Evaluation of creating scoring opportunities for teammates in soccer via trajectory prediction. (arXiv:2206.01899v1 [cs.AI])

Evaluating the individual movements for teammates in soccer players is
crucial for assessing teamwork, scouting, and fan engagement. It has been said
that players in a 90-min game do not have the ball for about 87 minutes on
average. However, it has remained difficult to evaluate an attacking player
without receiving the ball, and to reveal how movement contributes to the
creation of scoring opportunities for teammates. In this paper, we evaluate
players who create off-ball scoring opportunities by comparing …

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