Preparing the Model Input

[Rijul1999]

Besides the embeddings we need to add some hand crafted features:

1. Home/Away in the match stream
2. Form from league data / CL data ( Last 5-10 games) in match stream

The model output for the team should be:

1. Blocks_team_A
2. Blocks_team_B
3. Possession of one team
4. Passes_team_A
5. Passing_accuracy_team_A / Passes_completed_team_A
6. Passes_team_B
7. Passing_accuracy_team_A / Passes_completed_team_B
8. Corners_team_A
9. Corners_team_B

The model output for the individual player should be:

1. Goals. Return that 100 length vector.
2. Blocks
3. Fouls
4. Shots
5. Shots on target
6. Interceptions
7. Offsides

Therefore total number of output parameters = 9 + 14/15 * 7 * 2 (2 because players of both teams)

[samruddhibothara]

I'll do the home/away match data.

About the form , based on what parameters are we calculating it?

[Het-Shah]

For form, I guess we can use the individual player's data for the past 5/10 games. So it can be either a vector or a score based on a weighted average of goals, blocks, fouls, etc.

[Sharanranjit]

So for the form indexes (team and individual players), we can scrape from the League table in fbref website.
It contains the information for past 5 matches of all the teams qualified for round 16 of current CL season.