Seq2event: Learning the language of soccer using transformer-based match event prediction

I Simpson, RJ Beal, D Locke, TJ Norman - Proceedings of the 28th ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Soccer is a sport characterised by open and dynamic play, with player actions and roles
aligned according to team strategies simultaneously and at multiple temporal scales with …

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 …

The Strain of Success: A Predictive Model for Injury Risk Mitigation and Team Success in Soccer

G Everett, R Beal, T Matthews, TJ Norman… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we present a novel sequential team selection model in soccer. Specifically, we
model the stochastic process of player injury and unavailability using player-specific …

Computing an optimal pitching strategy in a baseball at-bat

C Douglas, E Witt, M Bendy, Y Vorobeychik - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The field of quantitative analytics has transformed the world of sports over the last decade.
To date, these analytic approaches are statistical at their core, characterizing what is and …

Artificial intelligence in team sports

RJ Beal - 2022 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
The Sports Analytics Market is growing rapidly, in 2020 it was valued at over $1 billion and is
expected to reach over $5 billion by 2026. However, even with this level of growth the use of …

Two-stage reward allocation with decay for multi-agent coordinated behavior for sequential cooperative task by using deep reinforcement learning

Y Miyashita, T Sugawara - Autonomous Intelligent Systems, 2022 - Springer
We propose a two-stage reward allocation method with decay using an extension of replay
memory to adapt this rewarding method for deep reinforcement learning (DRL), to generate …