Sport Informatics and Analytics/Pattern Recognition/Theme Activities

Theme activities

Reading about pattern recognition

Activity

Take some time to explore the range of resources for this theme. You might like to start with a summary of five papers on pattern recognition.

Analysing AFL GPS data

Activity

Background An Australian Rules football team shared with us a whole game GPS data set from a game played in the 2014 season.

The data can be found here.

The team that provided the data won the game and scored the same number of points each of the four quarters of the game.

The scores by quarter in the game were:

• 33 v 22 (Q1)
• 33 v 12 (Q2)
• 33 v 26 (Q3)
• 33 v 37 (Q4)

Questions

1. Do the data available help map player effort in relation this scoring pattern?
2. What inferences can you draw from these data?