Apriori-based diagnostical analysis of passings in the football game

Abstract

Early football game research with data mining method tends to include all the basic game actions in the statistics and come out with a descriptive result. Taking use of modified data structure and renewed algorithm, diagnosed results could be worked out and expressed by the tendency network. In order to get these results, all data were firstly cleaned according to modified data structure after data collection, afterwards, data were processed using a data mining program As a result, and offensive actions of Germany were analyzed. The mining results find not only general playing patterns but also important offensive combinations related to chance of goals.