Analyzing Soccer Goalkeeper Performance Using a Metaphor-Based Visualization

The dimensionality of soccer statistics relating to goalkeeper specific data can be difficult to interpret. Leveraging our existing statistical analytics tool, Soccer Scoop, we developed a goalkeeper visualization add-on that can assist a team manager. With the newly developed goalkeeper visualization tool, a team manager can compare a single goalkeeper between two games, measure the overall performance of the goalkeeper both for games played at home or away, as well as to devise the appropriate training exercises needed to strengthen any visible weakness. To keep with the continuity of the visualization styles of our first tool, Soccer Scoop, the goalkeeper visualization applies similar techniques, such as glyphs, details on demand, color, and Gestalt principles.