Ever since we founded American Soccer Analysis in 2013, I’ve hoped to construct a metric that credits players for actions all over the field, not just for goals and assists. I’ve always wanted something that could be used to ascribe values to players in a currency all soccer fans could understand. In the pre-ASA era, I got my fix analyzing baseball statistics, where analysts are spoiled by tons of publicly available data and a sport that, by rule, creates distinct plays largely independent of all other plays.