README.md

In salembsk/playeraction: Compute on the ball action values for soccer players

Playeraction

The purpose of playeraction R package , an alternative for socceraction a Python package developed by Tom Decross , is to provide R functions to convert event stream action mainly from Opta to SPADL (Soccer Player Action Description Language) and VAEP (Valuing Actions by Estimating Probabilities) .

Installation

playeraction supports R (>= 3.5.1)

To install playeraction package from local source :

install.packages("<path_to_source>/playeraction.zip", repos=NULL, type="source")

or an alternative way using devtools package :

devtools::install_local("<path_to_source>/playeraction.zip")

Conversion to SPADL

playeraction will be able to convert provided Opta F24 Feed to an unified language for player action during a soccer game.

salembsk/playeraction documentation built on Nov. 10, 2020, 8:03 p.m.