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I was curious to see how the distribution of minutes played differed between teams and put together a visualization to make the data more easily compared. Some teams, for example Argentina, have a core set of players which get significantly more time on the field than the rest of the squad. Other teams, for example Colombia, appears to use a larger part of their squad.

Each player is represented as a colored square. The color has been assigned based on minutes played: read means more minutes played and blue means less minutes played. Hover over each square to show additional information. The countries have been sorted from wider distribution to narrower distribution.
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Argentina
Brazil
Netherlands
Algeria
Colombia
Belgium
Germany
France
Spain
England
Greece
Italy
Uruguay
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Costa Rica
Cameroon
USA
Portugal
Ghana
Honduras
Switzerland
Australia
Russia
Japan
Nigeria
Chile
Croatia
Korea Republic
Côte d'Ivoire
Mexico
Ecuador
Iran