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Possessions & Opportunities (POSS)

Possessions

A Possession captures the live play time where a team is in possession of the ball. A possession ends when the ball changes to the other team or there is a whistle and/or stoppage in play, e.g. after a field goal, defensive rebound, foul or turnover.

Opportunities

An opportunity captures the time where a team is in possession of the ball up until they lose possession or make a field goal attempt. An opportunity will end when the Possession ends, a field goal is attempted or any other stoppage in play. e.g. an opportunity will end if there is an offensive rebound even though the same team retains possession of the ball.

Changelog

July 2024

Fixes to ensure more consistency around the start/end time of a possession. This usually results in more possessions being counted per match where there was previously an issue detecting the end/start of some new possessions.

  • The web app video player will continue to merge any clips which overlap with each other which will sometimes lead to multiple clips being merged into a single clip if enough lead/lag time has been added.
  • If opening a match from inside Hudl Sportscode, the timeline will contain a separate row representing possession and a separate row representing opportunities.