A project attempting to quantitatively measure the centrality and closeness of a shot with respect to the central point of the goal-line using Understat's shot event data.
Here is an explainer with a graph showing the shot centrality and closeness to goal of Premier League players with more than 30 shots attempted in the 2020/21 season.
Along with that, here is a bar graph showing the best striker's in the Premier League according to the above concept, in the given time period.
This project was inspired by Rahul Iyer's (@exceedingxpuns) work on pass verticality, which can be found here.