Uncovering Soccer Teams Passing Strategies Using Implication Rules
This work addresses the analysis of team sports strategies for coaches or analysts, but it appears incremental as it applies existing FCA methods to soccer data.
The paper tackled the problem of identifying frequent passing sequences in soccer teams by introducing a Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) approach based on the Duquenne-Guigues basis and social network analysis, but no concrete results or numbers were provided.
Formal Concept Analysis FCA has seen application in different knowledge areas, including Social Network Analysis SNA. In turn, research has also shown the applicability of SNA in assessing team sports. In this project, to uncover frequent passing sequences of a soccer team, an FCA based approach is introduced. The approach relies on a minimum cover of implications, the Duquenne Guigues DG basis and the notion that a soccer teams passes describe a social network.