Route Identification in the National Football League

08/07/2019
by   Dani Chu, et al.
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Tracking data in the NFL is a sequence of spatial-temporal measurements that vary in length depending on the duration of the play. In this paper, we demonstrate how model-based curve clustering of observed player trajectories can be used to identify the routes run by eligible receivers on offensive passing plays. We use a Bernstein polynomial basis function to represent cluster centers, and the Expectation Maximization algorithm to learn the route labels for each of the 34,698 routes run on the 6,963 passing plays in the data set. We go on to suggest ideas for new potential receiver metrics that account for receiver deployment. The resulting route labels can also be paired with film to enable streamlined queries of game film.

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