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 …

In this report, we organize and reflect on recent advances and challenges in the field of
sports data visualization. The exponentially‐growing body of visualization research based …

The present study aimed to validate and compare the football-specific measurement
accuracy of two optical tracking systems engineered by TRACAB. The “Gen4” system …

The problem of evaluating the performance of soccer players is attracting the interest of
many companies and the scientific community, thanks to the availability of massive data …

Analysts in professional team sport regularly perform analysis to gain strategic and tactical
insights into player and team behavior. Goals of team sport analysis regularly include …

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 …

Detecting counterpressing is an important task for any professional match-analyst in football
(soccer), but is being done exclusively manually by observing video footage. The purpose of …

Competitive sports data visualization is an increasingly important research direction in the
field of information visualization. It is also an important basis for studying human behavioral …

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 …

Abstract Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are used to evaluate the offensive success of a
soccer team (eg penalty box entries) or player (eg pass completion rate). However …