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Opta Vision - Generative AI Powered Football Insights: At Scale
 

Generative AI Powered Football Insights: At Scale

Opta Vision combines tracking and event data to deliver Opta’s richest football data ever. This merged dataset powers a range of new AI-enriched predictive models to deliver unparalleled performance insights, enabling you to conduct deeper analysis and captivate your audience.

Opta Vision – Providing the Complete Picture to Power Magical Analysis

Through a combination of computer vision and generative AI techniques, Opta Vision provides dynamic XY field locations for all 22 players in the match, uninterrupted, from the kick-off to the final whistle.

  • Utilise raw Opta Vision tracking data, via feeds, to analyse every player’s change of pace, third man run and change of direction in a game, all synchronised to Opta event data.
  • Deliver new insights into every player’s physical performance, in a single game and across the season, with aggregated fitness data.
  • Enhance your pre-match and post-match team analysis by highlighting changes to each team’s shape, in and out of possession, at key moments.
  • Highlight the impact of pressure applied on the ball, by the defensive team, on the match outcome.
  • Better quantify the on-ball decision-making of players, based on the type of passes they choose, and choose not, to make.
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The Four Stages In The Opta Vision Process

Event and Tracking Data Collection

Event & Tracking Data Collection

Consistent, accurate, event data is collected by skilled Opta analysts. Tracking data from match footage is collected using remote feeds.
Generative AI

Generative AI

A pioneering diffusion model produces continuous tracking data for all players out-of-shot, resulting in complete tracking data for the match.
Data Synchronisation

Data Synchronisation

We synchronise both event and tracking datasets in parallel with human-led QA.
AI Modelling

AI Modelling

AI is applied to enrich data and generate new data points and multiple predictive metrics.
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Playing Styles

Playing Styles breaks down each possession in a game into distinctive rules-based phases, allowing you to compare the different approaches of teams with and without the ball.

Off-Ball Runs

Opta Vision automatically detects and categorises each player’s attacking and defensive off-ball runs, unlocking new opportunities to analyse a player’s performance in the game.

Also Available Through Opta Vision

Raw Tracking Data

Raw Tracking Data

Data is available, via feeds, for every player on the pitch from dozens of competitions worldwide. Our computer vision-powered collection, generative AI techniques and massive Opta data engine ensures we deliver accurate and uninterrupted player trajectories for every second of a game.
Aggregated Fitness Data

Aggregated Fitness Data

Fitness data, captured at 25 frames per second and broken down by FIFA’s performance thresholds, provide new insights into the high-intensity performance of every player. As well as total distances covered and high sprints, Opta Vision also captures a player’s max speed and total high accelerations during a match.
Shape Analysis

Shape Analysis

Trained on millions of XY raw tracking data points, Opta Vision’s Shape Analysis model empowers you to look beyond traditional formations in your analysis by identifying each team’s true shape, in and out possession, at different points of a game.
Opta Vision - Generative AI Powered Football Insights: At Scale

Pass Predictions

Opta Vision’s Pass Predictions comprise three AI-enriched metrics, Expected Pass Completion (xP), Expected Receiver (xReceiver) and Expected Threat (xThreat), which help quantify a player’s passing ability and the wider impact of their passes.
Pressure Intensity

Pressure Intensity

Pressure Intensity identifies when defensive players approach the player in possession with the aim of winning the ball or limiting pass options. Accounting for the three closest opposition players to the ball, a pressure level is captured for every open play pass.
Line Breaking Passes

Line Breaking Passes

Using player location data, Opta Vision accurately captures all situations where a player’s pass successfully breaks an opposition line.

The Opta Vision Difference

Depth

Opta Vision’s complete and fully synchronised tracking and event dataset creates unique metrics, aligned across your team’s data, from the same source.
Scalable

Opta Vision’s scalable, computer vision-led collection process means that you can access detailed data from every game for dozens of competitions.
Video

Opta Vision captures data from video, rather than freeze frame technology, to ensure our outputs for every action are informed by the physical movement of all players.
Quality

Our QA process keeps a human-in-the-loop at all stages of data collection, to guarantee accuracy and high-quality insights.
SHAPE ANALYSIS

Dynamically Capturing Changes to a Team’s Shape

Shape Analysis is entirely data driven, powered by AI models which keeps track of all player movement.

This means that as well as identifying the initial team shapes, in and out of possession, Shape Analysis can also automatically detect each time a team’s shape changes as a game unfolds.

  • Highlight to your audience the most common shapes used by a team during the season.
  • Show the total time each player spends in different on-field positions within a shape, such as inverted full-backs moving into central midfield.
  • Provide greater context to shape changes made by a coach as a result of a player injury, suspension or other absence.
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PASS PREDICTIONS

Providing a Better Understanding of a Player’s Passing Tendencies 

Pass metrics, such as ‘passes completed’ and ‘pass completion %’, lack crucial context to properly analyse how a player uses the ball.

Opta Vision’s Pass Prediction metrics provide a much clearer picture of a player’s passing tendencies, offering powerful new insights into their decision-making based on who, and who they choose not, to pass to.

  • Identify the players who complete the most threatening passes, increasing their team’s chances of scoring.
  • Showcase the players in a league who attempt the most difficult passes all over the pitch.
  • Explain which players make themselves available to receive the ball from a teammate more than anyone else.
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Line Breaking Passes

Insight Into Passes Which Break Through the Opposition

Line Breaking Passes measure a player’s impact on their team’s offensive output by recording the success of their passes which break opposition lines.

Line Breaking Passes unlock a new level of detail in player contribution, allowing you to quantify:

  • Which players in a match complete the most line breaking passes.
  • Who on the team is most influential playing out from the back and breaking the opposition’s forward line.
  • The number of line breaking passes which lead to chances created.
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Pressure Intensity

Evaluating Performance in High Pressure Situations

Pressure Intensity evaluates the pressure generated by the defending team against the player possessing the ball. Opta Vision dynamically assigns a pressure level to the three closest defending players to the player in possession and determines a value that quantifies the pressure applied.

Pressure Intensity provides both team analysts and studio pundits with insights into:

  • The volume of pressure applied by defending teams and how their approach to closing down compares to other teams across a competition.
  • Measure the efficiency of a team’s pressure, by directly linking their pressure intensity to the total times they win the ball back as a result of high pressure.
  • The success rate of passes by an attacking player, based on the level of pressure they faced from opponents.
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BEYOND TRACKING: THE OPTA VISION WEBINAR SERIES

Learn more about Opta Vision in Action

In the eight-part Beyond Tracking webinar series, data experts discuss the application of AI-enriched Opta Vision data in the pro and media space. Topics include quantifying a player’s on-ball decision-making, applications of aggregated fitness data, shape analysis to support opposition scouting and more.

Watch the sessions on-demand

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