Data Analytics in Football: Positional Data Collection, Modelling and Analysis

Data Analytics in Football provides students, researchers, and coaches with a solid foundation in modern performance analysis, challenging long-held assumptions and encouraging a new way of thinking about football analysis. It explores positional data collection, modeling, analysis, and interpretation, defining the role of positional data in football match analysis and examining data collection in relation to other sports. Accessibly written, packed with examples from elite football, and supplemented with expert interviews, it is a vital resource for anyone interested in performance analysis and skill acquisition or football more generally.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 162 pages
Publication date: 22 December 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Data Analytics in Football is a comprehensive guide that provides students, researchers, and coaches with a solid foundation in modern performance analysis. It delves into the utilization of positional data, exploring how it can be collected, modeled, analyzed, and interpreted. By introducing cutting-edge methods, the book challenges long-held assumptions and encourages a fresh perspective on football analysis. The book aims to define the role of positional data in football match analysis by examining various topics, including:

What is positional data analysis, and how did it emerge from conventional match analysis?

How can positional data be collected, and which technologies can be used?

What key performance indicators based on positional data should be used?

How can traditional match analysis be complemented by using positional data and advanced KPIs?

How can these new methods evolve in the future?

Based on data collected from active leagues and fully revised for the new second edition, the text also examines data collection in relation to other sports, how a data-driven approach in decision-making is achieved by professional teams, the potential of the new methods of data collection, and how they could evolve in the future.

Accessibly written, packed with examples from elite football, and supplemented with expert interviews, Data Analytics in Football is a thought-provoking, rigorously evidence-based guide future to the use of data analytics in football performance analysis. As such, it is a vital resource for any student, researcher, or coach interested in performance analysis and skill acquisition, or anyone interested in football more generally.

Weight: 330g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032532479
Edition number: 2 ed