Additionally the Friends of Tracking YouTube channel has a good discussion by Javier Fernández, Suds G, Fran Peralta, Pascal Bauer, and David Sumpter (all working at clubs or for federations) on this very subject: youtube.com/watch?v=9J8CwO…

The 26th of October is the last day for submitting a paper to this year's FCB Sports Analytics Conference. You'll be sharing the scene with top leaders in sports analytics (many different sports this year) Oh, and Pau Gasol is giving the first talk!. sportstomorrow.fcbarcelona.com/project/analyt…

I'm really excited to be part of the fantastic speaker lineup for the FC Barcelona & Barça Innovation Hub "Analytics in Sports Tomorrow" conference in a few weeks. There are some very good speakers in the schedule. sportstomorrow.fcbarcelona.com/project/analyt…

Joyful day! Today is the kickoff of the Sports Tomorrow's conferences, including our Sports Analytics one (3rd edition). I start a short thread with useful information about the conference, including speakers, research papers, live QA sessions, and video availability for 45 days

The 3rd talk of the Harvard Sports Analytics Lab / ASA Stats in Sport seminar series is now available online. I present work done with Suds G (SL Benfica) to identify the corner kick 'playbooks' of soccer teams using tracking and event data. youtu.be/yfPC1O_g-I8

It was really excited to present our paper at Sloan Sports Conf. this year, and am absolutely thrilled that Suds G and I finished in first place in the research paper competition. #SSAC21

Last week's Friends of Tracking episode is now available! youtube.com/watch?v=kzzRzn…. It has 4 parts (roughly): Introductions: 0-12:30 John Muller: 12:30-29 Harry Moyal: Group Discussion: 47-1:29:15

Thanks for having me on @strengthofsci! The trick in the coming seasons will be integrating the information we get from a technical, tactical, and physical perspective and how that influences the decision making around on the ball actions and positioning

🚨New sample game🚨 On Thursday Metrica Sports announced a 3rd sample game. Why is this interesting you might wonder? There are already 2 out, a 3rd one doesn't seem like a big deal. Wrong! This game allows you to experiment with codeball and data driven video analysis! 🧵👇

An absolutely unbelievable line up for Friends of Tracking the coming weeks. First up on Thursday is data journalist extraordinaire John Burn-Murdoch. John Burn-Murdoch youtu.be/uoFN3nxeMco

As part of a study of EDI in the sports analytics sector I'm involved in at the UofT, we're trying to get as many people working in sports analytics to take this survey as possible: sportsanalytics.utoronto.ca/edi-survey/ Would greatly appreciate if you would share this with your SA networks!

Part two of the Ajax data scientists masterclass for Friends of Tracking. youtu.be/FqaAG1l8nKw via YouTube

My final act at Harvard University was to design and teach a new course, Stat 143: Sports Analytics. It was a lot of work but a great experience, and I particularly enjoyed reading the students' final projects. 1/2

NEW: An update from me about all the stuff going on at @StatsBomb right now. Includes information around the SB Conference in October, and especially juice tidbits about the data we are releasing for the research paper contest. statsbomb.com/2021/05/statsb…

Update: Good news, our approach for EPV in soccer has been published in the Machine Learning Journal. We updated the previous version with more information and clearer explanations. And it's available with Open Access! You can take a look at it here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Extensive thanks for all your contributions & (public, private) messages of support! Here's our list of female (identifying) sports analysts to choose from as speakers in seminars, conferences, clubs, etc. Document updates, corrections, additions welcome! mast.queensu.ca/~cpfaff/Female…

🇺🇦 This moment... Speachless! 🙌

Congrats to Detection of Tactical Patterns Using Semi-Supervised Graph Neural Networks for placing 1st in our Research Papers Competition 🏆 #SSAC22 #SeizeTheData

Highly recommend this course to create a strong base of the applied nexus between math and football

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