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Matthew J Penn1, Christl A Donnelly1,2, Samir Bhatt3,4
1Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Abstract:
Player tracking data remain out of reach for many professional football teams, as their video feeds are not sufficiently high quality for computer vision technologies to be used. To help bridge this gap, we present a method that can estimate continuous full-pitch tracking data from discrete data made from broadcast footage. Such data could be collected by clubs or players at a similar cost to event data, which are widely available down to the semi-professional level. We test our method using open-source tracking data and include a version that can be applied to a large set of over 200 games with such discrete data.
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