Opta Vision

Disruptive Data for Revolutionary Coverage

Go beyond the box score with novel analytics like Expected Threat.
Analyse play at a grander level by comparing attacking and defending team shapes with Shape Analysis.
Leverage finer player performance metrics like Line Breaking Passes to better quantify a player’s impact and contribution.
Give fans original perspectives on their favourite players, like how they create defensive pressure and overcome it with Pressure Intensity.
Add new, enriched dimensions to animations and give fans the underlying story of the big plays and explosive goals.

01:49 An Introduction to Opta Vision

29:46 #BeyondTracking – Bradford Griffiths & David Wall

What is Opta Vision? (01:49)

#BeyondTracking (29:46)

The Four Stages In The Opta Vision Process

Tracking Data Collection

Match footage is collected from either in-stadia cameras or remote feeds.

Event Data Collection

Highly skilled analysts use bespoke software to collect consistent, accurate event data.

Data Synchronisation

Synchronisation of event and tracking data takes place in parallel with live, human-led, QA.

AI Modelling

AI is applied live to enrich data and generate new data points and predictive metrics.

Available Through Opta Vision

Line Breaking Passes

Using on-field player positional data captured by tracking sources, our AI technology accurately captures all situations where a player’s pass successfully breaks an opposition line.

Pressure Intensity

Pressure Intensity automatically identifies when defensive players approach the player in possession intending to win the ball back or limit passing options. Accounting for the three closest opposition players to the ball, a pressure level is captured for every open play pass.

3D Goal Animations

Generate simplified 3D animations of goals instantly after they occur, which detail the event, players and team names instantly. Enrich animations further with Expected Goals (xG), Pressure (xP), and more, delivered within three minutes of the event.

Additional Enriched Models

Other Opta Vision outputs include pass prediction metrics, including Expected Pass Completion (xP), Pass Option Quality, Pass Options and Availability, as well as Shape Analysis insights and Expected Threat (xT).

Line Breaking Passes

Insight into Passes Which Break Through the Opposition

Line Breaking Passes measure a player’s impact on a team’s offensive output by tracking the success of passes in which the ball breaks the line of the opposing team’s defence. When a forward pass is successfully made from an attacking player to a target defended by two or more players in active play, that pass is considered line breaking.

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.

Opta Vision: Line Breaking Passes Explained (02:07)

Pressure Intensity

Evaluating Performance in High-Pressure Situations

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

Pressure Intensity gives media coverage and pro analysts insight into:

The success rate of passes by an attacking player, based on the amount of pressure faced.
The amount of pressure applied by defending teams and how those teams fare when facing pressure across a competition.
The link between the pressure applied by a defending team and the number of times that team regains possession as a result.

Opta Vision: Pressure Intensity Explained (01:44)

Opta Vision in Action

How Opta Vision is used to enhance data-driven storytelling

From training data to player scouting, live broadcast to social media, Opta Vision can be tailored to any outlet’s needs to quickly and easily provide greater depth to football analysis.

Pass Predictions

Did the player make the pass that created the highest amount of potential threat for a goal? Is the player selecting the passing option that is most likely to be successful?

Dive into deep analysis of player performance at each pass to guide training and enrich play-by-play coverage live on-air.

Shape Analysis

Has the team’s shape changed throughout the course of play? What are the common shapes a team takes on the field, and how can that information be exploited to beat the competition?

As the match progresses, roles for each player change due to countless variables. Explain to fans how a player’s change of role increase or decreases their efficiency on the team or leverage shape changes to plan counter moves from a tactical perspective.

Shape Efficiency

Which shapes create the greatest attacking threats, which shapes generate the most possession time and how can shapes change the outcome of the match?

Powered by a deep and rich database, Opta Vision compares hundreds of games by club, competition, league, tournament and more to provide greater insight into shape analysis.

Team Shape

What are the common trends in a team’s shape composition? How has a club approached the season under a new manager, and how has this new approach impacted the performance on the field?

Automatic and dynamic shape data capturing allows for Opta Vision to give coaches and commentators alike the power to evaluate what shapes a team is most likely to face and what shapes produce the greatest threat.

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 Opta Vision enriched 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