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     "title": "Through the Gaps: Uncovering Tactical Line-Breaking Passes with Clustering",
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     "title": "Time-Varying Home Field Advantage in Football: Learning from a Non-Stationary Causal Process",
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     "title": "When Should Team KPIs Be Absolute or Relative for Match-Outcome Prediction?",
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     "title": "Wisdom of the crowds forecasting the 2018 FIFA Men's World Cup",
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    {
     "file": "1710.02824.pdf",
     "title": "Beating the bookies with their own numbers - and how the online sports betting market is rigged",
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     "first_author": "Kaunitz",
     "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.02824v2"
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     "file": "2310.11459.pdf",
     "title": "Ratings of European and South American Football Leagues Based on Glicko-2 with Modifications",
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     "first_author": "Shelopugin",
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    {
     "file": "2608.04008.pdf",
     "title": "WorldCup Arena: Prospective, Leakage-Free Evaluation of Frontier LLMs on a Live Tournament",
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     "first_author": "Wang",
     "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.04008v1"
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    {
     "file": "2606.11120.pdf",
     "title": "Monte Carlo Pass Search: Using Trajectory Generation for 3D Counterfactual Pass Evaluation in Football",
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     "first_author": "Kang",
     "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.11120v1"
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    {
     "file": "2301.03462.pdf",
     "title": "Unleashing the Power of Shared Label Structures for Human Activity Recognition",
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     "first_author": "Zhang",
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    {
     "file": "2101.02104.pdf",
     "title": "A Probabilistic Model for Predicting Shot Success in Football",
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     "title": "A Bayesian Hidden Semi-Markov Model with Covariate-Dependent State Duration Parameters for High-Frequency Data from Wearable Devices",
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     "file": "2607.01722.pdf",
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     "first_author": "Nguyen",
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    {
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     "title": "Interpretable Low-Dimensional Modeling of Spatiotemporal Agent States for Decision Making in Football Tactics",
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     "title": "Characterizing Long-Range Dependencies in Knee Joint Contact Mechanics: A Comparison of Topology Diffusion, Global Routing, and Hybrid Graph Neural Networks",
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     "first_author": "Pan",
     "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.21020v1"
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     "first_author": "Robberechts",
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    {
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     "title": "Learning to Control Physically-simulated 3D Characters via Generating and Mimicking 2D Motions",
     "year": "2025",
     "first_author": "Li",
     "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.08500v1"
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    {
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     "first_author": "Scott",
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    {
     "file": "2604.01990.pdf",
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     "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.01990v1"
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    {
     "file": "2311.03745.pdf",
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     "first_author": "Li",
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    {
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    {
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     "title": "Pixels or Positions? Benchmarking Modalities in Group Activity Recognition",
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    {
     "file": "2503.11726.pdf",
     "title": "SPECTra: Scalable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Permutation-Free Networks",
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     "first_author": "Hyunwoo Park",
     "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.11726v1"
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    {
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     "title": "Unveiling Hidden Pivotal Players with GoalNet: A GNN-Based Soccer Player Evaluation System",
     "year": 2025,
     "first_author": "Jacky Hao Jiang",
     "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.09737v1"
    },
    {
     "file": "2411.17450.pdf",
     "title": "A Graph Neural Network deep-dive into successful counterattacks",
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     "first_author": "Joris Bekkers",
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    {
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     "title": "Inferring Player Location in Sports Matches: Multi-Agent Spatial Imputation from Limited Observations",
     "year": 2023,
     "first_author": "Gregory Everett",
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    {
     "file": "2204.11142.pdf",
     "title": "Graph Neural Network based Agent in Google Research Football",
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     "first_author": "Yizhan Niu",
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    {
     "file": "2505.01902.pdf",
     "title": "From Players to Champions: A Generalizable Machine Learning Approach for Match Outcome Prediction with Insights from the FIFA World Cup",
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     "first_author": "Al-Bustami",
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    {
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     "year": "2026",
     "first_author": "Pan",
     "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.21020v1"
