Characterizing player's playing styles based on player vectors for each playing position in the Chinese Football Super League.

Characterizing playing style is important for football clubs on scouting, monitoring and match preparation. Previous studies considered a player's style as a combination of technical performances, failing to consider the spatial information. Therefore, this study aimed to characterize the playing st...

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Publicado en:Journal of Sports Sciences Vol. 40; no. 14; pp. 1629 - 1641
Autores principales: Li, Yuesen, Zong, Shouxin, Shen, Yanfei, Pu, Zhiqiang, Gómez, Miguel-Ángel, Cui, Yixiong
Formato: equations & formulas pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul2022
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          Li, Yuesen
          Zong, Shouxin
          Shen, Yanfei
          Pu, Zhiqiang
          Gómez, Miguel-Ángel
          Cui, Yixiong
        affil: School of Sports Engineering, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China
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          Sporting Events
          Soccer
          Athletes
          Task Performance and Analysis Evaluation
          Athletic Performance
          Chinese Persons
          Human
          Team Sports
          Movement
          Talent Identification, Sports
          Cluster Analysis
          Machine Learning
      ab: Characterizing playing style is important for football clubs on scouting, monitoring and match preparation. Previous studies considered a player's style as a combination of technical performances, failing to consider the spatial information. Therefore, this study aimed to characterize the playing styles of each playing position in the Chinese Football Super League (CSL) matches, integrating a recently adopted Player Vectors framework. Data of 960 matches from 2016–2019 CSL were used. Match ratings, and 10 types of match events with the corresponding coordinates for all the line-up players whose on-pitch time exceeded 45 minutes were extracted. Players were first clustered into eight positions. A player vector was constructed for each player in each match based on the Player Vectors using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF). Another NMF process was run on the player vectors to extract different types of playing styles. The resulting player vectors discovered 18 different playing styles in the CSL. Six performance indicators of each style were investigated to observe their contributions. In general, the playing styles of forwards and midfielders are in line with football performance evolution trends, while the styles of defenders should be reconsidered. Multifunctional playing styles were also found in high-rated CSL players.
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