Unlike other data providers, Opta does not give information about the pass receiver in the raw data of their pass events.
We could, however, deduce the receiving player ID from the next event. If we consider the next event after a successful pass and use the ID of the player executing that event, if the next event has a type one of the ball owning events.
DriesDeprest
commented
6 months ago
Unlike other data providers, Opta does not give information about the pass receiver in the raw data of their pass events.
We could, however, deduce the receiving player ID from the next event. If we consider the next event after a successful pass and use the ID of the player executing that event, if the next event has a type one of the ball owning events.
@koenvo do you think this is a good idea?