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Evaluation of changes in space control due to passing behavior in elite soccer using Voronoi-cells

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A soccer player’s ability to make an “effective” pass in a play situation is considered one of the key skills characterizing successful performance in elite soccer.

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  1. Institute of Cognition and Team/Racket Sport Research, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Robert Rein, Dominik Raabe & Daniel Memmert

  2. Institute of Computer Science, FB 08, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    Jürgen Perl

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Rein, R., Raabe, D., Perl, J., Memmert, D. (2016). Evaluation of changes in space control due to passing behavior in elite soccer using Voronoi-cells. In: Chung, P., Soltoggio, A., Dawson, C., Meng, Q., Pain, M. (eds) Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Computer Science in Sports (ISCSS). Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 392. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24560-7_23

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