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Bundesliga Match Fact Pressure Handling: Evaluating players’ performances in high-pressure situations on AWS

Pressing or pressure in football is a process in which a team seeks to apply stress to the opponent player who possesses the ball. A team applies pressure to limit the time an opposition player has left to make a decision, reduce passing options, and ultimately attempt to turn over ball possession. Although nearly all …

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Bundesliga Match Fact Win Probability: Quantifying the effect of in-game events on winning chances using machine learning on AWS

Ten years from now, the technological fitness of clubs will be a key contributor towards their success. Today we’re already witnessing the potential of technology to revolutionize the understanding of football. xGoals quantifies and allows comparison of goal scoring potential of any shooting situation, while xThreat and EPV models predict the value of any in-game …

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Unified data preparation, model training, and deployment with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler and Amazon SageMaker Autopilot – Part 2

Depending on the quality and complexity of data, data scientists spend between 45–80% of their time on data preparation tasks. This implies that data preparation and cleansing take valuable time away from real data science work. After a machine learning (ML) model is trained with prepared data and readied for deployment, data scientists must often …