2 papers
cs.LG2026
Maximising the Set-Piece Return: Optimising Football Corner Tactics with Graph Reinforcement Learning
Sean Groom, Michael Groom, Francisco Belo +4
Machine learning is increasingly employed for the evaluation of football tactics. However, existing approaches focus on characterising historical actions or analyst-specified count…
cs.LG2026
A Machine Learning Framework for Off Ball Defensive Role and Performance Evaluation in Football
Sean Groom, Shuo Wang, Francisco Belo +2
Evaluating off-ball defensive performance in football is challenging, as traditional metrics do not capture the nuanced coordinated movements that limit opponent action selection a…