Title
Visual Soccer Analytics: Understanding the Characteristics of Collective Team Movement Based on Feature-Driven Analysis and Abstraction
Abstract
With recent advances in sensor technologies, large amounts of movement data have become available in many application areas. A novel, promising application is the data-driven analysis of team sport. Specifically, soccer matches comprise rich, multivariate movement data at high temporal and geospatial resolution. Capturing and analyzing complex movement patterns and interdependencies between the players with respect to various characteristics is challenging. So far, soccer experts manually post-analyze game situations and depict certain patterns with respect to their experience. We propose a visual analysis system for interactive identification of soccer patterns and situations being of interest to the analyst. Our approach builds on a preliminary system, which is enhanced by semantic features defined together with a soccer domain expert. The system includes a range of useful visualizations to show the ranking of features over time and plots the change of game play situations, both helping the analyst to interpret complex game situations. A novel workflow includes improving the analysis process by a learning stage, taking into account user feedback. We evaluate our approach by analyzing real-world soccer matches, illustrate several use cases and collect additional expert feedback. The resulting findings are discussed with subject matter experts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.3390/ijgi4042159
ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
visual analytics,sport analytics,soccer analysis
Geospatial analysis,Interdependence,Data science,Use case,Ranking,Computer science,Subject-matter expert,Visual analytics,Analytics,Multimedia,Workflow
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
4
4
2220-9964
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.67
10
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stein, M.11028.24
Johannes Häussler2142.70
dominik jackle3588.66
Halldor Janetzko431220.69
Tobias Schreck51854123.28
Daniel A. Keim677041141.60