Sports Analytics related research projects at LiU
Projects
-  Ice hockey
-  Player performance in ice hockey 
  
- book chapter in Sports Data Analytics 2025: Data-driven player performance metrics in ice hockey
 - J Sports Analytics 2025: Goal-based Performance Metrics for Ice Hockey Accounting for Goal Importance (link to paper)
 - LINHAC 2023: Simple and Practical Goal Importance Metrics (link to paper and video)
 - Skövde Sports Analytics Conference 2022 (invited talk): Performance metrics for ice hockey
 - LINHAC 2022: Performance Metrics for Ice Hockey Accounting for Goal Importance (link to paper, video and data)
 - Vetenskapsdagen 2021: Which ex-LHC player played in a top defender pair in the NHL? (link to video)
 - MathSport 2021: Not all goals are equally important - a study for the NHL (archived; superseeded by LINHAC 2022 work)
 - MathSport 2019: Player impact measures for scoring in ice hockey (link to paper)
 
 -  Ranking of players
- MLSA 2020: Prediction of tiers in the ranking of ice hockey players (link to paper and video)
 
 -  Player roles and player styles in ice hockey
- LINHAC 2025: A Gaussian Mixture Model Approach for Characterizing Playing Styles of Ice Hockey Players
 - LINHAC 2024: Characterizing Playing Styles for Ice Hockey Players (link to paper) (with Färjestad BK)
 - MLSA 2023: Identifying Player Roles in Ice Hockey (link to paper)
 
 -  Team performance in ice hockey
- LINHAC 2023: The Importance of Special Teams in Ice Hockey (link to paper and video)
 - MLSA 2018: Player pairs valuation in ice hockey (link to paper)
 
 -  Visualization of ice hockey data (with Linköping Hockey Club (LHC))
- In the news: LHC's web page
 - In the news: hockeysverige.se
 
 -  An ontology for ice hockey
  
- ISWC 2019-poster: An Ontology for Ice Hockey (link to paper)
 
 -  Twitter Dynamics during the Stanley Cup Playoffs
- TMA 2018: A Second Screen Journey to the Cup: Twitter Dynamics during the Stanley Cup Playoffs (link to paper)
 
 
 -  Player performance in ice hockey 
  
 -  Football
      
-  Player trajectories in football 
- MLSA 2019: Predicting Player Trajectories in Shot Situations in Soccer (link to paper) (with Signality)
 
 -  Player performance in football
  
- ISACE 2024: Age of Peak Performance among Soccer Players in Sweden (link to paper) (with Playmaker AI)
 - MLSA 2018: Player valuation in European footbal (link to paper)
 
 
 -  Player trajectories in football 
 -  Basketball
      
-  Season outcome prediction
	  
- MLSA 2021: Predicting Season Outcomes for the NBA (link to paper)
 
 
 -  Season outcome prediction
	  
 -  Badminton   
-  An ontology for badminton
  
- FOIS 2024: BadmintONTO: A Badminton Domain Ontology (link to paper)
 
 
 -  An ontology for badminton
  
 -  Baseball
      
-  Careers of players
- Data Min Knowl Disc 2017: Regimes in baseball players' career data (link to paper)
 
 
 -  Careers of players
 -  System development for teams/companies
  
- Development of a data visualization system for ice hockey goalkeepers (BSc, LHC)
 - Development of a scouting system for ice hockey (BSc, LHC)
 - Development of a reporting system for sports statistics for ice hockey and floorbal (MSc, Sports Editing (Linköping))
 
 
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