Right Move, Right Time: Multi-Sport Space Evaluation Platform for Ultimate Frisbee, Basketball, and Soccer

TL;DR

This paper introduces a versatile platform that standardizes spatial analysis across Ultimate Frisbee, basketball, and soccer, enabling consistent evaluation of usable space and timing for off-ball movements in different invasion sports.

Contribution

It presents a sport-agnostic, standardized spatial evaluation platform that allows cross-sport analysis and comparison of tactical space and timing.

Findings

Successful implementation in Ultimate Frisbee as a testbed

Transferability of analysis between basketball and soccer

Practical approach for consistent evaluation across invasion sports

Abstract

We present an open, sport-agnostic platform that turns tracking into comparable spatial measures across professional Ultimate, basketball, and soccer. Coaches in all three sports ask the same question: where is the usable space, and when should an off-ball run start? Our workflow standardizes inputs, provides timing-aware spatial evaluations, and makes it possible to reuse the same analysis across sports. We illustrate the approach with Ultimate as a focused testbed and then examine transfer between basketball and soccer. Together, these results show a practical path toward consistent, comparable evaluation across various invasion sports.