What drives a goalkeepers' decisions?. (arXiv:2211.00374v1 [cs.LG])

In soccer games, the goalkeeper's performance is an important factor to the
success of the whole team. Despite the goalkeeper's importance, little
attention has been paid to their performance in events and tracking data. Here,
we developed a model to predict which movements would be most effective for
shot-stopping and compare it to the real-life behavior of goalkeepers. This
model evaluates the performance of goalkeepers based on their position and dive
radius. We found that contrary to the movements that …

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