Sports analytics in Netball

Netball & Sri Lanka

Netball is a ball sport played by two teams of seven players.

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Each team attempts to score goals by passing a ball down the court through players with assigned goals and areas and shooting the ball through a goal ring.

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Sri Lanka won the championship in the 11th Asian Netball Championships against Singapore

Why do we need analytics for netball?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-05/australian-netballs-secret-weapon-is-a-school-of-fish/9014326?nw=0&r=HtmlFragment

Digitizing Sri Lankan Netball

Approach

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• Obtaining traditional summary measures from the data
• Manually collecting data through data entry
• Collecting videos from matches played to analyse the player positions

Challenges

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• Requires a format for data entry in which the actions of an event can be captured
• Needs manual labor to capture and mark event data
• Accurately estimating the pose and position tracking requires a large number of data

The Netball App

Analytics from app

Architecture

Uses Azure SQL as a backend database to ensure that the data is retained safely and accessed quickly

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Currently the application is implemented using R Shiny and is under development stage.

Future Analytics

• Pose estimation and player tracking from videos
• Spatio temporal analysis of player position and openings
• Visualizing response strategies using reinforcement learning
• And many more!

Thank you