Right Move, Right Time: Multi-Sport Space Evaluation Platform for Ultimate Frisbee, Basketball, and Soccer

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06585v1
• Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:18:53 GMT
• Title: Right Move, Right Time: Multi-Sport Space Evaluation Platform for Ultimate Frisbee, Basketball, and Soccer
• Abstract summary: We present an open, sport-agnostic platform that turns tracking into comparable spatial measures across professional Ultimate, basketball, and soccer.<n>Our workflow standardizes inputs, provides timing-aware spatial evaluations, and makes it possible to reuse the same analysis across sports.
• Score: 3.4384744577889297
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We present an open, sport-agnostic platform that turns tracking into comparable spatial measures across professional Ultimate, basketball, and soccer. Coaches in all three sports ask the same question: where is the usable space, and when should an off-ball run start? Our workflow standardizes inputs, provides timing-aware spatial evaluations, and makes it possible to reuse the same analysis across sports. We illustrate the approach with Ultimate as a focused testbed and then examine transfer between basketball and soccer. Together, these results show a practical path toward consistent, comparable evaluation across various invasion sports.

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