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Rethinking player evaluation in sports: Goals above expectation and beyond
Robert Bajons, Lucas Kook
A popular quantitative approach to evaluating player performance in sports involves comparing an observed outcome to the expected outcome ignoring player involvement, which is esti…
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The path to a goal: Understanding soccer possessions via path signatures
David Hirnschall, Robert Bajons
We present a novel framework for predicting next actions in soccer possessions by leveraging path signatures to encode their complex spatio-temporal structure. Unlike existing appr…