Chart: Crew Passing Summary

No question that this year the Columbus Crew have topped the league in passing accuracy and ball possession (which go hand-in-hand because possession is tracked by number of passes and not actual clock time).

If you hover of each circle it should give you individual player minutes (also the size of the circle), % pass accuracy and average passes per game. The black dots are league averages. You'll notice that the Crew have players above most league averages save a few midfielders (Speas, Meram and Finlay slightly below).

Passing: Per Game and Accuracy | Create Infographics

Some other callouts; Crew forwards are mostly around league averages here (just that goal getting thing we need to look at). Ultimately, this just shows that most of the Crew players are performing At or Above league averages, with only a few exceptions.

Berhalter has been impressively successful in this category, which is why I'm looking at it here. There is certainly much more to look at when evaluating a individual player but I think most of it starts here for this Crew regime.

Final callout is Wil Trapp. He's the one on the upper right.

Crew Player Passing %, Trapp Tops

Don't want to spend too much time on this one stat, but do feel this one is notable. Since the beginning of last year Wil Trapp is the most accurate with his passes on the Crew (this is Opta data).

Trapp just turned 21 last month has captained the Crew once this offseason under Berhalter. In the first match of the 2014 MLS season the Crew made a point to mention that he was Vice-Captain behind US International Michael Parkhurst. Players in gray are no longer with the Columbus Crew.

 Pass%, Name, Sum of Pass
84.3% Wil Trapp 887
83.4% Danny O'Rourke 732
81.3% Chad Marshall 820
80.5% Bernardo Anor 725
80.4% Federico Higuaín 1531
79.3% Jairo Arrieta 543
79.2% Chad Barson 532
78.9% Matías Sánchez 470
78.5% Eddie Gaven 359
78.1% Kevan George 161
76.4% Josh Williams 931
76.4% Tony Tchani 842
74.3% Gláuber 427
73.6% Agustin Viana 720
73.3% Tyson Wahl 821
73.0% Ben Speas 316
72.9% Dominic Oduro 842
71.8% Konrad Warzycha 120
68.7% Eric Gehrig 166
68.6% Justin Meram 343
66.9% Ethan Finlay 139
64.4% Aaron Schoenfeld 107
48.3% Matt Lampson 213
44.1% Andy Gruenebaum 387

Players with less than 100 passes...

100.0% Adam Bedell 1
92.0% Michael Parkhurst 51
86.0% Héctor Jiménez 29
83.0% Giancarlo Gonzalez 42
76.0% Waylon Francis 41
73.5% Ryan Finley 79
65.0% Steve Clark 20

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August Passing Accuracy, Crew

Below are passing accuracy numbers for the month of August.

The Crew have 3 Wins, 2 Draws, 1 Loss in August.

% : NAME : TOTAL PASSES

89.3% : Chad Marshall : 122
81.4% : Carlos Mendes : 97
81.2% : Josh Williams : 250
81.2% : Danny O'Rourke : 85
78.6% : Julius James : 14
78.1% : Milovan Mirosevic : 215
78.1% : Federico Higuain : 137
75.9% : Tony Tchani : 29
75.8% : Eddie Gaven : 207
75.0% : Ethan Finlay : 8
72.6% : Jairo Arrieta : 157
72.1% : Dilly Duka : 111
71.6% : Sebastian Miranda : 232
70.2% : Cole Grossman : 84
68.4% : Chris Birchall : 193
64.9% : Justin Meram : 57
61.4% : Emilio Rentería : 57
48.1% : Matt Lampson : 52
47.3% : Andy Gruenebaum : 148

Again, just one metric and just a passing / distribution / possession stat. Interesting though.