Clustering Analysis in Football
Authors
Le Maux, Alex
Issue Date
2024-05
Degree
HDip in Data Analytics
Publisher
Dublin Business School
Rights holder
Rights
Abstract
Nowadays data is everywhere in sport, there are sports like basketball in the US that are famous to be focus on individual statistics. Football has some tendencies to go in the same direction. Statistics are often used to highlight individual performances more than the collective behaviour of a team.
Smith, R. (2022) wrote about the history of how data arrive in football and write this sentence:
“Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about how you win”.
With the number of data extracted from each game, there is a possibility to exploit these data in a better way to find patterns regarding the collective behaviour of the teams.