An interactive dashboard for searching and comparing soccer performance scores

TL;DR

This paper presents an interactive web dashboard that enables detailed comparison and analysis of soccer players' performance metrics, aiding scouts, coaches, and fans in identifying talent and performance trends.

Contribution

The paper introduces a novel, user-friendly dashboard integrating performance evaluation algorithms with graphical tools for customizable player analysis.

Findings

Enables comparison of players by age, role, and performance trends

Allows finding similar players based on behavior patterns

Supports customization of performance scoring parameters

Abstract

The performance of soccer players is one of most discussed aspects by many actors in the soccer industry: from supporters to journalists, from coaches to talent scouts. Unfortunately, the dashboards available online provide no effective way to compare the evolution of the performance of players or to find players behaving similarly on the field. This paper describes the design of a web dashboard that interacts via APIs with a performance evaluation algorithm and provides graphical tools that allow the user to perform many tasks, such as to search or compare players by age, role or trend of growth in their performance, find similar players based on their pitching behavior, change the algorithm's parameters to obtain customized performance scores. We also describe an example of how a talent scout can interact with the dashboard to find young, promising talents.