OBPV (Off-Ball Positioning Value)

OBPV vs. OBSO

OBPV	OBSO

Requirements

• Python 3.12
• To install requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Data

• Laliga dataset was purchased and should not be shared.
• Instead, you can set e.g., Metrica data. See also the tutorial code: https://github.com/Friends-of-Tracking-Data-FoTD/LaurieOnTracking

Calculate OBPV

Run the following command:

python main.py --team <team> --event <event> --play_side <play_side> --method <method>

See main.py for descriptions of each command line argument.

Analyze Results

Run the following command:

python Result_Viz.py --event <event> --play_side <play_side> --method <method>

See main.py for descriptions of each command line argument.

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Reference

Yohei Ogawa, Rikuhei Umemoto, Keisuke Fujii, "Space evaluation at the starting point of soccer transitions", 12th Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics 2025(MLSA'25) co-located with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery (ECML-PKDD'25), 2025

@article{ogawa2025space,
  title={Space evaluation at the starting point of soccer transitions},
  author={Ogawa, Yohei and Umemoto, Rikuhei and Fujii, Keisuke},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.14711},
  year={2025}
}