A Universal Dense Football Event Representation Based on TabTransformer

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09327v1
• Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:47:47 GMT
• Title: A Universal Dense Football Event Representation Based on TabTransformer
• Abstract summary: The Transformer is a deep neural network architecture based on self-attention that captures dependencies between input features at arbitrary positions.<n>We propose and implement a Transformer-based model to learn latent dependencies among categorical event features and produce dense representations of football events.
• Score: 0.433313790597694
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Football event data constitute a rich spatiotemporal source for quantitative analysis of player actions in team sports. These datasets contain heterogeneous features, combining continuous location coordinates with categorical variables such as action type, action outcome, and body part. Such data have been applied in sports analytics for match outcome forecasting, player evaluation, and tactical pattern recognition. However, existing approaches predominantly encode categorical features using one-hot or ordinal embedding representations, overlooking the intrinsic semantics of action descriptors. The Transformer is a deep neural network architecture based on self-attention that captures dependencies between input features at arbitrary positions. We propose and implement a Transformer-based model to learn latent dependencies among categorical event features and produce dense representations of football events. By encoding categorical features as learned embedding vectors, sport-specific action semantics are captured during pretraining, enabling the representations to support downstream tasks such as action value estimation and play style recognition. Empirical evaluation shows that the embedding representations yield superior probability calibration over task-specific baselines on the downstream prediction tasks, as measured by Brier score.

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