• Analyzing passing networks in association football based on the difficulty, risk, and potential of passes 

      Wiig, Astrid Salte; Håland, Else Marie; Stålhane, Magnus; Hvattum, Lars Magnus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      This paper investigates the use of network analysis to identify key players on teams, and patterns of passing within teams, in association football. Networks are constructed based on passes made between players, and ...
    • Evaluating passing ability in association football 

      Håland, Else Marie; Wiig, Astrid Salte; Stålhane, Magnus; Hvattum, Lars Magnus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      In this paper, the passing ability of football players is determined by building three generalized additive mixed models that each explains a different aspect of a pass’ success: difficulty, risk and potential. The models ...
    • Evaluating the effectiveness of different network flow motifs in association football 

      Håland, Else Marie; Wiig, Astrid Salte; Hvattum, Lars Magnus; Stålhane, Magnus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      In association football, a network flow motif describes how distinct players from a team are involved in a passing sequence. The flow motif encodes whether the same players appear several times in a passing sequence, and ...