An interactive dashboard for searching and comparing soccer performance scores
This provides a practical tool for actors in the soccer industry, such as talent scouts and coaches, but is incremental as it builds on existing performance evaluation algorithms.
The paper tackles the lack of effective tools for comparing and searching soccer player performance by designing an interactive web dashboard that integrates with a performance evaluation algorithm, enabling tasks like searching by age, role, or growth trends, and finding similar players based on pitching behavior.
The performance of soccer players is one of most discussed aspects by many actors in the soccer industry: from supporters to journalists, from coaches to talent scouts. Unfortunately, the dashboards available online provide no effective way to compare the evolution of the performance of players or to find players behaving similarly on the field. This paper describes the design of a web dashboard that interacts via APIs with a performance evaluation algorithm and provides graphical tools that allow the user to perform many tasks, such as to search or compare players by age, role or trend of growth in their performance, find similar players based on their pitching behavior, change the algorithm's parameters to obtain customized performance scores. We also describe an example of how a talent scout can interact with the dashboard to find young, promising talents.