Game Plan: What AI can do for Football, and What Football can do for AI

• Main Authors: Tuyls, Karl, Omidshafiei, Shayegan, Muller, Paul, Wang, Zhe, Connor, Jerome, Hennes, Daniel, Graham, Ian, Spearman, William, Waskett, Tim, Steele, Dafydd, Luc, Pauline, Recasens, Adria, Galashov, Alexandre, Thornton, Gregory, Elie, Romuald, Sprechmann, Pablo, Moreno, Pol, Cao, Kris, Garnelo, Marta, Dutta, Praneet, Valko, Michal, Heess, Nicolas, Bridgland, Alex, Perolat, Julien, De Vylder, Bart, Eslami, Ali, Rowland, Mark, Jaegle, Andrew, Munos, Remi, Back, Trevor, Ahamed, Razia, Bouton, Simon, Beauguerlange, Nathalie, Broshear, Jackson, Graepel, Thore, Hassabis, Demis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 18.11.2020
• Subjects: Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science - Computer Science and Game Theory; Computer Science - Multiagent Systems

The rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning has opened unprecedented analytics possibilities in various team and individual sports, including baseball, basketball, and tennis. More recently, AI techniques have been applied to football, due to a huge increase in data colle...