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Vector field theory in motion: Revealing latent potentials in soccer dynamics
Paula Rodríguez-Sánchez, Roberto López del Campo, Ricardo Resta +3
Team sports offer a natural laboratory for studying collective motion in competitive environments. While recent tracking technologies enabled detailed analysis of player and ball t…
Interplay between pitch control and top speed in soccer: The stamina factor
Marco F. da Silva, A. Novillo, A. Aleta +4
In this study, we investigate the interplay between player speed and ball control in soccer. We present a novel pitch control algorithm that quantifies the probability of a player…
Heatmaps in soccer: event vs tracking datasets
D. Garrido, B. Burriel, R. Resta +2
We investigate how similar heatmaps of soccer players are when constructed from (i) event datasets and (ii) tracking datasets. When using event datasets, we show that the scale at…
Asymmetries in football: The pass-goal paradox
D. R. Antequera, D. Garrido, I. Echegoyen +3
We investigate the relation between the number of passes made by a football team and the number of goals. We analyze the 380 matches of a complete season of the Spanish national le…
Defining a historic football team: Using Network Science to analyze Guardiola's F.C. Barcelona
J. M. Buldu, J. Busquets, I. Echegoyen +1
The application of Network Science to social systems has introduced new methodologies to analyze classical problems such as the emergence of epidemics, the arousal of cooperation b…
Using network science to analyze football passing networks: dynamics, space, time and the multilayer nature of the game
J. M. Buldú, J. Busquets, J. H. Martínez +4
From the diversity of applications of Network Science, in this Opinion Paper we are concerned about its potential to analyze one of the most extended group sports: Football (soccer…