Sports analytics

Quantifying the value of sprints in elite football using spatial cohesive networks

Football players are on the move during games and the sprint is one of the distinctive type of those movements. In this study, we focus on quantifying the value of the sprints using the spatial data of players and the collective movements of the …

How do soccer teams coordinate consecutive passes? A visual analytics system for analysing the complexity of passing sequences using soccer flow motifs

In this paper, we describe a visual analytics system to analyze the sequence and trajectory of consecutive passing sequences.

Predicting soccer events from optical tracking data

In this study, an automated method for predicting soccer events such as corner kick, free kick, goals and penalties has been developed using optical tracking data with random forest classifier. The study was conducted on a dataset of 140 matches from …