Whether the passion disappears the road of sports athletics under the big data

1 Preface

The 2014 Brazil World Cup gave the fans a passionate, tears, helplessness of the course, sports competition is because of too many unknown to let the fans more excited and look forward to, football is round, in the football field can happen all miracles, of course, black whistle and match-fixing is not within the normal range.

However, the World Cup in Brazil, in addition to Spain, Italy, such as the traditional strong team of the early out of the big data to use large numbers of the game forecast also become a bright spot. At the same time we also found that in the modern sports competition in fact, the use of large data has been more common, large data analysis for the team or coaches is very important things, through such data can better understand the players and the future trend of development.

In fact, there are many factors involved in the outcome of a game, is it more accurate by data calculation or intuitive? Presumably many people believe in data calculation, but for sports fans, the unknown result is the source of passion and motivation, when everything in the data show the real person when you still have passion? However, the World Cup in our "Say Wen word" in the success of the World Cup winners, believe that Bailey will learn more Chinese culture.

2 Magical World Cup predictions

The results of this year's World Cup show a lot of people surprised, I believe that some fans have lost a lot of money, the group's last champions Spain, Portugal's sadness, Italy, England together out of the fall of our glasses, do not know how these traditional world strong team is how to play the game.

Pele is a famous prediction expert, in the early 90, Bailey loved the former Yugoslav team, 90 World Cup he predicted that the team will enter the four strong, the result of the former Yugoslavia 1/4 final defeat to Argentina. In Euro 92, he was bullish on the former Yugoslavia Cup, and the team was suspended from the civil war and failed to attend. So Bailey's prediction turned into a crow's mouth, this year's World Cup cautious, but accompanied by the departure of Neymar Bailey and accidentally said bullish Brazil, the results ...

Although the Chinese national football team can only watch live at home, but the fans are still keen on the World Cup, in fact, there has been a puzzled idea has not been confirmed, that is, other countries fans like Chinese fans of other National league? Watch the ball all night in a football carnival that doesn't belong to your own country? However, after watching the game is to give full play to our more than 5,000-year history of literary talent, our netizens have fully played the "say the word" of Kung Fu, for the four strong row of seating, the original fate of their all hidden in the profound Chinese text.

Micro-blog and micro-faith spread of the word "interpretation of text"

Germany's "de" word in the middle of a horizontal, champions are not their own, Argentina's "mountain" word is two horizontal, may be the life of the second, the Netherlands, "Blue" is the three horizontal, then the second runner-up it; Brazil's "West" word if the above part, it is clearly "four".

A crooked guess in a micro-letter

This is not counted, in the use of the word after the completion of Kung Fu, our Feng Shui name has become a netizen to laugh at the World Cup content. The Chinese most fastidious name: This World Cup, Italy big away, the West class mute, the British lattice rotten, the Ulla returned ... 1/4 final: Colombo than dumb, the flange out, Billy lost, Costali home! Follow this way of thinking, and then go on to the semi-finals: the end is Germany and Argentina, finally, the final stop, the champion should be Germany!

3 Big data on the World Cup

In fact, at the beginning of the World Cup, there was news that the game was analyzed through big data, such as Google's use of cloud Platform data (Twitter information, scoring, penalties, etc.) to predict the outcome of every game in the World Cup. Using real-time sports data company Opta data, Google used a comprehensive cloud data analysis for data extraction, bigquery responsible for functional derivation, Ipython and pandas modeling, and finally, Compute engine responsible for data processing.

The results of the predictions

Google says that by using this method, Google can predict the winning or losing of the game. So far, the Google Cloud platform has predicted 16 games and achieved good results. For the rest of the game, the Google Cloud platform predicts the following:

Brazil vs Colombia: Brazil wins (winning 71%)

France vs Germany: France wins (winning 69%)

Holland vs Costa Rica: Holland wins (winning 68%)

Argentina vs Belgium: Argentina wins (winning 81%)

Baidu forecast

Baidu integrated the team's game data and lottery site odds data. Baidu's analysis model of the total involved in the past 5 years 19,972 players and 112 million related data, the reference data include Baidu search data, Team basic data, player base data, odds market data, analysis of the team not only includes 207 national team, but also include Europe, South America, Asia and other league clubs and low level team information.

SAP Match Insights Soccer Solution

And SAP is also prepared for the game, based on the SAP HANA platform Match Insights Football solution for the German national team to help, "the match insight not only to track all the players in real-time information, each player and the overall team of mobile data, Control the percentage of the ball and other data, can also analyze the two sides in the game real-time formation change, defensive scope and defensive space, so that football experts and fans can understand the game through the data. "In this World Cup, Germany coach Insights is able to see more detailed data in match after each game," he said.

In addition, we also have some data from SAS to see through the visualization analysis in the large data to understand the effect of some details on a game, we give examples of passing.

Tip: darker color = higher correlation, whereas low correlation

Sure enough, the connection between the passing and the victory is as high as 0.8694! The more effective passes, the easier it is to win, and a little bit higher than the correlation of the experience.

Through the above examples we are not hard to find that this World Cup is shrouded in the analysis of large data, through these analysis so that we can better understand the team and the players and even the game analysis of the trend. This shows that in the future more sports events will have more based on the background of large data for us to browse and reference, large data has been deeply combined with experience.

Although we have seen so many big data for the World Cup prediction and application, unfortunately, we have not asked companies to use the equipment and some of the results available in other scenarios in response to these forecasts, using SAS's response: "The device is unpredictable because it is related to the performance of the device, There is no easy way to answer questions. SAS's high-performance analysis is the emergence of this. It's been a few days, and now it's just a few seconds or minutes, which depends on the size of the data and the performance of the device. ”

4 Summary

The World Cup finally fell to the cheers of the fans, after four years of Russia, we will see you again, Messi, J Luo, Neymar look forward to your bloom again. For the IT giants, the use of large data in this World Cup will also completely open up big data in the sport of the hijab, in fact, the big data in sports competition in the early application of only then or relatively small scope we have reason to believe that the future use of data to analyze the sports will be more and more.

Large data Although good but athletic athletics after all have the passionate movement and the blunt numerical contrast to say still has the passionate athletics athletics is to be liked, regardless of is the data match result how, the intense and the full imagination game is the audience likes!