Young Yanks of the Week: 10/17-10/20 Update

See the original post here regarding methodology: https://onssoccer.blogspot.com/2020/10/young-yanks-of-week-methodology.html

The Team of the Week:





Updates/Changes:

- G+ Overall is now in the center of the radar
- G+ Percentiles for specific areas are now in bars instead of blocks
- Radar outlines smaller
- Key added on right side
- Ball added to indicate goal scored

Other notes:

- We have a lot of good defenders and not a lot of attackers. Rather than try to figure out how to show a 6-2-2, I pushed DeJuan Jones and Araujo further up
- Between the starting XI and the bench, this is every player that recorded a positive G+. Rough "week" for young Americans

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