OptaPro Forum talks
March 2, 2023 · View on GitHub
At some point StatsPerform unlisted all the Opta pro forum talks from YouTube, meaning they can only be accessed if you have the URL (i.e. they cannot be found through search).
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2014
2015
- Goals Change Games
- Finding square pegs for square holes
- Quantitative analysis of leader-follower interactions in footballers collective movement (slides only)
- Beyond shots: a new approach to quantifying scoring opportunities
- Breaking down FC Bayern's possession game
2016
- The element of surprise in attack
- Assessing the penalty box prowess of goalkeepers
- An extra year of kindergarten
- Dean Oliver guest talk
2017
- Pass probabilities in football
- Shoot! Optimising the location of attempts on goal
- Identifying and assessing team strategies
- Analyzing Footballer’s Decisions in and Around the Penalty Box
- Bringing analytics to the Dolphins - Dennis Lock guest talk
2018
- Identifying a defence's vulnerabilities
- Passing network motifs
- Beyond the baseline
- Gazing into latent space
- Luke Bornn guest talk
2019
- Quantifying the impact of off-the-ball movement in football
- Tactical insight through team personas
- Optimal coaching: how the tools of data science can help
- Mike Fitzgerald Guest Talk
- Player2vec: A sequence-first approach to player and team styles
2020
- Long or Short? How the new short goal kick rule is impacting football (vimeo)
- Identifying and evaluating strategies to break down a low-block
- Learning to watch football Self-supervised representations for tracking data (write-up)
2021
- A physics based measurement of defensive contributions
- Identifying and evaluating the efficiency of each player during the pressing phase
- Identifying & evaluating strategies for successfully penetrating a high opposition press from short goal kicks
- Mo Bobat Guest Talk
- Making Offensive Play Predictable
- Volatility and calculation of risk-adjusted return in football scouting