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Around the year 2000, it became possible to track players’ positions in game sports during match. This was a revolution in performance analysis (PA) because from then on, we had a totally new family of data at our regular disposal. Before that, in the very beginnings of PA as scientific discipline, it was only in principle possible to assess positions of players on the pitch. This chapter starts with an introduction in the different technologies nowadays in use for position detection in game sports, GPS-, radar-, and video-based tracking . The focus here is only on technical details of raw data acquisition and signal processing that are relevant to practical decisions in performance analysis. Intricate details from an engineering perspective are left apart. Nevertheless, much like in action detection, caring for reliability and validity of position detection is a relevant issue for performance analysis as well and treated in a second section. The focus here is on specific problems, for example, with appropriate gold standards or compatibility of position data obtained from different systems/technologies.

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Lames, M. (2023). Position Detection. In: Performance Analysis in Game Sports: Concepts and Methods. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07250-5_3

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