Fig 1. Diagram of 3-vs-1 variables.

(a) The inner angles of the three attackers’ triangle. (b) The pass angles (thin arc) are defined as the angles between the vector from the passer to the potential receivers and the vector from the passer and the defender. We analyzed pass angles at the passer’s ball release. The angular displacement (thick arc) is defined as the difference in the above angle from the previous pass to the current pass (both ball releases). The additional distance is defined in the same time interval by subtracting the shortest distance (to obtain the same angular displacement; black thick line in Fig 1B) from the actual moving distance (gray curve in Fig 1B).