Team-based invasion sports such as football, basketball, and hockey are similar in the
sense that the players are able to move freely around the playing area and that player and …

In professional soccer, increasing amounts of data are collected that harness great potential
when it comes to analysing tactical behaviour. Unlocking this potential is difficult as big data …

The present paper investigates factors contributing to the home advantage, by using the
exceptional opportunity to study professional football matches played in the absence of …

Sports data analysis is becoming increasingly large scale, diversified, and shared, but
difficulty persists in rapidly accessing the most crucial information. Previous surveys have …

We study the problem of imitation learning from demonstrations of multiple coordinating
agents. One key challenge in this setting is that learning a good model of coordination can …

It is common practice amongst coaches and analysts to search for key performance
indicators related to attacking play in football. Match analysis in professional football has …

In this paper, we present a method which accurately estimates the likelihood of chances in
soccer using strategic features from an entire season of player and ball tracking data taken …

Although the collection of player and ball tracking data is fast becoming the norm in
professional sports, large-scale mining of such spatiotemporal data has yet to surface. In this …

Regarded as a high-level tactic in soccer, a team formation assigns players different tasks
and indicates their active regions on the pitch, thereby influencing the team performance …

Modern movement tracking technologies enable acquisition of high quality data about
movements of the players and the ball in the course of a football match. However, there is a …