Sample StatsBomb event data from the France vs. Argentina World Cup 2018 game on the 30th June 2018, made publicly available by StatsBomb here. Data contains 145 variables in total, including x,y-coordinates (location.x
, location.y
). StatsBomb pitch dimensions are 120m long and 80m wide, meaning lengthPitch
should be specified as 120
and widthPitch
as 80
. Event data for all World Cup games (and other competitions) are accessible via the StatsBombR package available here.
data(statsbomb)
A dataframe containing 12000 frames of x,y-coordinates and timestamps from 11 players.