The harsh rule of the goals: Data-driven performance indicators for football teams

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, DSAA 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Cintia, Paolo ^a   Giannotti, Fosca ^b   Pappalardo, Luca ^a   Pedreschi, Dino ^a   Malvaldi, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BENCHMARKING; SPORTS;

AUTOMATED SENSING; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; EFFICIENCY MEASURE; HIDDEN PATTERNS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; STRONG CORRELATION; TEAM PERFORMANCE;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84962915609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSAA.2015.7344823     Document Type: Conference Paper

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