Women´s Soccer Complexity

Conference on Complex Systems Satellite Session

Hybrid Modality (Online and Onsite)

Motivation & Purposes

Sports industries' development based on data analytics, modeling, and simulation are rapidly changing and are in a disruptive innovation moment. Professional sports teams commonly have a plethora of data, but do they know how to extract useful information? Or how we can transform data into actionable intelligence? This situation causes sports managers to increasingly suffer from the Data-Rich and Information-Poor Syndrome (DRIPS): when a director has plenty of data from players' performance but does not have a clear roadmap with scientific and technological tools to make data actionable.

Nowadays, in sports, many data platforms exist that collect, share, and leverage data related to the players' performance and actions during a match or season. This data explosion has several difficulties translating data into information and practical knowledge that can lead to better strategic decision-making for different users. Since knowledge generation from sports analytics data requires a scientific perspective, an integrated data science, computational sciences, and complexity science approach is required to face the DRIPS.

In this context, our satellite will focus on integrating different actors and sectors of the sports ecosystem, such as managers, researchers, trainers, entrepreneurs, angel investors, start-up CEOs, students, and academics. Our main goal is to generate relevant interactions between them to study and analyze sports complexity by integrating scientific and social knowledge.

In this edition, we will center on soccer, since in soccer, we find a multitude of complex systems, from the game itself, the competition, the club, and a player to fans.

 Thematics

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