Is there a way to identify the player in a 360 frame?
wwwidonja opened this issue · comments
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1.0.1
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Windows
What Python version are you running, are you using a virtual environment? Give us as much info as you can.
3.8
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I'm interested if there is a way to identify which player (name, id...) corresponds to an actor, present in a 360 dataframe (in the open data) and - if not - am curious if anyone has attempted to identify them.
Cheers and kind regards,
Vid Stropnik
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That information is available in the event data for the match you're interested in, so it's a case of joining the relevant output of sb.events() to the output of sb.frames() on event uuid, e.g.
import pandas as pd
from statsbombpy import sb
events = sb.events(match_id=3788741)
frames = sb.frames(match_id=3788741)
player_info = events[["id", "player", "player_id"]].rename(
columns={"player": "actor_name", "player_id": "actor_id"}
)
frames = pd.merge(player_info, frames, on="id", how="left")
Thank you for your response. However, I believe that the answer above only answers the question of which player is the actor: ie the on ball player at a given snapshot.
I was interested if it was possible to identify each individual player, corresponding to a row in the frames dataframe.
Kind regards,
Vid S
No. We don't collect the identities of other players at present (apart from the goalkeeper when they are visible). The only public work I know of that attempts to infer player IDs in 360 data without using additional data sources is this, but it won't be totally accurate.