Statsbomb's new player positional tracker might just be football's next big thing

Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney looks frustrated alongside team-mate Ashley Young during their Premier League loss to Swansea City at Old Trafford.

Three to four years ago, football statistics for fans was all about either figuring out how many goals a player had scored, or how many passes he has made. However, with the massive development in technology has now enabled fans to even keep track of the position of each of the 22 players on the pitch.

Doesn’t sound very gimmicky, does it? Take a look here:

This covers Manchester United’s 1-2 loss to Swansea on Saturday

Developed by Colin Trainor and Constantinos Chappas, the player positional tracker uses very detailed and minute Opta event data to visualise the positions that the players had covered throughout the duration of the game.