Introduction to football analysis with tracking data in python.

This is the fourth lecture in our series on football data analysis in Python. Laurie Shaw gives an introduction to working with player tracking data, and shows how to create shot maps with both tracking and event data.

[alexanderburton]

I have very, very basic experience with Python, but I adore football and am at that point in my career where I am seeking change. I'm 32 years old so hopefully not too old to learn and to be able to one day land a job in football data analytics! This video really was great and made me very excited to learn python.

[aarronbriggs]

Maths and football! This has to be heaven

[totalfootballanalysis]

Amazing to get such a detailed insight into football data analysis!
Looking forward to watching more of your videos! :)

[dolfinho]

What a huge content! Thanks!
If you make a online course I buy immediately!

[BigDataSport]

Top Class Content, many thanks Laurie, David and all FoT contributors

[mooreideas]

I’m a sports data analyst for Second Spectrum. I’m trying my best to work my way up and make this a career, I keep hearing this word “python” in job listings for the NBA and that’s what lead me to this video!

[AndersonSantos-bhzt]

First, thanks a lot, Laurie Shaw.

If anyone would like to know event frequencies per period (First Period or Second Period), I would like to contribute (using groupy):

[stevedix]

Fantastic content - it references that this is part 4. Can someone provide a link to the other parts in the series?

[stevedix]

Can someone help? Tutorial excellent and I've created pass maps etc. I'm trying to work out how I can plot 2 pitches side by side showing passes for 2 different players on the 2 pitches. I'm looking at subplots (is this the correct way of doing it?). I can get the 2 pitches but not in 1 figure. Any help or pointers, much appreciated. Thanks.

[benephr]

Hello! I want to extract all touches of a certain player from a video of a full match automatically, can we achieve that with your approach? Thank you

[juank]

Great!. I was trying with some python code to do some predictions, but it is not too easy.

[tomymacmillan]

Nice course! Do you know how this data is recolected? Hardware device? Computer vision?

[mangaikaduna]

thanks much for this analysis: but my very concern and desire is that i want to design a program that will fetch a particular or current seasons games, match played (Mp), goals scored, goals conceded for both home (Hm) and away(Aw) teams, each of which should automatically run in a respective input unit for further analysis. the input units looks like this;

#TeamA
Hm = str(input('Home: '))
Mpa = int(input('enter Mp:'))
HXa = int(input('Scored: '))
HXb = int(input('Conceded: '))

#TeamB
Aw = str(input('Away: '))
Mpb = int(input('enter Mp:'))
AYa = int(input('Scored: '))
AYb = int(input('Conceded: ')) #How can you go about helping me please?

[abdelkrimkobbi]

first of all thanks for your course and I would like to know if you have in your Channel videos for beginner as me.cheers coach

[paulpolizzi]

This is amazing, i want to learn more about it, never coded in my life, would this work with the videos of my kids soccer U13 games? I've been looking for something to track data like this to help the coaches with the team to preform better. Thank you again.

[umangjaiswal]

where to get the tracking data of champions league or any current matches .
any one ??

[yossefissa]

please i need to ask how do you write the code on console it gaves me error is there a special console for that or how can i do it with normal console

[debapamghosh]

Hello People, I am very new to Python. Need some help. When I am trying to compile the modules Metrica_IO and Metrica_Viz I am getting an error "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ". I have downloaded all the codes in the same working folder. Is there anything I am missing?

[stevengallagher]

Very new user to python here, but my locations appear inverted to what you have. For example the shot is taken from the same location but from the post nearest the bottom of the screen. Also how do I get the pitch object to pop out in a separate window, mine just appears in the python console? TIA

[dethmoon]

For the 2nd question;
i couldnt find the solution on how to do it on 1 figure. I can seperate the events of goal from the other shots and do necessary changes but can not display on them in 1 figure.
It would be nice if you can give the solutions as well :)
Thank you for the video!