the final score will be in a game. In other words, what explains the variation in goals between two teams competing in a match.