arXiv:2602. 12080v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite recent advances in AI, event data collection in soccer still relies heavily on labor-intensive manual annotation.
By Hyunsung Kim, Kunhee Lee, Sangwoo Seo, Sang-Ki Ko, Jinsung Yoon, Chanyoung Park
arXiv:2607. 26061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-match tactical decision-making in professional football relies heavily on subjective expert analysis and identity-based scouting systems that cannot generalize to unseen teams.
By Mouad Zemzoumi, Amine Abouaomar
arXiv:2603. 15212v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evaluating football player transfers is challenging because player actions depend strongly on tactical systems, teammates, and match context.
By Miru Hong, Minho Lee, Geonhee Jo, Hyeokje Cho, Hyunsung Kim, Pascal Bauer, Sang-Ki Ko
arXiv:2606. 09327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Football event data constitute a rich spatiotemporal source for quantitative analysis of player actions in team sports.
By Weiran Yang, Daniel Memmert, Maximilian Klemp-Weins
arXiv:2607. 14616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision--language models have become increasingly capable of interpreting visual scenes, but it remains unclear whether they can use information to make strategically effective decisions.
By Jasin Cekinmez, Addison J. Wu, Haotian Xia, Akshaya Bharadhwaj, Anay Putty, Anirudh Ravishankar, Jaewoong Lee, Jinglin Xiao, Kyumin Andrew Shim, Mishika Ahuja, Nisarga Patil, Leo Liu, Zhuohan Liu, Weining Shen
arXiv:2606. 30090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient tactical knowledge extraction and analysis in real-time strategy (RTS) games micromanagement are constrained by the high-dimensional coupled state-action sequential data and the black-box decision-making process.
By Chunhui Bai, Changhe Li, Yuqiang Li, Lei Liu, Shoufei Han
arXiv:2607. 11548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial football metrics such as pitch control assume access to the positions of all 22 players, yet the most widely available source of positional data -- the broadcast main camera -- shows only 10-16 of them at any moment.
By Seongjin Choi
arXiv:2606. 06353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning is increasingly employed for the evaluation of football tactics.
By Sean Groom, Michael Groom, Francisco Belo, Axl Rice, Liam Anderson, Victor-Alexandru Darvariu, Shuo Wang
arXiv:2607. 21267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Comprehensive basketball video understanding requires resolving not only what event occurs, but also who is responsible and when the key evidence appears.
By Yu Zhang, Jiayuan Rao, Haoning Wu, Weidi Xie
Football score forecasting combines a strong statistical core with a difficult contextual edge. Dynamic Poisson-family models estimate team strength, expected goals, and coherent score probabilities, but do not directly understand roles, tactical matchups, motivation, or how a first goal changes behaviour.
arXiv:2608. 05030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Football score forecasting combines a strong statistical core with a difficult contextual edge.
By Shaopeng Liang
arXiv:2608. 12926v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional player evaluation in professional handball relies on basic box-score metrics or heuristic indices, which fail to credit the multi-player build-up chain.
By Julius Broermann, Oliver M\"uller, Michael D\"oring, Jochen Baumeister