Our group

The group on Sports Analytics was started at the end of 2017. We are researchers from different labs at Linköping University, primarily from its Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA) with a common interest in various aspects of Sports Analytics.

Our field

Sports analytics deals with using data related to sports events to obtain insights about the sport and its surroundings. In our group we interpret this broadly. The insights can relate to such things as player and team performance, strategies, training, injuries, and rules of the game.

Course

Since 2019 we have held a course in Sports Analytics every year in Spring (VT2).

In the news

• Articles about Linköping Hockey Analytics Conference - LINHAC 2023:
  • Analytiker förändrar ishockeyn (Idrott och Kunskap, Issue 2023/4: 42-47)
  • "Där har svenska målvaktstränare generellt varit långt fram i utvecklingen" (Svenska Ishockeyförbundet)
  • Så ska datan göra ishockeyn bättre: "Allt registreras" (Corren)
  • Perfekt exempel på ett bra samarbete mellan universitet och idrottslag (LiU)
  • Världens största konferens om hockey analytics på LiU (LiU)
  • The world's largest conference on ice hockey analytics at LiU (LiU)
• Issue 2002/6 of the Swedish sports science magazine "Idrott och Kunskap" features an article on sports analytics based on interviews with Patrick Lambrix (ice hockey), Anton Kalén (golf), David Sumpter (football) and Daniel Svensson (history).
• Articles about Linköping Hockey Analytics Conference - LINHAC 2022: in LiU news, LHC news
• Universitetsläraren published a short article (in Swedish) on our sports analytics work based on an interview with Patrick Lambrix.
• LiU magasin published an article (in Swedish) on our sports analytics work based on an interview with Patrick Lambrix and Niklas Carlsson. Swedish and English versions were published on the LiU web.
• Articles about our project on visualization of ice hockey data in cooperation with Linköping Hockey Club (LHC) were posted on LHC's web page and hockeysverige.se.

Master/Bachelor thesis subjects

See thesis proposals.

Contact: Patrick Lambrix.