’Soccer is still a chaotic game’

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Sport informatics professor Daniel Link on data analysis at the European Championship

Daniel Link
Daniel Link
Prof. Daniel Link uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze sports games. In this interview, he talks about how data is collected and processed in soccer, about a soccer hackathon at TUM and about how data analyses can help to improve the game.

At the 2024 European Football Championship, a huge amount of information will be collected during the individual matches. How is this data recorded?

There are three different data sources. Firstly, match data such as passes, shots on goal or tackles are recorded manually by data loggers. ...
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