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Spatial and spatiotemporal analysis of soccer

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ABSTRACT

Soccer matches consist of spatial and spatiotemporal objects including a ball, players, and a field. Players and ball are also moving objects. This means that spatial and spatiotemporal analysis on ball and players could be useful in studying soccer tactics. From this view point, we extend the application areas of spatial information science to soccer tactic analysis. First we define a feature model to specify the basic units of analysis. Second, we study the morphological properties of each feature type. Third, a set of operations are defined for each feature type. Fourth, we perform an experiment with a real data set of the 2006 World Cup final match to validate the usefulness of our framework. Even though we focus on soccer match, we expect that this framework can be applied to similar sports such as handball and basket ball.

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