This is interesting, thanks. Looking at Wilson, his output looks great as headline numbers (still small sample size though), but his input stats are good but on the low side compared to the top level young talents in the league. Does this suggest he may regress towards the mean if given more games? Do you have similar stats available for established Championship players with similar G+A p90s to Wilson please?
It just so happens most of the top young players in the Championship are creative players. If you saw in the tactics thread the post i made on forwards, you notice something else.
Forwards
Player Name G+A/90 SoT+Drib+KP/90
Mohamed Salah 1,36 7,8
Daniel Sturridge* 0,53 7,42
Sadio Mané 0,77 6,28
Dominic Solanke* 0,19 6,23
Roberto Firmino 0,8 5,32
Danny Ings* 0 4,23
Wilson (Hull) 0,99 5,09
Ojo (Fulham) 0,39 4,95
Kent (Bristol City) 0,33 4,28
Kent (Freiburg)* 0 4,06
Origi (Wolfsburg) 0,37 3,48
To give some context, here are their counterparts at the other top 6 clubs.
Player Name G+A/90 SoT+Drib+KP/90
Eden Hazard 0,63 11,1
Willian 0,66 7,79
Alexis Sánchez 0,59 7,53
Sergio Agüero 1,23 7,5
Raheem Sterling 1 6,48
Harry Kane 0,92 6,48
Leroy Sané 0,92 6,24
Pedro 0,4 6,1
Son Heung-Min 0,71 6,09
Álvaro Morata 0,81 5,53
Anthony Martial 0,92 5,43
Marcus Rashford 0,67 5,35
Alex Iwobi 0,44 5,2
Christian Eriksen 0,62 4,8
Alexandre Lacazette 0,64 4,59
Henrikh Mkhitaryan 0,72 4,37
Romelu Lukaku 0,71 4,03
Juan Mata 0,36 4,01
P-E. Aubameyang 1,03 3,98
These numbers indicate his output (goals and assists) and input (dribbles, shots, key passes) in terms of attacking play. Players who score highly will tend to be particularly useful against a low block. Players who tend to score high in output, low in input (e.g. Aubameyang) could either have a very high success rate, which may or may not be sustainable long term, and likely to be players rarely involved in build up just putting the final touch on attacks. Players with low output, high input will tend to be penetration players (e.g. Wilshire, Dembele, Fabregas) who are linking the defensive players to the attacking players trying to break through the lines.
Players with very high output and lower input (e.g. Auba) are killers, basically. Wanting to stay in areas where goals are scored and created rather than drop deeper to be part of the process of opening up the opponent with penetrative dribbling or passes. Alternatively, they could just be players who have had a high success rate with very little input and will tail off. This is where scouting comes into it really - looking at the player rather than the data to get a better idea for young players.
At the opposite end, very low output and high input (e.g. Fabregas) are penetrators. Highly involved in the process of linking the attack but less involved in the process of finishing off moves. Alternatively, they could be players who are on the very of having big output but just haven't found it yet at that level - which is what I believe to be true of Solanke. Harry Kane had good underlying numbers before he broke out at Spurs for example.
Then there will be the level of penetrators one step removed again, like Dembele, Weigl etc. Players who function to connect the defence to the creative players and attacks but stay outside the opposition shape and thus rarely will register in terms of end product. For them, looking at those numbers above can almost be entirely useless.
