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Regularized Adjusted Plus-Minus Models for Evaluating and Scouting Football (Soccer) Players using Possession Sequences
Robert Bajons, Kurt Hornik
This paper presents a novel framework for evaluating players in association football (soccer). Our method uses possession sequences, i.e. sequences of consecutive on-ball actions,…
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PEP: a tackle value measuring the prevention of expected points
Robert Bajons, Jan-Ole Koslik, Rouven Michels +1
Traditional assessments of tackling in American Football often only consider the number of tackles made, without adequately accounting for their context and importance for the game…