The widely-held notion is, typically, that these players can see what others can't, enabling them to then act on those esoteric opportunities. We call these people maestros or artists, in large part, due to their ability to create beauty out of what we might perceive as nothingness--but it's often not the technical, execution-level ability, itself, that manifests in these stunning passes. It's the amount of information they collect, and base their decisions off of, instead.