[djKianoosh]

On a tangent.. I'd love to see a heat map of Messi's movement for Barcelona (and Argentina). Whenever I watch him he's all over the place. And to my eyes, he's most dangerous when picking the ball up either from the midfield line or on the touchline half way up the field. In both cases, when runs at pace with the ball he's diabolically good. Any data/visualization to track that would be fantastic to see, especially filtering only on those instances where he causes real damage to the opponent (e.g. a shot on goal for him or a teammate)...

[llimllib]

For any game from a major league, you can go to the soccernet game summary and click on GameCast to see a heat map for any player. Here's Messi in the Barcelona 3 - 1 Real Madrid from December: http://i.imgur.com/XEvpW.jpg

(From http://soccernet.espn.go.com/gamecast?id=323887&cc=5901 )