8. Expected possession value

8.1 Using pitch control to evaluate players

Laurie Shaw describes how you can value player actions by combining an expected threat style model with a pitch control to investigate the best passing options available to the player on the ball at any moment of a game. 

Code for this tutorial can be found here (see Tutorial 4): https://github.com/Friends-of-Trackin... Links to an external site. Data used in this tutorial can be found here: https://github.com/metrica-sports/sam... Links to an external site. An interactive visualisation of EPV can be found here: https://chart-studio.plotly.com/~laur... Links to an external site.

8.2 Expected Possession Value

In this video by David on Tuesday at 7pm will go through different approaches to expected possession value.

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8.3 Neural networks for Expected Possession Value

Javier Fernandez (head of sports analytics at Barcelona) will give a seminar on Thursday 14:15-15:00 on using neural network models for calculating expected possession value.

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