Illustrating changes in landscapes of passing opportunities along a set of competitive football matches

Abstract This study aims to illustrate the landscape of passing opportunities of a football team across a set of competitive matches. To do so positional data of 5 competitive matches was used to create polygons of pass availability. Passes were divided into three types depending on the hypothetical...

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Autores principales:	Luis Ignacio Gómez-Jordana, Rodrigo Amaro e Silva, João Milho, Angel Ric, Pedro Passos
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:eab33faf5148452e91573603a4c291dc2021-12-02T14:49:34ZIllustrating changes in landscapes of passing opportunities along a set of competitive football matches10.1038/s41598-021-89184-62045-2322https://doaj.org/article/eab33faf5148452e91573603a4c291dc2021-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89184-6https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract This study aims to illustrate the landscape of passing opportunities of a football team across a set of competitive matches. To do so positional data of 5 competitive matches was used to create polygons of pass availability. Passes were divided into three types depending on the hypothetical threat they may pose to the opposing defense (penetrative, support, and backwards passes). These categories were used to create three heatmaps per match. Moreover, the mean time of passing opportunities was calculated and compared across matches and for the three categories of passes. Due to the specificity of player’s interactive behavior, results showed heatmaps with a variety of patterns. Specifically the fifth match was very dissimilar to the other four. However, characterizing a football match in terms of passing opportunities with a single heatmap dismisses the variety of dynamics that occur throughout a match. Therefore, three temporal heatmaps over windows of 10 min were presented highlighting on-going dynamical changes in pass availability. Results also display that penetrative passes were available over shorter periods of time than backward passes that were available shorter than support passes. The results highlight the sensibility of the model to different task constrains that emerge within football matches.Luis Ignacio Gómez-JordanaRodrigo Amaro e SilvaJoão MilhoAngel RicPedro PassosNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2021)
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description	Abstract This study aims to illustrate the landscape of passing opportunities of a football team across a set of competitive matches. To do so positional data of 5 competitive matches was used to create polygons of pass availability. Passes were divided into three types depending on the hypothetical threat they may pose to the opposing defense (penetrative, support, and backwards passes). These categories were used to create three heatmaps per match. Moreover, the mean time of passing opportunities was calculated and compared across matches and for the three categories of passes. Due to the specificity of player’s interactive behavior, results showed heatmaps with a variety of patterns. Specifically the fifth match was very dissimilar to the other four. However, characterizing a football match in terms of passing opportunities with a single heatmap dismisses the variety of dynamics that occur throughout a match. Therefore, three temporal heatmaps over windows of 10 min were presented highlighting on-going dynamical changes in pass availability. Results also display that penetrative passes were available over shorter periods of time than backward passes that were available shorter than support passes. The results highlight the sensibility of the model to different task constrains that emerge within football matches.
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title	Illustrating changes in landscapes of passing opportunities along a set of competitive football matches
title_short	Illustrating changes in landscapes of passing opportunities along a set of competitive football matches
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Illustrating changes in landscapes of passing opportunities along a set of competitive football matches

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