I've been tweaking it for ages, test all your code. As I can calculate the position of the ball if I know the time variable, I transition the time from a variable 1-500 frames, calculate the soccor ball's position, once I have that position I calculate where the player will be if they run to that position, I then use vec_dist to compare the distance and once I find the spot which has the smallest distance from the player to ball then I store the time variable and compare it to the other players on the field.

It gives me bugs at times, and has certain issues I've had to work around, but it's working to some extent...hopefully I'll either find a solution or get this tweaked better.

Thanks heaps for your help. If anyone has a working formula for this code please let me know. It's the same as getting an ai enemy missile launcher to fire at the position the player is moving to.