Football scientia- an automated tool for professional soccer coaches

A soccer game can be seen as a confrontation between two teams of agents where each player, communicating with his teammates, try to interpret in the best way as possible the game situations, achieving its main goals. Today the most important factors in a soccer clubs life and in its coach success are the game results they achieve. They represent the success of the club and in many cases the coachs future. Because of that club coaches usually use automated tools to measure their teams performance all over a soccer competition. Based only in Cartesian coordinates and in a sequential time frame analysis, this research work presents an automatic tool capable to calculate many technical aspects in a soccer match. For the validation tool process, games of simulation 2d RoboCup international competition were used. The results achieved were quite satisfactory. In what concerns to the set of statistics collected more than 92% of the total events were detected and only for the shot event this number dropped to between 74% and 85%. The future work will be concerned in incorporating this project with a real time tracking system and increasing the number of technical aspects calculated by the system.