In football, the same action can mean something completely different depending on the opponent’s shape and your own structure. A pass, a carry, or a press only makes sense when you know how many players were actually in each line at that moment.
Until now, it was hard to consistently separate those contexts without manual tagging. With Formation Line Filters, you can finally build custom metrics that reflect the formation-line detail coaches and analysts talk about every day, and go straight from the numbers to the clips.
What’s new?
You can now:
- Filter by the number of players in a specific line
- Opponent defensive line has exactly 4 players
- Opponent attacking line has exactly 2 players
- Compare lines directly
- Own defensive line has at least 1 more player than opponent attacking line
- Own defensive line has the same number of players as opponent attacking line
Every result is linked straight back to video, so you can validate it, build playlists, export them via XML and communicate it quickly.
How to use it
- Analyze your rest defense
A common principle is: “When we attack, we want to keep +1 behind the ball.”
Now you can measure it objectively in different moments, and jump straight from the data into the clips where it breaks.
For examples: Do you have a +1 rest defense when the opponent starts a transition?
This lets you check whether the structure you want is actually there, how often it holds, and what happens at the exact moment the opponent can counter.
- Build-up analysis: back 4 vs back 5
Build-up patterns change depending on the opponent’s last line. Without formation-line context, those situations get mixed together.
With Formation Line Filters, you can split build-up analysis cleanly:
- Build up against back 4
- Build up against back 5
Now your insights and your video examples are tied to the tactical problem you’re solving.
- Pressing on opponent goal kicks: 2 vs 3 vs 4 in the first line
When building up against the opposition, a press with two in the first line creates a different picture than three or four.
We now let you isolate those moments, measure them consistently, and pull the clips immediately.
Formation Line Filters are now live in the builder, and the Library includes examples to get started.
If you want help adapting these filters to your own principles, reach out and we’ll setup these up for your games.
