We are back for Year 2. Of what? Of identifying the best -- and worst -- players in the Premier League at a broad array of some general and some specific skills. Who is the fastest runner? Who is the fastest older guy? Who is the worst passer under pressure? Who wins 50-50 duels most often? Can we agree on the best athlete? The worst athlete? The most reliable goalkeeper? The most one-footed player? Which defender never makes mistakes? Who is the worst final-third decision-maker?

Using the unique, fine-grain dataset provided by Gradient Sports, we can answer all of those questions, and I'm going to answer all of them down below -- except for the last one. That one, I'm going to answer up here.

Which attacker has taken the most shots, per Gradient's analysis, when there was a better passing option available? That would be Liverpool's Dominik Szoboszlai, with 26.

But among players with at least 10 bad shooting decisions, who is using up the highest percentage of their attempts on shots where someone else was open? That would be Manchester City's Nico González: 83.3% of his shots were attempted when there was a better option for a pass. Compare that to his teammate, someone he could be passing the ball to, Erling Haaland. The Norwegian leads the league in shots with 91 -- no one else has even reached 65 -- and yet only eight of those have come when someone else was in a better position.

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Fastest player: Jackson Tchatchoua, Wolverhampton Wanderers

The worst team in the league also employs the fastest player in the league. Tchatchoua's max speed, which Gradient defines as the average of each player's five highest speeds sustained for a full second, is 35.78 kilometers per second. That's nearly 0.4 km/s more than Chelsea's Pedro Neto in second. The gap between Tchatchoua and Neto is bigger than the gap between Neto and sixth-placed Haaland.

Slowest player: Tom Cairney, Fulham

This should not be viewed so much as a criticism of Cairney's average speed -- a mere 28.35 km/s. He's a possession midfielder who was never fast to begin with and is now 35. Rather, this is a chance to highlight the revival of Casemiro, who was the slowest player in the league last season but has raised his pace up to 29.85 km/s. Now Casemiro is just one of the slower players in the league.

Fastest 'old' guy: Kyle Walker, Burnley

So far this season, 21 players have recorded a max speed of at least 34 km/s. Nineteen of them are 25 or younger, 20 of them are 28 or younger, and one of them is Walker, who is 35 years old and has a max speed higher than all but six other players in the league.

Slowest young guy: Myles Lewis-Skelly, Arsenal

It's been a disappointing season for Lewis-Skelly who, at this time last year, seemed like he was on the fast track to starting for England at the World Cup. While he's technically brilliant, his lack of athleticism has kept him off the field this season, and it's going to be the biggest hurdle for him to overcome if he is to fulfill the potential it looked like he had a year ago. The 19-year-old's max speed of 28.65 km/s is the third slowest in the league this season among outfielders, and the slowest among players under 28 years old.

Best passer: Bruno Fernandes, Manchester United

Gradient has a team of analysts that grade a number of different actions undertaken by every player in the Premier League every weekend. Every pass, shot, etc. is awarded a score between minus-2 and plus-2 (in increments of 0.5), and those numbers are normalized across the league on a scale of 0 to 100. Fernandes has been the best passer in the league this season, with a mark of 98.6, and I think he has a decent case as the best player in the league right now. Remember when everyone was wondering if Manchester United should let him go last summer?

Worst passer: Dan Burn, Newcastle United

Burn has a perfect name, is a gigantic human being and has somehow turned himself into a Champions League-level defender after turning 30. Burn has many positive characteristics, but "the ability to pass a soccer ball" is not one of them. He has earned a 46.9 passing grade so far this season. He's completing about 77% of his passes this year -- a number you'd expect from a center forward, not center back.

Best passer under pressure: Rayan Cherki, Manchester City

While Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola clearly still doesn't trust him -- or rather, doesn't want to trust him -- Cherki is so good once the ball gets to his feet. He's one of five players with a 90 grade or better at passing under pressure, along with Moisés Caicedo, Adam Wharton, Jérémy Doku, and Leandro Trossard.

Worst passer under pressure: Dan Burn, Newcastle United

Sorry, Dan -- I don't make the grades! Though in the overall passing grade a couple of goalkeepers graded worse than Burn, he's the lowest graded player at any position for under-pressure passing. One o worst among 92 qualifying center backs. A potential weakness to exploit for anyone who plays the best team in the world over the next couple other potentially interesting note from the bad-under-pressure passers category is that Arsenal's Gabriel Magalhães grades out at a 52.7, third worst among 92 qualifying center backs. A potential weakness to exploit for anyone who plays the best team in the world over the next couple of months?