Data Analytics in Football

Data Analytics in Football provides students, researchers and coaches with a firm grounding in the principles of modern performance analysis. It offers an insight into the use of positional data, exploring how it can be collected, modelled, analysed and interpreted.

Autorentext

Daniel Memmert is Professor and Executive Head of the Institute of Exercise Training and and Sports Informatics at the German Sport University Cologne, Germany. His scientific work focuses on movement science, sports psychology, and computer science in sports. The institute cooperates with various Bundesliga football teams and DAX companies, and it has organized the first international master's degree course in match analysis and the certificate "Technical Sports Director of Youth Performance Soccer and Amateur Soccer".

Dominik Raabe is Ph.D. student at the German Sport University Cologne, Germany. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Osnabrück, Germany, and a Master of Science degree in Scientific Computing from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. He is consulting elite level sports organizations around the globe.

Klappentext

Data Analytics in Football provides students, researchers and coaches with a firm grounding in the principles of modern performance analysis. It offers an insight into the use of positional data, exploring how it can be collected, modelled, analysed and interpreted.

Inhalt

1. Where Is the Revolution?

2. A Historical Perspective on Positional Data

3. Technological Background

4. Collecting Data in the Bundesliga

5. In Search of the Holy Grail

6. Betting and Sports Analytics

7. Match Intensity

8. From Media to Storytelling

9. Key Properties of Long-Term Success in Football

10. The Key to Success

11. Reasons For Dominance

12. FCB Versus FCB

13. Home Advantage

14. Managerial Influence

15. All on Attack

16. Laws of a Derby

17. Women Vs. Men - Draw in Tactical Performance

18. Experimental Tactics Research

19. Positional Data Meet Sport Psychology

20. Summary