Social network analysis of soccer map on the game field

Posted: December 4th, 2006 | 2 Comments »

Working on visualization of small groups coordination (playing a pervasive game), I ran across this network analysis and soccer webpage. I already blogged about it, but there seems to be new developement such as the mapping of the social network on the game field:


Why do I blog this? I am heading in another direction since my visualizations are less related to social network, and I removed the game field, I only kept the distance between players as an indicator. Anyway, what is interesting in this sort of soccer viz is the kind of question it allows to answer. In this case, it is mostly about Who was on the receiving end of the most passes? Who controlled Rapid’s play? Which players were involved in the most combination pass plays? Who played together with whom and who didn’t? and so on.

2 Comments on “Social network analysis of soccer map on the game field”

  1. 1 Jonathan Karpfen said at 6:29 pm on December 4th, 2006:

    Hey Nic,

    Congrats! This has got to be one of the best blogs I read on a regular basis. And I read a lot of blogs.

    Keep it up, please.

    JK

  2. 2 Mariusz Karbowski said at 4:06 pm on March 18th, 2009:

    Hi,
    I’m just already have done research in the field of soccer and social network analysis.
    In particular I focused on impact of a leader on the structure of passes.
    I have mapped three such a games where we can say about leader and I’m still working on the paper from this research.
    But If you are interested of some of my results I would more than happy to share it with you.

    Best
    MK

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