dpleuler

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by dpleuler 2y ago
MLSE (Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd) Toronto, ON, Canada | Remote | Contract Role (3-12 Months) We're looking for a Computer Vision Engineer to help our Sport Performance Lab improve our various in-house Pose Estimation mod
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by dpleuler 5y ago
I'm the Director of Analytics at Toronto FC, and I'm always looking for people to collaborate on cool soccer projects with our awesome data. See [0] for some recent public work I've presented. ... [0] https://www.y
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by dpleuler 8y ago
Legally, there isn't much. Most of those sites are powered by Opta data, which is exclusively for-purchase. Statsbomb is a little different. They've started collecting their own data and are offering some free data from various Wo
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by dpleuler 8y ago
Defensive metrics are very difficult for a couple reasons. The first problem is the data. The soccer viewing public is largely familiar with event-level data, typically provided by (my previous employer) Opta. They've done a great job
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by dpleuler 8y ago
There isn't a ton of great public resources out there. For the most part, anyone who's writing smart analysis in the public space gets hired away to a club. It's exactly what happened in other sports. But, I would read "
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by dpleuler 8y ago
I stumbled into it largely by coincidence and luck. As you could imagine, there aren't many people that study computer science who were also relatively high level soccer players. I'm very fortunate to occupy the very narrow inters
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by dpleuler 8y ago
I'm the other analyst mentioned in the article, but my position is probably quite similar. I work with a team's coaching staff and management to help them make more data-driven decisions. This ranges from topics around oppositio
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by dpleuler 8y ago
Funny to stumble across this on Hacker News. I'm the analyst mentioned in the article. Happy to answer any questions about our weird little industry.
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by dpleuler 9y ago
I visited Acrosanti this past summer. They have a few rooms available on AirBnB which I fully suggest checking out.
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by dpleuler 13y ago
They might be the first NBA team to do it, but I know of at least one Major League Soccer team that does this.