Soccer Analytics Resources

Collection of references, datasets and software libraries for soccer analytics.

References

Valuing On-the-Ball Actions

Valuing Actions by Estimating Probabilities (VAEP)

• Actions Speak Louder Than Goals: Valuing Player Actions in Soccer (V1). Tom Decroos, Lotte Bransen, Jan Van Haaren, Jesse Davis. arXiv. Preprint paper. Appeared on 18 February 2018.
• Actions Speak Louder Than Goals: Valuing Player Actions in Soccer (V2). Tom Decroos, Lotte Bransen, Jan Van Haaren, Jesse Davis. International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining. Conference paper. Appeared on 25 July 2019.
• Interpretable Prediction of Goals in Soccer. Tom Decroos, Jesse Davis. StatsBomb Conference. Conference paper. Appeared on 17 October 2019.
• Valuing the Art of Pressing. Pieter Robberechts. StatsBomb Conference. Conference paper. Appeared on 17 October 2019.
• Valuing On-the-Ball Actions in Soccer: A Critical Comparison of xT and VAEP. Maaike Van Roy, Pieter Robberechts, Tom Decroos, Jesse Davis. DTAI Sports Analytics Lab. Blog post. Appeared on 18 December 2019.
• Valuing On-the-Ball Actions in Soccer: A Critical Comparison of xT and VAEP. Maaike Van Roy, Pieter Robberechts, Tom Decroos, Jesse Davis. Workshop on Artifical Intelligence in Team Sports. Workshop paper. Appeared on 08 February 2020.
• Exploring How VAEP Values Actions. Pieter Robberechts. DTAI Sports Analytics Lab. Blog post. Appeared on 27 April 2020.
• Introducing Atomic-SPADL: A New Way to Represent Event Stream Data. Tom Decroos, Pieter Robberechts, Jesse Davis. DTAI Sports Analytics Lab. Blog post. Appeared on 05 May 2020.
• VAEP: An Objective Approach to Valuing On-the-Ball Actions in Soccer. Tom Decroos, Lotte Bransen, Jan Van Haaren, Jesse Davis. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Conference abstract. Appeared on 07 January 2021.
• Valuing Actions: Knowing When Your Model Doesn't Have a Clue. Charles William. openGoal. Blog post. Appeared on 22 February 2021.
• Versatile Verification of Soccer Analytics Models. Laurens Devos, Wannes Meert, Jesse Davis, Pieter Robberechts. DTAI Sports Analytics Lab. Blog post. Appeared on 14 July 2021.

Expected Threat (xT)

• Introducing Expected Threat (xT). Karun Singh. Karun Singh. Blog post. Appeared on 15 February 2019.
• Valuing On-the-Ball Actions in Soccer: A Critical Comparison of xT and VAEP. Maaike Van Roy, Pieter Robberechts, Tom Decroos, Jesse Davis. DTAI Sports Analytics Lab. Blog post. Appeared on 18 December 2019.
• Valuing On-the-Ball Actions in Soccer: A Critical Comparison of xT and VAEP. Maaike Van Roy, Pieter Robberechts, Tom Decroos, Jesse Davis. Workshop on Artifical Intelligence in Team Sports. Workshop paper. Appeared on 08 February 2020.

Possession Value (PV)

• Introducing a Possession Value Framework. Nils Mackay. Stats Perform. Blog post. Appeared on 03 October 2019.
• Evolving Our Possession Value Framework. Jonny Whitmore. Stats Perform. Blog post. Appeared on 07 October 2020.

Goals Added (g+)

• Goals Added: Introducing a New Way to Measure Soccer. John Muller. American Soccer Analysis. Blog post. Appeared on 04 May 2020.

Other

• A Framework for Tactical Analysis and Individual Offensive Production Assessment in Soccer Using Markov Chains. Sarah Rudd. New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports. Conference presentation. Appeared on 24 September 2011.
• STARSS: A Spatio-Temporal Action Rating System for Soccer. Tom Decroos, Jan Van Haaren, Vladimir Dzyuba, Jesse Davis. Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics. Workshop paper. Appeared on 18 September 2017.
• Attacking Contributions: Markov Models for Football. Derrick Yam. StatsBomb. Blog post. Appeared on 21 February 2019.
• Expected Potential (xPo). Aditya Kothari. The Come On Man. Blog post. Appeared on 05 April 2020.
• Our Thoughts on American Soccer Analysis' G+ Metric. Jesse Davis, Tom Decroos, Pieter Robberechts, Jan Van Haaren, Lotte Bransen. DTAI Sports Analytics Lab. Blog post. Appeared on 15 May 2020.
• Deep Soccer Analytics: Learning an Action-Value Function for Evaluating Soccer Players. Guiliang Liu, Yudong Luo, Oliver Schulte, Tarak Kharrat. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Journal paper. Appeared on 21 July 2020.

Datasets

• StatsBomb Open Data. Event dataset for men's and women's soccer.
• Wyscout Match Event Dataset. Event dataset for men's soccer.
• SkillCorner Open Data. Broadcast tracking dataset for nine matches.
• Metrica Sports Sample Data. Tracking and event dataset for two anonymized matches.

Python Libraries

• codeball
• football-packing
• kloppy
• matplotsoccer
• mplsoccer
• soccer-xg
• socceraction
• soccerplots
• statsbomb-parser
• statsbombapi
• statsbombpy
• tyrone_mings