TACTICAL ANALYSIS

Tactical analysis in team sports using numerical data, through a mathematical model based on
the location of the players and the ball. he main procedure in the research flow was to establish a
mathematical offence/defence model based on tactical concepts in football, which was applied
for the location of players, which, in turn, was quantified from video images in order to categorise
a team’s tactical performance. The data revealed that football tactical analysis can be
successfully performed using OUR model, which might possibly enable automatic tactical
analysis of football games without a match analyst.

Development

Player search

When scouting for players in Football Manager it’s easy to get blinded by
potential star ratings and scout recommendation rating. Today, I like to focus the
attention on how you can use statistics and data analytics to scout for players in
Football Manager.

Here I’ll showcase a whole range of different scouting methods of mine, using
search filters and views to scout for players who have great on-pitch
performances! This means emphasizing stats like shots on target, expected
goals (xG) metrics, key passes, chances created, interceptions or key tackles to
find both future superstars and potential star players that fit your tactics and
playing style
Information sorting

We would expect (and encourage) football clubs to increasingly rely on objective measures such as
Expected Goals when it comes to gauging teams’ performances and evaluating how well or badly
coaches are doing. It happens all too often that coaches are sacked after poor results despite these
not being caused by poor team performance, but rather by bad luck.