When they met at Cheney Stadium earlier this season, El Paso Locomotive FC and Tacoma Defiance were the juggernauts of passing in the USL Championship Western Conference. They were one and two in pass attempts per 90 and both near the top in passing accuracy. Since then the Defiance have dropped off the pace considerably while Locomotive have further asserted their dominance.
Locomotive’s passing stats are incredible — no Western Conference team is even close to them. They average 512 pass attempts/90, over 50 more than the second place team. If that pace holds they will attempt 1,700 more passes than any other team over the course of the season.