Shot Efficiency and Passing Profile bring the
total number of advanced statistics to eight, using AWS machine
learning and analytics to give fans deeper insights into the game
of football
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company
(NASDAQ: AMZN), and the German Bundesliga, Germany’s top national
football league, announced two new Bundesliga Match Facts powered
by AWS that will premier as graphics during broadcasts and in the
official Bundesliga app during the 2021–22 season. The first
advanced stat, Shot Efficiency, compares the actual number of goals
that a player or team has scored with how many goals the player or
team should have scored based on the quality of their chances. The
second, Passing Profile, provides deeper insights into the pass
quality of a player or an entire team. Both stats will debut during
Matchday 4 on September 11, 2021, featuring the faceoff between
German Champion FC Bayern München and the second-place team of the
previous season, RB Leipzig. For more information, videos, and
blogs about each stat, visit aws.amazon.com/sports/bundesliga.
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Passing Profile, one of the new
Bundesliga Match Facts powered by AWS for the 21-22 season.
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Bundesliga Match Facts help audiences better understand nuanced
aspects of the game of football, such as decision making on the
pitch or what goes into exceptional player performance. Bundesliga
generates the Match Facts by gathering and analyzing the match
feeds from live games in real time as they’re streamed into AWS. On
the backend, Bundesliga uses AWS capabilities in analytics, machine
learning, compute, storage, database, serverless, and media
services to process and store the vast amount of data that powers
these statistics, as well as to train, deploy, and scale the
machine learning models used to generate predictions. Fans see the
insights as graphics during broadcasts, with additional details in
the official Bundesliga app. The two new Match Facts will better
showcase the action on the field and give fans, coaches, players,
and commentators visual support for analyzing players’ and teams’
performance.
New Bundesliga Match Facts for the 2021–22 season powered by
AWS
- Shot Efficiency: Football fans love to revisit and break
down scoring opportunities to better celebrate or mourn key game
moments. This new stat helps fans determine which players or teams
best exploit their chances at scoring a goal. It compares the
number of goals that a player or team has actually scored with the
cumulative value from Expected Goals (xGoals)—an existing
Bundesliga Match Fact—which is the number of goals the player or
team should have scored based on the quality of their attempted
shots. The difference between these two values is the Shot
Efficiency number. If the value is negative (shown on TV by a red
arrow pointing down), the player or team has scored fewer goals
than would have been expected. If the value is positive (green
arrow up), the player or team exceeded the expected value. For the
first time, each player’s efficiency can be objectively assessed
based on the overall quality of shots and the number of goals
scored. For example, this advanced stat can compare two strikers
who scored the same number of goals after 10 matchdays to determine
which player is converting goals in challenging versus easy
situations. Commentators can also use the stat, for instance, to
analyze if players have a high number of goals because they are
well supported by their teammates or because they exploit openings
in the defense.
- Passing Profile: Fans often put themselves into a
player’s shoes and compare the choices they might have made in a
given situation to what the player actually did. This new stat
helps fans understand how players think and decide where to pass
the ball. It also provides deeper insights into the pass quality
and pass strength of players and teams, including which passing
decisions they prioritize, such as an offensive pass, passing the
ball back, or opening up play with a long ball. Before Passing
Profile, the effectiveness of player passing was measured primarily
by the number of passes that successfully reach a player’s target;
now, with Passing Profile, it is possible to assess the quality of
passes too, accounting for pass difficulty. For instance, by
looking at how many opponents press the recipient and passer, how
high the ball is in the air, and how many opponents were positioned
between the recipient and passer, the stat calculates the pass
difficulty rating. It also offers further insights into the passing
behavior of a player or team by identifying the number of long and
short passes, pass direction, and the type of passes a player
favors.
To develop these stats, machine learning models trained on
Amazon SageMaker (AWS’s service that enables data scientists and
developers to build, train, and deploy machine learning models
quickly) analyzed thousands of video hours of previous Bundesliga
seasons. In the case of Shot Efficiency, Bundesliga trained its
machine learning models on a dataset of more than 40,000 historical
shots on goal, which includes features derived from player
positional data, such as distance to goal, angle to goal, player
speed, number of defenders in the line of a shot, and goalkeeper
coverage. In the case of Passing Profile, Bundesliga analyzed video
of nearly 2 million passes and used that data to construct an
algorithm that computes a difficulty score for each pass at any
moment, evaluating characteristics such as distance to the
receiver, the number of defending players in between, and pressure
on a player. Once computed, Bundesliga aggregates difficulty scores
for each player and team to form a passing profile.
“Bundesliga Match Facts powered by AWS allow us to give fans
more insight into the game of football, broadcasters more
interesting stories to tell, and coaches and teams more data to
excel at their game. Last year, the reception for Bundesliga Match
Facts around the world was very positive, and we will continue to
raise the bar and innovate on these analytics using machine
learning to make them even better. The two new stats for this
season give fans a view into player efficiency that hasn’t been
achieved before, and we are still just at the beginning of our
relationship with AWS. I’m excited to see how technology will
continue to evolve the fan experience and the game,” said Andreas
Heyden, Executive Vice President of Digital Innovations for DFL
Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL) Group.
“Teams, leagues, broadcasters, and their partners from across
the sports world are using AWS to build data-driven solutions and
elevate the fan experience. We’re excited to continue our work with
Bundesliga to connect with their fans in a way they haven’t been
able to before this collaboration,” said Klaus Buerg, General
Manager for AWS Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Amazon Web
Services EMEA SARL. “Through the work we’ve accomplished with
Bundesliga in creating eight Bundesliga Match Facts in a short
period of time, we are giving fans a new way to appreciate player
speed, field positioning, goals, passing, and shot efficiency,
creating even more excitement in watching the game.”
These two new Match Facts join Speed Alert, Goal Probability,
xGoals, Most Pressed Player, Attacking Zones, and Average
Positions: Trends to bring the total number of insights available
for Bundesliga fans to eight. Information on all of these
statistics can be found at aws.amazon.com/sports/bundesliga/.
Football fans also can follow all of the latest Bundesliga action
on Bundesliga.com and via the official Facebook, Twitter, and
Instagram channels.
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About the Bundesliga
The Bundesliga is the top professional association football
league in Germany. The league was established in 1963 and comprises
18 teams which operate on a system of promotion and relegation with
the Bundesliga 2. The Bundesliga is broadcast on television in over
200 countries and is operated by the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga.
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