Student Competition

Also this year LINHAC organizes a BSc/MSc/PhD student competition where the task is to, given event data from SHL games, to produce interesting insights. Students can participate alone or in groups of up to 5 people.

How to register:
Send an e-mail to: LINHAC@groups.liu.se and cc to all group members. The e-mail should include the following information:

Group name (not needed if you apply alone)
Names, affiliations and e-mail addresses of all groups members
Proofs (e.g., student card, letter from university) of being student for all groups members
The following statement should be added: All group members confirm that they understand that the data set can only be used for this competition and cannot be distributed.

Submission Rules & Guidelines

Data set:

Event data produced by Sportlogiq and provided with permission of SHL, the Swedish Hockey League.

The data will be made available to registered participants.

When requested, we plan some Zoom meetings to answer questions regarding the data.

Note that the data can only be used for this competition and cannot be distributed.

Task:

Given the event data, generate findings/patterns related to sequences of events leading up to a particular outcome. You can choose the kind of outcome. For instance, find characteristics of sequences of events leading to, e.g., a goal or a successful zone entry.

Submit latest April 26, 2025:

A report (max 5 pages) including

introduction - describe the area/problem, motivate why is this interesting (focus on the outcome you have choosen), what kind of solutions have been used before
background - any background knowledge that is needed to read the report/undertand the talk (e.g. domain of the application)
algorithms - describe the algorithms that were used (why were these chosen?)
overview and discussion of your findings: analyze the results, compare with what was done before
summary of key points
future: ideas for how to improve? other things that could be done?
a link to code, e.g., in github.

Submit your report via hotcrp at https://linhac25student.hotcrp.com/. The reports should be written in English, following the Springer LNCS format, and be submitted in PDF. For details on the PDF submission format, see Springer's LNCS guidelines. (Please, do not use headers, footers, page numbers. These will be added by LINHAC in case the report is selected for publication.)

Prizes for winners and finalists