Given the large pitch, numerous players, limited player turnovers, and sparse scoring,
soccer is arguably the most challenging to analyze of all the major team sports. In this work …

The increasing availability of data from sports events has led to many new directions of
research, and sports analytics can play a role in making better decisions both within a club …

The paper presents plus–minus ratings for use in association football (soccer). We first
describe the general plus–minus methodology as used in basketball and ice-hockey and …

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 …

In sports, studying player performances is a key issue since it provides a guideline for
strategic choices and helps teams in the complex procedure of buying and selling of players …

As the success of a team depends on the performance of individual players, the valuation of
player performance has become an important research topic. In this paper, we compare and …

The main goal of this article is to compare the performance of team ratings and individual
player ratings when trying to forecast match outcomes in association football. The well …

A major task of sports analytics is to rank players based on the impact of their actions.
Recent methods have applied reinforcement learning (RL) to assess the value of actions …

Association football (soccer) is the most popular sport in the world, resulting in a large
economic interest from investors, team managers, and betting agencies. For this reason, a …

Supporting the strategic decisions of a football team's management is becoming crucial. We
create some new composite indicators to measure the performance quality, applying both …