Our group

The group on Sports Analytics was started at the end of 2017. We are researchers at Linköping University with a common interest in various aspects of Sports Analytics.

Our field

Sports analytics deals with using data related to sports events to obtain insights about the sport and its surroundings. In our group we interpret this broadly. The insights can relate to such things as player and team performance, strategies, training, injuries, and rules of the game.

Learning about Sports Analytics

• Since 2019 we have held a yearly course in Sports Analytics (VT2).
• NEWS: During autumn 2025 we will start a sports analytics academy where students at Linköping University can work on projects and participate in competitions. More information later.

In the news

• Articles about Linköping Hockey Analytics Conference :
  • 2025-06-04: Det våras för hockeynörden - så värvas framtidens LHC-spelare (Corren)
  • 2024-08-02: Hockeylabbet - sommarspecial 2: Henric Larsson and Simon Brändström talk with Erik Wilderoth at LINHAC 2024.
  • 2024-07-30: Interview with Mikael Verblom about LINHAC 2024. (LHC)
  • 2024-07-07: Hockeylabbet - sommarspecial 1: Henric Larsson and Simon Brändström talk with Petter Carnbro at LINHAC 2024.
  • 2024-06-11: ROZHOVOR: TYGRI ANALYTIK JAN MORKES O HOKEJOVE KONFERENCI VE SVEDSKU (BILI TYGRI LIBEREC)
  • Issue (2023 - Nr 4) of the Swedish sports science magazine "Idrott och Kunskap" features an article on hockey analytics based on interviews at LINHAC 2023.
  • 2023-06-21: "Där har svenska mÃ¥lvaktstränare generellt varit l˚ngt fram i utvecklingen" (Svenska Ishockeyförbundet)
  • 2023-06-13: Så ska datan göra ishockeyn bättre: "Allt registreras" (Corren)
  • 2023-06-07: Perfekt exempel på ett bra samarbete mellan universitet och idrottslag (LiU)
  • 2023-06-05: LHC med och anordnar världens största konferens om hockey analytics (LHC)
  • 2023-05-15: Världens största konferens om hockey analytics på LiU (LiU)
  • 2023-05-15: The world's largest conference on ice hockey analytics at LiU (LiU)
  • 2022-06-27: Cheriton researchers develop new passing models with NHL tracking data, win best research paper award at LINHAC 2022 (University of Waterloo)
  • 2022-06-03: UNIKT HOCKEYKONVENT I LINKÖPING (LHC)
• Issue 2002/6 of the Swedish sports science magazine "Idrott och Kunskap" features an article on sports analytics based on interviews with Patrick Lambrix (ice hockey), Anton Kalén (golf), David Sumpter (football) and Daniel Svensson (history).
• Universitetsläraren published a short article (in Swedish) on our sports analytics work based on an interview with Patrick Lambrix.
• LiU magasin published an article (in Swedish) on our sports analytics work based on an interview with Patrick Lambrix and Niklas Carlsson. Swedish and English versions were published on the LiU web.
• Articles about our project on visualization of ice hockey data in cooperation with Linköping Hockey Club (LHC) were posted on LHC's web page and hockeysverige.se.

Master/Bachelor thesis subjects

See thesis proposals.

Contact: Patrick Lambrix.