How do i use the EARLIER() in DAX?

Question

With the table below i want to look into each "possession id" with at least one "action" being a "pass" and see how many passes each "player" has received. the "sequence" += 1 for every action taken inside the same "possession id" meaning a player has received one pass when the "sequence" is one larger than the sequence where the action was a pass, within the same "possession id" How do i check with with at dax function?

possession_id   sequence    action  player
54              1           pass    pl
98              1           cross   p2
76              1           shot    p2
54              2           pass    p3
23              1           shot    p5
54              3           shot    p8
87              1           shot    p1
98              2           shot    p9

The function would return 0 passes received for all players except p3 and p8 who received 1 pass each

Answer 1

My idea is to create a calculated column to check for each row if there's a "pass" in the previous sequence of the same possession or not :

Pass Received = 
VAR CurrentPossessionID = 'MyTable'[possession_id]
VAR CurrentSequence = 'MyTable'[sequence]
VAR PreviousSequence = CurrentSequence - 1

RETURN
IF(
    CONTAINS(
        FILTER(
            'MyTable',
            'MyTable'[possession_id] = CurrentPossessionID &&
            'MyTable'[sequence] = PreviousSequence &&
            'MyTable'[action] = "pass"
        ),
        [action], "pass"
    ),
    1,
    0
)

Then sum all instances where a player receives a pass :

Total Passes Received = 
SUMX(
    VALUES('MyTable'[player]), 
    CALCULATE(SUM('MyTable'[Pass Received]))
)