Automatically discovering offensive patterns in soccer match data

摘要

In recent years, many professional sports clubs have adopted camera-based tracking technology that captures the location of both the players and the ball at a high frequency. Nevertheless, the valuable information that is hidden in these performance data is rarely used in their decision-making process. What is missing are the computational methods to analyze these data in great depth. This paper addresses the task of automatically discovering patterns in offensive strategies in professional soccer matches. To address this task, we propose an inductive logic programming approach that can easily deal with the relational structure of the data. An experimental study shows the utility of our approach.