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    {
     "file": "2512.10355.pdf",
     "title": "Better Prevent than Tackle: Valuing Defense in Soccer Based on Graph Neural Networks",
     "year": "2025",
     "first_author": "Kim",
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    {
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     "title": "Field Converter: Geometry-Initialized Temporal Residual Refinement for World-Grounded Player Pose Estimation from Soccer Broadcasts",
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     "first_author": "Simon Khan",
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    {
     "file": "2507.19469.pdf",
     "title": "Efficient Lines Detection for Robot Soccer",
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     "first_author": "Jo\u00e3o G. Melo",
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    {
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     "first_author": "Shaofeng Yin",
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    {
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     "title": "AutoSoccerPose: Automated 3D posture Analysis of Soccer Shot Movements",
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     "first_author": "Calvin Yeung",
     "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.12070v1"
    },
    {
     "file": "2410.07401.pdf",
     "title": "Enhancing Soccer Camera Calibration Through Keypoint Exploitation",
     "year": 2024,
     "first_author": "Nikolay S. Falaleev",
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    {
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     "title": "Foul prediction with estimated poses from soccer broadcast video",
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     "first_author": "Jiale Fang",
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     "title": "Learning to Control Physically-simulated 3D Characters via Generating and Mimicking 2D Motions",
     "year": "2025",
     "first_author": "Li",
     "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.08500v1"
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     "file": "2004.07209.pdf",
     "title": "Using Player's Body-Orientation to Model Pass Feasibility in Soccer",
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     "first_author": "Arbu\u00e9s-Sang\u00fcesa",
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    {
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     "title": "Video-based Sequential Bayesian Homography Estimation for Soccer Field Registration",
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     "file": "2310.14469.pdf",
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     "first_author": "Vid Stropnik",
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    },
    {
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     "title": "Uncovering Soccer Teams Passing Strategies Using Implication Rules",
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    },
    {
     "file": "1707.05481.pdf",
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     "file": "1404.2885.pdf",
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     "first_author": "Han",
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     "title": "A model-based restricted shapley value to measure the players' contribution to shot actions in football",
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     "year": 2026,
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    {
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     "title": "Engineering Features to Improve Pass Prediction in Soccer Simulation 2D Games",
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    {
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    {
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     "title": "Predicting soccer matches with complex networks and machine learning",
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     "first_author": "Eduardo Alves Baratela",
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    {
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     "first_author": "Han",
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     "title": "From Broadcast to Minimap: Achieving State-of-the-Art SoccerNet Game State Reconstruction",
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     "first_author": "Vladimir Golovkin",
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    {
     "file": "2512.08467.pdf",
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     "first_author": "Chamath Ranasinghe",
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    {
     "file": "2209.13154.pdf",
     "title": "Observation Centric and Central Distance Recovery on Sports Player Tracking",
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     "first_author": "Hsiang-Wei Huang",
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    },
    {
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     "year": "2024",
     "first_author": "Mansourian",
     "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.09942v1"
    },
    {
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     "first_author": "Bhosale",
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    {
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     "title": "Hand Held Multi-Object Tracking Dataset in American Football",
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     "first_author": "Otsubo",
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     "first_author": "Sarosij Bose",
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    {
     "file": "2512.06571.pdf",
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     "first_author": "Xu",
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     "title": "FootGPT : A Large Language Model Development Experiment on a Minimal Setting",
     "year": "2023",
     "first_author": "Unlu",
     "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.08610v1"
    },
    {
     "file": "2104.09333.pdf",
     "title": "Camera Calibration and Player Localization in SoccerNet-v2 and Investigation of their Representations for Action Spotting",
     "year": "2021",
     "first_author": "Cioppa",
     "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.09333v1"
    },
    {
     "file": "1910.10232.pdf",
     "title": "Bottom-Up Meta-Policy Search",
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     "first_author": "Melo",
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