Corner Threat Score: Measuring the threat a player generates from taking inswinging and outswinging corners

In football, there are many things to look at from a tactical or coaching perspective and a data perspective. One of the things I love looking at are set pieces, corners in particular. There are not many corner-specific metrics out there and the available ones, mostly focus on the result of the corner in terms of expected goals (xG). In this article, I will explain the new data metric that I have created: Corner Threat Score (CTS), which is divided into Corner Threat Score Inswingers (CTSI) and Corner Threat Score Outswingers (CTSO).

What is CTS?

The Corner Threat Score is a metric that I’ve created to measure the threat of the delivery by the player taking the corner. It measures the threat of the cross/pass, the zone it arrives in, the possibility of direct contact resulting in a goal and the swing of the corner being taken.

The metric is a score which measures the threat on a scale from 0 to 100, and the higher the number the more danger you create in relation to the other takers of corners in the specific database.

CTS is a combination of different data metrics and metrics that have to be created from event data to capture the threat that can be attributed to a delivery from a…