Jack Sears

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Jack Sears

Jack Sears

@jacksears_

MSc Computer Science BA Mathematical Science Soccer Analytics Enthusiast

Katılım Ekim 2023
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Jack Sears@jacksears_·
Thought I'd share this ridiculous pic of a 3D printed banana I got to see at @sunderlanduni
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Working through some of the Friends of Tracking Football Analytics tutorials by @EightyFivePoint. They are AWESOME! I plan on using pitch control in my thesis so it was great to start being able to mess around with it.
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Recently was in the UK helping my supervisor with some research. Major bucket list item checked off ✅ @ManCity
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Goal for the next few days: In depth read of "Pass Receiver and Outcome Prediction in Soccer Using Temporal Graph Networks", Rahimian et. al, 2023 - Understand the math behind their idea. - Take a look at the code and play around with it myself. - Brainstorm new ideas from it.
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Another Space Visualization technique done✅. This Voronoi diagram gives a cool visual of who controls what space. My favorite so far. #Voronoi
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Finished my first Delaunay Triangulation. Plot shows the pass by Caldentey to Olga Carmona that lead to the lone goal in the 2023 Women's World Cup Final. I plan to use these plots to further investigate the relationship between space and effective decision making.
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@BeGriffis Love this!! Can't wait to read the full article you plan on posting. Very interesting stuff and wonder how central defenders and fullbacks DAV varies and maybe a similar metric for crosses would shed even more light on fullbacks defensive value.
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Ben Griffis@BeGriffis·
Some of my long-time followers will know I'm enamored by trying to find new ways to analyze defense with data Been working on this for a while, so I'm excited to share some results! Defensive Action Value (DAV) It's a similar concept to xT—Let me explain a little...
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Shoutout @mckayjohns and his Statsbomb 360 Data tutorials. Just finished plotting the passing maps of Messi & Mbappe from the 2022 World Cup Final. Any guess on who's who? 🤣🤣
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Going to start getting more active on here... done all my courses and going to post my daily work from learning new code to thesis related stuff to track my progress.
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Don't like complaining but it's crazy that this match up between Canada and USA in the Gold cup right has not been postponed. The ball can't even move on the pitch, puddles everywhere... CONCACAF DO BETTER! #GoldCup #CanadavsUSA
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With a lot of research that quantifies player actions such as xG, player eval, and passing threat models, are there any models that directly quantify a defender's ability to defend? I have not found many paper's on the topic, but am also new in the soccer analytics world.
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Jan Van Haaren (@janvanhaaren.be on Bluesky)
With the growing interest in soccer analytics, it can be challenging to sift through all of the content that appeared in 2023. My latest blog post lists the research papers, blog posts, news articles, podcast episodes, and events that I liked the most! janvanhaaren.be/posts/soccer-a…
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Anyone know the best place or way to go about looking for summer internships in soccer/sports analytics?
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@daniel_hocevar @UofTSPAN Super interesting! I was thinking of a similar idea for tackles in soccer by calculating the expected goal values at a location of a tackle and removing the defending player. Possibly could give insight into quantifying defenders without just looking at their GA stats.
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Daniel Hocevar
Daniel Hocevar@daniel_hocevar·
For this year's #BigDataBowl, my team and I from @UofTSPAN evaluated tackling in football using counterfactual analysis and a new innovation we call Matchup Attention. Read more about our project in the thread below 🧵👇
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First year comsci grad student -> trying to find a thesis idea -> soccer analytics -> let's see what happens
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