用GPT模型预测球员在球队中的表现,模拟转会后适应情况。
EventGPT: Capturing Player Impact from Team Action Sequences Using GPT-Based Framework
- 将比赛事件建模为序列,预测下一次动作和价值
- 在英超五赛季数据上准确率优于基线模型
- 可模拟球员换队后的表现变化,助评估转会适配
转会是决定足球俱乐部成功的关键因素,但因场上表现高度依赖情境,难以预测转会是否成功。现有评估多依赖静态统计数据或事后价值模型,无法捕捉球员在新战术体系或不同队友下的贡献变化。为此,我们提出EventGPT,一种基于GPT风格自回归变压器的球员条件化、价值感知的下一事件预测模型。该模型将比赛过程视为离散事件序列,联合预测下一个持球动作的类型、位置、时间及其估计的残差持球价值(rOBV),依据前序上下文与球员身份。其核心贡献在于支持反事实模拟:通过将学习到的球员嵌入替换至新的事件序列中,可模拟球员在不同球队或战术结构下的行为分布与价值表现变化。在五个赛季的英超事件数据上,EventGPT在下一事件预测准确率与空间精度方面均优于现有序列基线。进一步通过案例研究验证其实际应用价值,如比较前锋在不同体系中的表现、识别特定角色的风格替代者,证明该方法为评估转会适配提供了一种系统性路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Transfers play a pivotal role in shaping a football club's success, yet forecasting whether a transfer will succeed remains difficult due to the strong context-dependence of on-field performance. Existing evaluation practices often rely on static summary statistics or post-hoc value models, which fail to capture how a player's contribution adapts to a new tactical environment or different teammates. To address this gap, we introduce EventGPT, a player-conditioned, value-aware next-event prediction model built on a GPT-style autoregressive transformer. Our model treats match play as a sequence of discrete tokens, jointly learning to predict the next on-ball action's type, location, timing, and its estimated residual On-Ball Value (rOBV) based on the preceding context and player identity. A key contribution of this framework is the ability to perform counterfactual simulations. By substituting learned player embeddings into new event sequences, we can simulate how a player's behavioral distribution and value profile would change when placed in a different team or tactical structure. Evaluated on five seasons of Premier League event data, EventGPT outperforms existing sequence-based baselines in next-event prediction accuracy and spatial precision. Furthermore, we demonstrate the model's practical utility for transfer analysis through case studies-such as comparing striker performance across different systems and identifying stylistic replacements for specific roles-showing that our approach provides a principled method for evaluating transfer fit.
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