[PDF][PDF] VAEP: An objective approach to valuing on-the-ball actions in soccer

T Decroos, L Bransen, J Van Haaren, J Davis - IJCAI, 2020 - ijcai.org
Despite the fact that objectively assessing the impact of the individual actions performed by
soccer players during games is a crucial task, most traditional metrics have substantial …

Team-builder: Toward more effective lineup selection in soccer

A Cao, J Lan, X Xie, H Chen, X Zhang… - … on Visualization and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lineup selection is an essential and important task in soccer matches. To win a match,
coaches must consider various factors and select appropriate players for a planned …

Player chemistry: Striving for a perfectly balanced soccer team

L Bransen, J Van Haaren - arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.01712, 2020 - arxiv.org
Soccer scouts typically ignore the team balance and team chemistry when evaluating
potential signings for their teams. Instead, they focus on the individual qualities of the …

Presenting multiagent challenges in team sports analytics

D Radke, A Orchard - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.13660, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper draws correlations between several challenges and opportunities within the area
of team sports analytics and key research areas within multiagent systems (MAS). We …

Optimising game tactics for football

R Beal, G Chalkiadakis, TJ Norman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
In this paper we present a novel approach to optimise tactical and strategic decision making
in football (soccer). We model the game of football as a multi-stage game which is made up …

Inferring Player Location in Sports Matches: Multi-Agent Spatial Imputation from Limited Observations

G Everett, RJ Beal, T Matthews, J Early… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Understanding agent behaviour in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is an important problem in
domains such as autonomous driving, disaster response, and sports analytics. Existing MAS …

Cognitive analysis in sports: Supporting match analysis and scouting through artificial intelligence

J Pavitt, D Braines, R Tomsett - Applied AI letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In elite sports, there is an opportunity to take advantage of rich and detailed datasets
generated across multiple threads of the sporting business. Challenges currently exist due …

Learning from the pros: Extracting professional goalkeeper technique from broadcast footage

M Wear, R Beal, T Matthews, T Norman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
As an amateur goalkeeper playing grassroots soccer, who better to learn from than top
professional goalkeepers? In this paper, we harness computer vision and machine learning …

Optimising long-term outcomes using real-world fluent objectives: an application to football

R Beal, G Chalkiadakis, TJ Norman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we present a novel approach for optimising long-term tactical and strategic
decision-making in football (soccer) by encapsulating events in a league environment …

[PDF][PDF] Analysis of Video Assistant Referee (VAR) in football

AS do Vale - 2022 - run.unl.pt
Technology has long been part of sports and recently football has also started to modernize,
with the introduction of goal line technology and VAR, International Football Association …