soccermatics (version 0.9.0)

statsbomb: Sample StatsBomb event data containing the x,y-locations and identity of players involved in pass events, shot events, defensive actions, and more.

Description

Sample StatsBomb event data from the France vs. Argentina World Cup 2018 game on the 30th June 2018, made publicly available by StatsBomb here. Data contains 145 variables in total, including x,y-coordinates (location.x, location.y). StatsBomb pitch dimensions are 120m long and 80m wide, meaning lengthPitch should be specified as 120 and widthPitch as 80. Event data for all World Cup games (and other competitions) are accessible via the StatsBombR package available here.

Usage

data(statsbomb)

Format

A dataframe containing 12000 frames of x,y-coordinates and timestamps from 11 players.

References

StatsBomb Open Data

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(statsbomb)

# heatmap of France defensive pressure vs. Argentina (2018-06-30)
statsbomb %>% 
  filter(type.name == "Pressure" & team.name == "France") %>% 
  soccerHeatmap(x = "location.x", y = "location.y")

# }