The use of machine learning in sport outcome prediction: A review

T Horvat, J Job - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The increase in the volume of structured and unstructured data related to more than just
sport events leads to the development and increased use of techniques that extract …

A goal scoring probability model for shots based on synchronized positional and event data in football (soccer)

G Anzer, P Bauer - Frontiers in sports and active living, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Due to the low scoring nature of football (soccer), shots are often used as a proxy to evaluate
team and player performances. However, not all shots are created equally and their quality …

Characterising game styles in the English Premier League using the “moments of play” framework

S Gollan, K Ferrar, K Norton - International Journal of Performance …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of the current study was to identify different playing styles within 2015–16 English
Premier League season. Game-related variables were allocated to the “moments of play” …

Exploring the long short-term dependencies to infer shot influence in badminton matches

WY Wang, TF Chan, HK Yang, CC Wang… - … Conference on Data …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Identifying significant shots in a rally is important for evaluating players' performance in
badminton matches. While there are several studies that have quantified player performance …

The collection, analysis and exploitation of footballer attributes: A systematic review

E Wakelam, V Steuber… - Journal of Sports Analytics, 2022 - content.iospress.com
There is growing on-going research into how footballer attributes, collected prior to, during
and post-match, may address the demands of clubs, media pundits and gaming developers …

Prediction of football match results with Machine Learning

F Rodrigues, Â Pinto - Procedia Computer Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Football is one of the most popular sports in the world, so the perception of the game and the
prediction of results is of general interest to fans, coaches, media and gamblers. Although …

How is the stroke? inferring shot influence in badminton matches via long short-term dependencies

WY Wang, TF Chan, WC Peng, HK Yang… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Identifying significant shots in a rally is important for evaluating players' performance in
badminton matches. While there are several studies that have quantified player performance …

The origins of goals in the German Bundesliga

G Anzer, P Bauer, U Brefeld - Journal of Sports Sciences, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
We propose to analyse the origin of goals in professional football (soccer) in a purely data-
driven approach. Based on positional and event data of 3,457 goals from two seasons …

PlayBest: Professional Basketball Player Behavior Synthesis via Planning with Diffusion

X Chen, WY Wang, Z Hu, D Reynoso, K Jin… - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Dynamically planning in complex systems has been explored to improve decision-making in
various domains. Professional basketball serves as a compelling example of a dynamic …

ReLiable: Offline Reinforcement Learning for Tactical Strategies in Professional Basketball Games

X Chen, JY Jiang, K Jin, Y Zhou, M Liu… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Professional basketball provides an intriguing example of a dynamic spatio-temporal game
that incorporates both hidden strategy policies and situational decision making. During a …