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Spatial similarity index for scouting in football

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arxiv 2412.08303 v1 pith:DWSZ2S33 submitted 2024-12-11 stat.AP

Spatial similarity index for scouting in football

Virgilio G\'omez-Rubio , Jes\'us Lagos , Francisco Palm\'i-Perales This is my paper
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Finding players with similar profiles is an important problem in sports such as football. Scouting for new players requires a wealth of information about the available players so that similar profiles to that of a target player can be identified. However, information about the position of the players in the field is seldom used. For this reason, a novel approach based on spatial data analysis is introduced to produce a spatial similarity index that can help to identify similar players. The use of this new spatial similarity index is illustrated to identify similar players using spatial data from the Spanish competition "La Liga", season 2019-2020.

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