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\u201cA Gamebasics blog!\u201d is what I said to myself on a rainy afternoon in a beach club in Noordwijk. The end of the brainstorm afternoon was near. Thirty minutes left and Head of Marketing Dave tried to squeeze out the last bit of creativity. On a normal day, a blog wouldn\u2019t pass as a very creative idea. But the limited external communication was bothering me for some time now. Head of Texts Luuk en Head of Data Michiel were hyped as well and we put blogging back on the list. So let\u2019s do it. I\u2019ll just need a topic. Just one topic. A topic please..<\/span><\/p>\n

Five weeks later. A multidisciplinary team was formed to build an old hackathon (18 months ago) feature for OSM. Nice! And to top it off, a real football feature! A feature that I pitched together with Head of Texts Luuk. A couple of weeks with full focus on one feature has a big advantage: room for attention to the details of the feature. During the first planning, the idea to write a blog already surfaced. Happy days!<\/span>
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\n<\/span>So which football feature am I talking about? Messi = Barcelona = 10. Mbapp\u00e9 = PSG = 7. Salah = Liverpool = 11. Hazard = Chelsea = 10. However, if you line-up your players in OSM, the squad numbers are linked to their position on the pitch. And that\u2019s just not done, at least in the eyes of the purists. Let\u2019s give players a fixed squad number, just like in real life. \\o\/ \u00a0<\/span>
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\n<\/span>What if our managers (or clubs without managers) don\u2019t assign squad numbers to their players? Squad number-less players in official matches isn\u2019t allowed. In a friendly match maybe, but that\u2019s as far as we will go. So we thought we\u2019d create an algorithm that assigns squad numbers automatically. <\/span>
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\n<\/span>Next question, which player gets the number 7 shirt? Normally we would say that\u2019s reserved for the right midfielder or the right winger in the starting eleven. But OSM doesn\u2019t categorise players as playing on the right or left side of the pitch. <\/span>
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\n<\/span>The solution: Goalkeeper (1), defenders (2,3,5,6), midfielders (4,7,8,11), forwards (9,10). This dates back to football in the 20\u2019s when the formation 2-3-5 (yes, 5 forwards) was commonly used. During those days, squad numbers were officialized, based on that formation, left to right. The 2-3-5 formation evolved into the WM formation, 4-2-4 formation and finally the 4-4-2 formation. The squad numbers, however, stayed the same. <\/span>(<\/span>source<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

Conclusion: assigning number 6 to a defender and number 4 to a midfielder makes perfect sense.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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