{"id":677,"date":"2026-02-05T14:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kie.ue.poznan.pl\/en\/?p=677"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:18:22","slug":"data-science-in-football-the-game-through-the-lens-of-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kie.ue.poznan.pl\/en\/news\/data-science-in-football-the-game-through-the-lens-of-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Science in Football: The Game Through the Lens of Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The open lecture entitled <strong>\u201cData Science in Football: The Game Through the Lens of Analytics\u201d<\/strong> took place at the Pozna\u0144 University of Economics and Business. The meeting was led by Mateusz Kuczy\u0144ski, a Data Scientist at PwC and a graduate of our university. The lecture was based on concrete data and real-world examples. During the event, participants had the opportunity to see that modern football analytics goes far beyond goals, assists, or ball possession.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kie.ue.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/datascience-mateusz-kuczynski.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kie.ue.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/datascience-mateusz-kuczynski-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-679\" \/><\/a>Mateusz Kuczy\u0144ski explained how professional clubs use data capturing match events as well as player and ball positioning, along with advanced metrics (such as xG, xT, and VAEP), to analyze gameplay, evaluate players, and support tactical and transfer decisions. The session discussed the types of data used in professional football and illustrated the transition from simple statistics to advanced probabilistic models. Attention was also drawn to the fact that some popular indicators, such as ball possession, can lead to misleading interpretations. An important part of the lecture was also an analysis of the costs of football analytics in relation to the budgets and revenues of sports clubs.<\/p>\n<p>The event was organized on <a href=\"https:\/\/ue.poznan.pl\/wydarzenia\/data-science-w-pilce-noznej-futbol-oczami-analityki\/\">January 22, 2026<\/a>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/kie.ue.poznan.pl\/en\/srg-data-science\/\">SRG Data Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The open lecture entitled \u201cData Science in Football: The Game Through the Lens of Analytics\u201d took place at the Pozna\u0144 University of Economics and Business. The meeting was led by Mateusz Kuczy\u0144ski, a Data Scientist at PwC and a graduate of our university. The lecture was based on concrete data and real-world examples. During the event, participants had the opportunity to see that modern football analytics goes far beyond goals, <a href=\"https:\/\/kie.ue.poznan.pl\/en\/news\/data-science-in-football-the-game-through-the-lens-of-analytics\/\" class=\"read-more\">&#8230; Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[296,106,234,34],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-football","tag-machine-learning","tag-mateusz-kuczynski","tag-srg-data-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kie.ue.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kie.ue.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kie.ue.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kie.ue.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kie.ue.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kie.ue.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kie.ue.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kie.ue.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kie.ue.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kie.ue.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}