Passing to Win: Using Characteristics of Passing Information for Match Winner Prediction

Taihu Li, Taihu Li, Jeewoo Yoon, Jeewoo Yoon, Daejin Choi, Jinyoung Han, Jinyoung Han

2021

Abstract

Predictingthe football match results has received great attention both in sports industry and academic fields. Many researchers have studied on predicting the match outcome using the simple features such as the number of shots and passes. However, little attention has been paid to using pass interaction features, which can represent how players in a match interact to each other. To this end, we propose a win-lose prediction model that predicts a match result using the pass interaction and other features, achieving high accuracy of 79.5%. By conducting an ablation study, we find that the proposed interaction features play an important role in accurately predicting match results. We believe our work can provide important insights both for industry and academic researchers who want to understand the characteristics of winning teams.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Li T., Yoon J., Choi D. and Han J. (2021). Passing to Win: Using Characteristics of Passing Information for Match Winner Prediction. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support - Volume 1: icSPORTS, ISBN 978-989-758-539-5, pages 54-60. DOI: 10.5220/0010659000003059

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsports21,
author={Taihu Li and Jeewoo Yoon and Daejin Choi and Jinyoung Han},
title={Passing to Win: Using Characteristics of Passing Information for Match Winner Prediction},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support - Volume 1: icSPORTS,},
year={2021},
pages={54-60},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010659000003059},
isbn={978-989-758-539-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support - Volume 1: icSPORTS,
TI - Passing to Win: Using Characteristics of Passing Information for Match Winner Prediction
SN - 978-989-758-539-5
AU - Li T.
AU - Yoon J.
AU - Choi D.
AU - Han J.
PY - 2021
SP - 54
EP - 60
DO - 10.5220/0010659000003059