During last year’s FIFA World Cup I used data provided by the official FIFA website to inform posts about the analysis of performance.
This year’s Asian Cup has an official website rich in information too. (Link)
It is fascinating to observe how opportunities are increasing for performance analysts to use secondary data.
Data for the Asian Cup are provided by STATS and this is a news item about the service STATS are providing for the Tournament.
Here are some grabs of pages available for secondary analysis.
Team Formations
Statistics
Event Chart
Team Heat Map
Individual Player Heat Map
These data are secondary data. Any performance analyst using these data needs to consider the reliability of these data sets … but I do think the opportunities offered are remarkable.
