The NWSL defense spikes completely in the last 15 minutes of games but we can also we how defense is emphasized on specific sides of the field and how pressure and action vary greatly. When a friend looked at this data, his first comment was rather intriguing. What if this has something to do with players being left or right-footed? We do not have that data at the moment, but it would be interesting to compare how attack and defense changes based on the number of players with a specific foot preference. For now, I would like to give the opportunity for you, the fan/reader, to explore this data and the full story presented in Part I, II, and III. Please note: this interactive was designed for a class I took these last few months and had a requirement to use Tableau, which is not designed for this purpose. The layout may be way to big for your screen — please use desktop or laptop. If anything, you can adjust the zoom to 80–90% and it works well (at least on my computer!). While I thought I would wait for all data to be logged, I think it is more valuable to get input and ideas. If you would like to help log data, read this from WoSo Stats!

Go to interactive here!

My goal is to transition this to its own webpage and use D3.js for the interactive component so if there are any programmers out their interested, please send me an email! My skills are very much lacking in this area so I could use any help available!

Add your thoughts, observations, and questions below. Make sure to check out WoSo Stats on Twitter, how you can help, the stats database, definitions of these stats, and some visualizations courtesy of WoSo Stats. The visualization presented here are from an exploratory analysis done by my University of Washington group (data scientists and user engineers) and has gone through two rounds of user testing.