Major League Soccer (MLS) owners are investing in data and performance tracking infrastructure that will allow the clubs to evolve rapidly.
The tracking data will enable club technical staffs with improved contextual analysis and a better understanding of individual performances. The data tracks the positioning and movement of players, which can help understand tactics better on new analytical levels. The Second Spectrum deal with data tracking allows assessment of team strategy based on the data-oriented tactical analysis.
Earlier evaluating decision making was very hard. Measuring anything is possible with data tracking. Analysts can now have a better understanding of a goal scoring chance based on a specific player’s decision.
Tracking data provides a new look at possession and passing. Analysts observed that possession is not independent of statistics that correlate to the final score. Tracking data gives clubs a contextual framework around each action, which was hard to identify earlier.
Analytics in soccer is relatively new, but it doesn’t supersede video analysis and traditional scouting. Most of the analytics is about putting the soccer concept already known in data-friendly terms. The goal of analytics is to measure the ability of the club to prevent counterattacks; describe at scale what happens on the field.
Soccer analytics and performance tracking are here to stay, and it has made soccer smarter than it has ever been.
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