arXiv:2607.26061cs.LGcs.AI2026-07

用比赛行为数据预测足球赛果,不依赖球队名字也能通用。

Sim2Win: A Team-Agnostic, Event-Based Pre-Match Outcome Prediction and Tactical Profiling System for Football

论文配图:Sim2Win: A Team-Agnostic, Event-Based Pre-Match Outcome Prediction and Tactical Profiling System for Football
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  • 基于事件数据构建滚动战术画像,无须球队身份信息
  • 在未见球队上达55.4%准确率,优于传统评分系统
  • 适合需要跨队泛化的战术分析与赛前决策场景

职业足球赛前战术决策长期依赖主观专家分析和基于球队身份的探查体系,难以泛化至未见球队。本文提出Sim2Win,一种无需球队名称、基于事件数据的赛前结果预测与战术画像系统,将比赛结果预测重构为战术决策支持问题。利用来自11项赛事、178支队伍、1,411场次的StatsBomb公开事件数据,Sim2Win构建五场比赛滚动战术档案,设计四个可解释的战术特征比值,通过K-Means聚类将球队行为划分为八种打法类型,并训练十三个分类器,从战术对位表示中估计胜负平概率。系统不使用球队名称或身份特征,实现对训练中未见球队的泛化能力。严格的留一联赛外(LOCO)评估显示,Sim2Win在完全未见球队上的平均ROC-AUC为0.704,平均准确率为55.4%,在全部21次ROC-AUC对比中超越ELO、Pi-Rating与GAP基线,在19次准确率对比中胜出。所有模型中,CatBoost在分布内表现最佳,准确率达60.90%。结果表明,行为式战术表征在分布偏移下仍具可迁移预测信号,是身份依赖型足球预测系统的可行替代方案。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Pre-match tactical decision-making in professional football relies heavily on subjective expert analysis and identity-based scouting systems that cannot generalize to unseen teams. This paper presents Sim2Win, a team-agnostic, event-based pre-match tactical recommendation framework that reframes match outcome prediction as a tactical decision-support problem. Using StatsBomb open event data from eleven competitions spanning 178 teams and 1,411 team-match records, Sim2Win constructs five-match rolling tactical profiles, engineers four interpretable tactical feature ratios, clusters team behaviors into eight playstyles via K-Means, and trains thirteen classifiers to estimate win, draw, and loss probabilities from tactical matchup representations. The system operates without team names or identity features, enabling generalization to teams never seen during training. A rigorous Leave-One-Competition-Out (LOCO) evaluation demonstrates that Sim2Win achieves a mean ROC-AUC of 0.704 and mean accuracy of 55.4% on completely unseen teams, outperforming ELO, Pi-Rating, and GAP baselines on all 21 ROC-AUC comparisons and 19 of 21 accuracy comparisons. Among all evaluated models, CatBoost achieved the strongest in-distribution performance with 60.90% accuracy. These findings suggest that behavioral tactical representations provide transferable predictive signal under distribution shift and offer a viable alternative to identity-dependent football prediction systems.

足球预测战术分析行为建模泛化能力

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