opunsoars / pitchly

A python package that is a wrapper for Plotly to generate football tracking and event data plots

Overview

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A python package that is a wrapper for Plotly to generate football tracking and event data plots

• Free software: MIT license

Installation

pip install pitchly

You can also install the in-development version with:

pip install https://github.com/opunsoars/pitchly/archive/master.zip

pitchly currently supports Metrica data formats. Other formats coming soon.

Documentation

https://pitchly.readthedocs.io/

Development

To run all the tests run:

tox

Note, to combine the coverage data from all the tox environments run:

Windows	set PYTEST_ADDOPTS=--cov-append tox
Other	PYTEST_ADDOPTS=--cov-append tox

Contact

Get in touch! For help or to contribute with ideas and to discuss football analytics. Mail me at [email protected] or connect on Twitter | LinkedIn

The story behind putting this small package together came from the short project in the Friends of Tracking initiative last year (2020).

Acknowledgements

• David Sumpter - for the amazing Friends of Tracking initiative
• Laurie Shaw for pitch control implementation and starter code for data processing
• Bruno Dagnino & Metrica Sports - for the open data (especially tracking)
• Koen Vossen - for kloppy library and inspiring work in open source football analytics