We analyseerden het 2019/2020 seizoen van de Pro League op basis van geavanceerde statistieken. Samen met Pieter Robberechts Maaike Van Roy Zie onze nieuwe blogpost: dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/sports/blog/ee…

Curious about how representing soccer event stream data affects learning models like VAEP? Check out our blogpost on Atomic-SPADL, an alternative version of our popular SPADL representation! Jesse Davis Pieter Robberechts #socceranalytics #footballanalytics dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/sports/blog/in…

Data representation is a key topic in #AI that is less discussed in #sportsanalytics. We show how representational design choices can have interesting impacts on the ability to learn models from football (soccer) event stream data. Tom Decroos Pieter Robberechts Maaike Van Roy

How many different types of passes exist in soccer? Our model suggests there are 71. Watch out for SoccerMix: our new paper at the 2020 ECML PKDD conference that introduces a completely new way to think about player actions in soccer! Maaike Van Roy Jesse Davis #socceranalytics

I am speaking at ECML-PKDD 2020 tonight! Please checkout the details of my talk at: whova.com/embedded/speak… w/ Tom Decroos Jesse Davis #ecmlpkdd2020

I am excited to be giving an invited talk tomorrow about characterizing the playing style of football players at the "Analytics in Sports Tomorrow" event hosted by FC Barcelona and Barça Innovation Hub. joint work w/Tom Decroos Maaike Van Roy sportstomorrow.fcbarcelona.com/project/analyt…

Check out our new blog post on SoccerMix, which captures playing style in soccer by considering both the location and direction of actions. w/Tom Decroos Maaike Van Roy Pieter Robberechts dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/sports/blog/so…

Wie haalt de play-offs? Wie zijn de beste spelers? Bekijk onze nieuwste blog post voor een tussentijdse data-analyse van de Jupiler Pro League! Samen met Pieter Robberechts en Jesse Davis. #jpl dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/sports/blog/ee…

Check out our data-driven review of the first half of the EPL season! We use VAEP and xT to pick a team of the season, identify top transfers, and highlight rising young talents. w/Maaike Van Roy Pieter Robberechts dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/sports/blog/a-…

Excited to be giving a talk today at #StatsBombConference about our work on "Optimally Disrupting Opponent Build-ups" (w/ Pieter Robberechts Luc De Raedt Jesse Davis). Feel free to drop by if you're attending, or reach out if you have any questions.

Excited to be giving a talk today at the Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium (mldas.org) about our approach to evaluate shot decisions in soccer!

Thrilled that our new JAIR paper about our Markov Framework for Soccer has been published!🥳Pieter Robberechts Wen-Chi Yang Jesse Davis Luc De Raedt

Attending ECML PKDD and interested in sports ⚽🏀🏈? Don’t miss our tutorial on Team Sports Analytics tomorrow! Our goal is to provide an accessible overview of existing work on the use of machine learning in sports. Check out the details here 👉dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/tutorials/spor…

Part 2 in our series on possession value models design decisions🔍: How the definition of "near future" has interesting effects on player ratings. It's not about 'better,' but about understanding the nuances. w/ Pieter Robberechts Jesse Davis Lode Van Tente dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/sports/blog/an…