Stacking-based deep neural network for player scouting in football 1
Simon Lacan
Datascouting is one of the most known data applications in professional
sport, and specifically football. Its objective is to analyze huge database of
players in order to detect high potentials that can be then individually
considered by human scouts. In this paper, we propose a stacking-based deep
learning model to detect high potential football players. Applied on
open-source database, our model obtains significantly better results that
classical statistical methods.