by the Physics Arxiv Blog, Technology Review
Javier Lopez Pena at University College London and Hugo Touchette at Queen Mary University of London reveal an entirely new way to analyse and characterise the performance of soccer teams and players using network theory. They say their approach produces a quantifiable representation of a team’s style, identifies key individuals and highlights potential weaknesses. Their idea is to think of each player as a node in a network and each pass as an edge that connects nodes. They then distribute the nodes in a way that reflects the playing position of each player on the pitch.
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428399/pagerank-algorithm-reveals-soccer-teams/
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