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"- Classifying Central Midfielders - Marek Kwiatkowski - Can we measure how much more teams leave themselves open at the back when chasing down a lead, and which teams tend to 'shell' when they go a goal up? - Ben Woolcock - Similarity Scores using Opta data - Jonathan Gruhl - Quantitative analysis of football players' pre- and post-pass movements - Laszlo Gyarmati, Hawoon Kwak and Pablo Rodriguez - Developing a new method to support football teams - Pedro Marques, Daniel Baiao and Richard Duarte - Please stop applauding diagonal cross-field passes - Colm McMullan - Assessing player performance and tactics using a multi-agent football simulation engine - Martin Eastwood, Daniel Edwards and David Hastie - If you don't buy a ticket, can you still win the raffle? - Oliver Page - Determine the attacking option with the greatest Expected Value for a player receiving a pass 25-35 yards from goal - Colin Trainor "

"There is less simulation inside the danger zone because players who have a real chance of scoring a goal are much less likely to drop to the ground and give up on the play. It's wide in the box where the incentives get out of whack and diving makes more sense. If you have less than a five percent chance of scoring a goal, why not roll the dice on fooling the referee into blowing a penalty?"

"The team, which notched a woeful 2-win, 14-loss season in 2014, has signed on with Eon Sports VR, a company that uses virtual reality practice simulations to supplement training. Virtual reality is catching on in the National Football League (NFL), as teams including the Dallas Cowboys, San Francisco 49ers and Minnesota Vikings start to use software made by Eon peer StriVR Labs."

"In that role, Moore is tasked with assigning more than 40 numerical grades to each of the NFL's roughly 2,600 players,2 evaluating them in categories ranging from passing accuracy to tackling ability. Moore's process has largely been a black box, and yet it shapes how more than 5 million gamers simulate pro football - particularly because there's no official alternative to his numbers. A decade after signing a controversial exclusivity deal with the league and the players union, Madden3 is still the only licensed NFL game in town."

"The agreement - set to be announced on Monday - will see Sports Interactive's extensive worldwide database of player information incorporated into Prozone's RECRUITER tool - already used by top clubs around the world to facilitate player recruitment and analysis. The database, which forms the basis of the record-breaking management simulation game, contains 250 pieces of biographical, positional and contractual information on each of over 550,000 players, managers and staff around the globe. Amassed by 1300 scouts positioned across six continents, it will be integrated with Prozone's video and performance analysis software to help clubs find potential signings."

"rtains jeux vidéo offrent d'autres possibilités via l'ajout de mod. Très appréciés des joueurs, ils peuvent avoir de très nombreux objectifs, y compris de détourner le jeu de son but original. C'est le cas de "FIFA World Cup Host Resolution" pour Sid Meier's Civilization 5 qui vous proposera de préparer la prochaine Coupe du Monde de football. Ce mod, apparu sur Steam il y a peu, est l'œuvre de l'artiste Steph Caskenette, c'est, entre autre, une dénonciation satirique de toute l'agitation qui règne avant chaque coupe du monde - scandales, argent, controverses, etc -. C'est bien pour  montrer l'envers du décor de la FIFA que ce mod a été créé. Il vous faudra donc bâtir toutes les infrastructures nécessaires pour accueillir ce mondial. Mais rassurez-vous, vous pourrez puiser dans un très vaste choix de travailleurs migrants, qui coûtent deux fois moins qu'un employé « normal », s'épuisent à la tache, ne se nourrissent pas, ne boivent pas, et ne risquent pas d'aller voir ailleurs puisque vous détenez leur passeport et leur argent. C'est à la sueur de leur front, et sur leurs cadavres que vous érigerez les gigantesques infrastructures à la gloire de votre pays et du football. Le mod requiert l'extension « Brave New World » pour fonctioner."

"The LegShocker is -although usefull in many of the game industry's agreeable products- most suitably designed for EA Sport's FIFA 2002 and FIFA World Cup 2002. The players, before putting on their football footwear, each slip into a hand-sewen shinpad and step onto a piece of professional lawn. With the controllers in their hands they face the first opponent between them and the screen. The ball. It's used to shoot. Yes, you know this. But you can also tackle others by kicking it… A human opponent wearing the LegShocker will probably not like it…."