Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SPORT SCIENCE
Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages 481-496Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/17461391.2020.1747552
Keywords
Football; big data; tactical analysis; team sport; performance analysis
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- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
- FAPESP (project title: The Secret of Playing Football: Brazil vs. The Netherlands)
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The passage discusses the potential of data collected in professional soccer for analyzing tactical behavior, and the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration to overcome challenges in this field. By integrating computer science, new insights can be gained in sports science, and a multidisciplinary framework is presented to analyze tactical behavior in soccer. Key challenges in the data analytics process are discussed, along with proposed solutions through multidisciplinary collaboration to unlock the potential of position tracking data in sports analytics.
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 challenges the data management and analytics methods commonly employed in sports. By joining forces with computer science, solutions to these challenges could be achieved, helping sports science to find new insights, as is happening in other scientific domains. We aim to bring multiple domains together in the context of analysing tactical behaviour in soccer using position tracking data. A systematic literature search for studies employing position tracking data to study tactical behaviour in soccer was conducted in seven electronic databases, resulting in 2338 identified studies and finally the inclusion of 73 papers. Each domain clearly contributes to the analysis of tactical behaviour, albeit in - sometimes radically - different ways. Accordingly, we present a multidisciplinary framework where each domain's contributions to feature construction, modelling and interpretation can be situated. We discuss a set of key challenges concerning the data analytics process, specifically feature construction, spatial and temporal aggregation. Moreover, we discuss how these challenges could be resolved through multidisciplinary collaboration, which is pivotal in unlocking the potential of position tracking data in sports analytics.
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