Add Field Tilt and PPDA (Passes Per Defensive Action) Endpoints
Field Tilt - A team's share of the two teams' combined final-third activity, measures which team controls the territorial advantage by calculating the share of passes or touches each side makes in the opponent's final third. This can be a visual after each game or an average of the field tilt for a team/manager.
PPDA (Passes Per Defensive Action) - Opponent passes allowed per defensive action. Lower is more intense pressing. Passes Per Defensive Action on Opta's rule: opponent passes attempted divided by fouls, tackles, interceptions, challenges and blocked passes, both counted outside the pressing team's own defensive third. Clearances and shot blocks are excluded as reactions to pressure rather than applications of it.
Both Field Tilt and PPDA are great indicators of how a team plays. Currently, possession is the only true indicator of how much a team possesses the ball but doesn't tell the full story of what the team does with the possession, field tilt can show if a team actually dominates their opponents. PPDA is a great indicator of how much a team presses or if they sit back after losing the ball.
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Bzzoiro · Admin
Sep 05, 2026 04:33
Both metrics compute from data we already return, so you can have them today.
GET /api/v2/events/{id}/stats/ returns a per-team block (home and away, plus first_half and second_half splits) that carries the inputs for both:
Passes, accurate_passes, pass_accuracy_pct, tackles, tackles_won, total_tackles, interceptions, fouls, duels, ground_duels, aerial_duels, clearances, ball_possession, final_third_entries, final_third_phase, fouled_in_final_third and touches_in_penalty_area.
PPDA is opponent passes divided by your defensive actions in the chosen zone - tackles plus interceptions plus fouls, using the numbers above.
Field tilt is your share of the two teams combined final-third activity, which you can build from final_third_entries and final_third_phase, or from touches_in_penalty_area if you want the sharper, box-only version.
We are keeping these as your calculation rather than ours: both have several accepted definitions, and publishing one number would hide which one we picked.
Bzzoiro
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