Generalized-VDEP

Generalized VDEP is a method of the evaluation of team defense in football. We hope that this indicator will allow you to quantitatively evaluate football tactics.

Requirements

• python 3.7
• To install requirements:

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Data

• StatsBomb opendata: https://github.com/statsbomb/open-data/ (I modified the filename (open-data-master) to statsbomb-open-rawdata)
• SPADL format representation: https://socceraction.readthedocs.io/en/latest/documentation/SPADL.html

Usage

• See run.sh

Reference

• VDEP (previous work)

@article{toda2022evaluation,
  title={Evaluation of soccer team defense based on prediction models of ball recovery and being attacked: A pilot study},
  author={Toda, Kosuke and Teranishi, Masakiyo and Kushiro, Keisuke and Fujii, Keisuke},
  journal={Plos one},
  volume={17},
  number={1},
  pages={e0263051},
  year={2022},
  publisher={Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA}
}

• Generalized VDEP (this work)

@article{umemoto2022location,
  title={Location analysis of players in UEFA EURO 2020 and 2022 using generalized valuation of defense by estimating probabilities},
  author={Umemoto, Rikuhei and Tsutsui, Kazushi and Fujii, Keisuke},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.00021},
  year={2022}
}