How does artificial intelligence change the analysis of soccer games? A small team led by former Bundesliga coach Manuel Baum is also among the people who want to answer that question. A laboratory visit in a Munich basement.
Only a few minutes left to play between two football teams, it’s a draw, a goal decides about weal and woe. The coach picks up his tablet and asks the simple question: “What means have the best chance of scoring against this opponent in the rest of the season?” The artificial intelligence, fed in real time with data from the game, but also with extensive material from past games, spits out a solution. Be it the substitution of a potentially accurate player or a new tactical recipe.