Data Analytics in Football provides students, researchers and coaches with a firm grounding in the principles of modern performance analysis. It offers an insight into the use of positional data, exploring how it can be collected, modelled, analysed and interpreted. Introducing cutting-edge methods, the book challenges long-held assumptions and encourages a new way of thinking about football analysis. The book seeks to define the role of positional data in football match analysis by exploring topics such as: • What is positional data analysis and how did it emerge from conventional match analysis? • How can positional data be collected, and which technologies can be used? • What Key Performance Indicators based on positional data should be used? • How can traditional match analysis be complemented by using positional data and advanced KPIs? • How can these new methods evolve in the future? Based on data collected from active leagues and fully revised for the new second edition, the text now also examines data collection in relation to other sports, how a data-driven approach in decision-making is achieved by professional teams and how big is the potential of the new methods of data collection and how could they evolve in the future. Accessibly written, packed full of examples from elite football and supplemented with expert interviews, Data Analytics in Football is a thought- provoking, rigorously evidence-based guide to the use of data analytics in football performance analysis. As such, it is a vital resource for any student, researcher or coach interested in performance analysis and skill acquisition, or anyone interested in football more generally.

Data Analytics in Football provides students, researchers and coaches with a firm grounding in the principles of modern performance analysis. It offers an insight into the use of positional data, exploring how it can be collected, modelled, analysed and interpreted. Introducing cutting-edge methods, the book challenges long-held assumptions and encourages a new way of thinking about football analysis. The book seeks to define the role of positional data in football match analysis by exploring topics such as: • What is positional data analysis and how did it emerge from conventional match analysis? • How can positional data be collected, and which technologies can be used? • What Key Performance Indicators based on positional data should be used? • How can traditional match analysis be complemented by using positional data and advanced KPIs? • How can these new methods evolve in the future? Based on data collected from active leagues and fully revised for the new second edition, the text now also examines data collection in relation to other sports, how a data-driven approach in decision-making is achieved by professional teams and how big is the potential of the new methods of data collection and how could they evolve in the future. Accessibly written, packed full of examples from elite football and supplemented with expert interviews, Data Analytics in Football is a thought- provoking, rigorously evidence-based guide to the use of data analytics in football performance analysis. As such, it is a vital resource for any student, researcher or coach interested in performance analysis and skill acquisition, or anyone interested in football more generally.

Dieses Sachbuch hilft Ihnen dabei, die moderne Spielanalyse von Big Data im Profisport besser zu verstehen, um in Sekundenschnelle mithilfe von Positionsdaten relevante Informationen aus den Spielen herauszulesen. Anhand von zahlreichen Abbildungen und Videobeispielen erklaren die Autoren die spannenden Ergebnisse, die den Fussball auf der Basis der Spielanalyse 4.0 verandert haben. Im Zentrum des Buchs stehen die Erkenntnisse, die uns die moderne Spielanalyse heute liefert. Anhand von zahlreichen Beispielen aus der Fussball-Bundesliga, anderen Ligen des europaischen Spitzensports und der Champions League wird anschaulich gezeigt, wie taktische Aspekte modelliert, einzelne Spiele oder ganze Saisons per Mausklick analysiert und anschliessend interpretiert werden koennen. Die zweite Auflage des Buchs ist aktualisiert, erganzt, unterhaltsam, leicht lesbar und richtet sich sowohl an Fussball- wie alle Sportspielfans, die sich fur neue Entwicklungen und Trends in der Analyse von Sportspielen interessieren. Beispielsweise kommen folgende Experten zu Wort: - Ralf Rangnick (RB Leipzig), - Urs Siegenthaler (Deutsche Nationalmannschaft), - Dr. Holger Broich (FC Bayern Munchen), - Ernst Tanner (Philadelphia Union), - Lars OD Christensen (FC Midtjylland), - Dr. Hendrik Weber (Deutsche Fussball Liga), - Johannes Holzmuller (FIFA). Zu den Autoren Univ.-Prof. Dr. Daniel Memmert ist geschaftsfuhrender Institutsleiter und Professor am Institut fur Trainingswissenschaft und Sportinformatik (ITS) an der Deutschen Sporthochschule Koeln (DSHS). Das Institut kooperiert mit verschiedenen Fussball-Bundesligisten, europaischen und amerikanischen Top-Mannschaften und der Deutschen Fussball-Nationalmannschaft. Seit 2015 organisiert es den ersten Masterstudiengang im Bereich Spielanalyse. Dominik Raabe ist auch am ITS an der DSHS tatig und u.a. mit der Leitung eines von der DFL gefoerderten Projekts zum Thema "Positionsdatenanalyse im Profifussball" betraut.