arXiv:2606. 09289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding tactical organisation of association football, hereafter referred to as football, requires identifying distinct match phases.
arXiv:2609.25569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soccer tactics are interactive: an attacking action changes the opponent's defensive problem, and the observed response depends on the multi-agent matc...
Soccer tactics are interactive: an attacking action changes the opponent's defensive problem, and the observed response depends on the multi-agent match state. We introduce SambaGraph, an action--reac...
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.
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.
The paper introduces the Hierarchical Possession-aware Graph Pointer Network (HPGPN) for selecting pass receivers in football analytics. HPGPN treats the task as a variable-size candidate prediction problem, modeling current player interactions, local event context, and possession-level temporal dynamics using a graph representation. Experiments on public football event and freeze-frame datasets show that HPGPN improves pass receiver selection performance, with ablation studies confirming the value of graph-based interaction modeling, fixed event context, and dual-branch dynamic possession-history modeling.
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.
arXiv:2606. 09327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Football event data constitute a rich spatiotemporal source for quantitative analysis of player actions in team sports.
arXiv:2608. 19646v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual understanding in sports has emerged as a hot topic in computer vision in recent years.
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.
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.
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.
Video understanding is usually benchmarked on curated, single-actor, or professionally filmed clips, and a strong score there is routinely read as evidence a model is robust enough for deployment. Ama...