Papers

2025

1. 

   Event Data Based Action Valuation: Possibilities and Limitations

   Leo Martins De Sá Freire

   In Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Sports Science - Daniel Memmert - Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, 2025

2024

1. 

   GraphEPV: A Framework for Estimating the Expected Possession Value in Basketball Using Graph Neural Networks

   Bruno M. Sá-Freire, Gabriel Reis, João L. L. Gonçalves, Jake Schuster, and Hugo Rios-Neto

   In Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics at ECML/PKDD 2024, 2024

   Bib

   @inproceedings{safreire2024graphepv,
     title = {GraphEPV: A Framework for Estimating the Expected Possession Value in Basketball Using Graph Neural Networks},
     author = {Sá-Freire, Bruno M. and Reis, Gabriel and Gonçalves, João L. L. and Schuster, Jake and Rios-Neto, Hugo},
     booktitle = {Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics at ECML/PKDD 2024},
     publisher = {Springer},
     year = {2024},
   }

2023

1. 

   Field Depth Matters: Comparing the Valuation of Passes in Football

   Leo Martins De Sá Freire, and Pedro O. S. Vaz-de-Melo

   In ECML/PKDD Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics (MLSA), 2023

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{safreire2023field,
     title = {Field Depth Matters: Comparing the Valuation of Passes in Football},
     author = {Freire, Leo Martins De Sá and Vaz-de-Melo, Pedro O. S.},
     booktitle = {ECML/PKDD Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics (MLSA)},
     year = {2023},
     organization = {Springer},
   }

2. 

   Characterizing Soccer Strategies based on Moves’ Frequency, Importance and Effectiveness

   Gabriel Valadão, João L. L. Gonçalves, João L. L. Megale, Vinícius M. Paula, Hugo Rios-Neto, Adriano C. M. Pereira, and Wagner Meira Jr.

   In Encontro Nacional de Inteligência Artificial e Computacional, 2023

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{valadao2023characterizing,
     title = {Characterizing Soccer Strategies based on Moves’ Frequency, Importance and Effectiveness},
     author = {Valadão, Gabriel and Gonçalves, João L. L. and Megale, João L. L. and Paula, Vinícius M. and Rios-Neto, Hugo and Pereira, Adriano C. M. and Jr., Wagner Meira},
     booktitle = {Encontro Nacional de Inteligência Artificial e Computacional},
     year = {2023},
   }

2022

1. 

   Generalized Action-based Ball Recovery Model using 360º data

   Ricardo Furbino M. Nascimento, and Hugo Rios-Neto

   In StatsBomb Conference, 2022

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{furbino2022generalized,
     title = {Generalized Action-based Ball Recovery Model using 360º data},
     author = {Nascimento, Ricardo Furbino M. and Rios-Neto, Hugo},
     booktitle = {StatsBomb Conference},
     year = {2022},
   }

2020

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   A new look into Off-ball Scoring Opportunity: taking into account the continuous nature of the game

   Hugo Rios-Neto, Wagner Meira Jr., and Pedro O. S. Vaz-de-Melo

   In FC Barcelona Analytics in Sports Tomorrow Congress, 2020

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{riosneto2020new,
     title = {A new look into Off-ball Scoring Opportunity: taking into account the continuous nature of the game},
     author = {Rios-Neto, Hugo and Jr., Wagner Meira and Vaz-de-Melo, Pedro O. S.},
     booktitle = {FC Barcelona Analytics in Sports Tomorrow Congress},
     year = {2020},
   }