I'm very excited to be able to present my work, through collaboration with Sentient Sports, in valuing defensive units in football as part of the Statsbomb Conference. I also look forward to reading the other papers in the research track.

ANNOUNCED: The 2022 #StatsBombConference Agenda We're incredibly excited to be hosting this all-star lineup across the Main Stage and the Research Stage at Wembley on Tuesday 20th September Tickets are on sale for *one more week*. Get yours here: statsbomb.com/events/statsbo…

The 2022 StatsBomb Conference Research Papers The set of research papers for our 2022 conference are available to read now: statsbomb.com/articles/socce…

I was proud to be able to present my work at the @StatsBomb Conference 2022. It was also great to hear many interesting talks and connect with people in the field. Thanks to my colleagues at Sentient Sports and University of Southampton for their support throughout the work!

My talk at the @StatsBomb conference has now been uploaded! It was a pleasure to be able to present my work and would be great to have any discussions with people about the work! youtube.com/watch?v=sGGyi5…

With the 2022 FIFA World Cup kicking off today in Qatar, we use our match prediction model to simulate the outcome of the tournament. We ran 5,000 Monte Carlo simulations and show the results for how far we expect our top 10 teams to reach in the competition ⚽ 📊

Fascinating! Informed decision making in sport using both human knowledge and the power of AI models seems an exciting way forward and this feels like a new AI staff member that can collate and present insightful reports quickly and have discussions regarding these results.

Thrilled to announce we've won a grant from the UK's innovation agency @InnovateUK to fund research into trustworthy generative AI systems for sport!

I just wanted to send this farewell message to all Manchester United supporters. I would like to express my unwavering gratitude and appreciation for the love from the last 12 years. We’ve achieved a lot since my dear Sir Alex Ferguson brought me to this club. I took incredible

Have you seen the 2-minute video abstract for our upcoming #KDD2023 paper? 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=hV3whg… We're in the running for the audience appreciation award, and you can make a difference! Show your support by giving it a 👍 and let's aim for the highest view count! 🏆😁

Excited to announce that we will be organizing the 11th Edition of Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics ECML PKDD in September!  w/Jan Van Haaren (@janvanhaaren.be on Bluesky) Albrecht Zimmermann and Ulf dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/events/MLSA24/

The 11th Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics (MLSA) will take place in September in Vilnius, Lithuania. Our workshop welcomes sports analytics research papers involving machine learning and data mining. ECML PKDD (1/2)

Euro 2024 kicks off this evening, so we set out simulation engine the task of predicting it. Using information about squads, tactics, and style to simulate the tournament 1000s of times, it thinks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England, 🇫🇷 France and 🇩🇪 Germany have the best chance of success. #euro2024