Inferring the Intention Behind Soccer Smart Decision of Offensive vs Defensive Play with Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Codes for the paper: Inferring the Intention Behind Soccer Smart Decision of Offensive vs Defensive Play with Inverse Reinforcement Learning

This repository contains generating batch environments of states and actions from wyscout soccer logs, containing all the spatio-temporal events (passes, shots, fouls, etc.) that occur during all matches of an entire season of seven competitions (La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, Premier League, Ligue 1, FIFA World Cup 2018, UEFA Euro Cup 2016). Dataset is provided online: https://figshare.com/collections/Soccer_match_event_dataset/4415000/5

Applies GIRL algorithm, and clusters the team experts according to their intention to play offensive or defensive.