Free kick Threat Score: Measuring the threat a player generates from indirect free kicks

Marc Lamberts
12 min readFeb 5, 2024

For me, 2024 is going to be more about creating and applying existing data metrics across football. The first genre of metrics is the metrics that are useful for set pieces because I feel that’s where a lot of improvement can be made and also because I’m just a nerd for set pieces.

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Marc Lamberts

Academic | CAF A | Recruitment + data analysis consultant in football | Set pieces