Machine learning in men's professional football: Current applications and future directions for improving attacking play

M Herold, F Goes, S Nopp, P Bauer… - … Journal of Sports …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Techniques and applications for soccer video analysis: A survey

C Cuevas, D Quilón, N García - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2020 - Springer
Nowadays, soccer is the most popular sport in our society, followed by millions of people.
Consequently, many video analysis applications have been developed in the last years to …

Artificial intelligence for team sports: a survey

R Beal, TJ Norman, SD Ramchurn - The Knowledge Engineering …, 2019 - cambridge.org
The sports domain presents a number of significant computational challenges for artificial
intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). In this paper, we explore the techniques that …

Big data and human resource management: paving the way toward sustainability

G Gravili, R Hassan, A Avram… - European Journal of …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to examine the influence of big data (BD) on human resource
management (HRM). It defines how these data can be a useful tool in the decision-making …

Attacking key performance indicators in soccer: current practice and perceptions from the elite to youth academy level

M Herold, M Kempe, P Bauer… - Journal of sports science …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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, knowledge …

Expected passes: Determining the difficulty of a pass in football (soccer) using spatio-temporal data

G Anzer, P Bauer - Data mining and knowledge discovery, 2022 - Springer
Passes are by far football's (soccer) most frequent event, yet surprisingly little meaningful
research has been devoted to quantify them. With the increase in availability of so-called …

A robust method for clustering football players with mixed attributes

P D'Urso, L De Giovanni, V Vitale - Annals of Operations Research, 2023 - Springer
A robust fuzzy clustering model for mixed data is proposed. For each variable, or attribute, a
proper dissimilarity measure is computed and the clustering procedure combines the …

[HTML][HTML] Passing networks and tactical action in football: A systematic review

S Caicedo-Parada, C Lago-Peñas… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study is to examine the most significant literature on network analyses and
factors associated with tactical action in football. A systematic review was conducted on Web …

Determinants of sport performance in European football: What can we learn from the data?

F Zambom-Ferraresi, V Rios, F Lera-López - Decision Support Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
Nowadays game-related statistics in the sports industry are demanded by coaches, players,
managers, journalists, supporters, fans, video games developers, betting markets and …

[HTML][HTML] Hierarchy selection: New team ranking indicators for cyclist multi-stage races

M Ausloos - European Journal of Operational Research, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, I report some investigation discussing team selection, whence hierarchy,
through ranking indicators, for example when “measuring” professional cyclist team's …