Transforming Football Data into Object-centric Event Logs with Spatial Context Information
Abstract
Object-centric event logs expand the conventional single-case notion event log by considering multiple objects, allowing for the analysis of more complex and realistic process behavior. However, the number of real-world object-centric event logs remains limited, and further studies are needed to test their usefulness. The increasing availability of data from team sports can facilitate object-centric process mining, leveraging both real-world data and suitable use cases. In this paper, we present a framework for transforming football (soccer) data into an object-centric event log, further enhanced with a spatial dimension. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework by generating object-centric event logs based on real-world football data and discuss the results for varying process representations. With our paper, we provide the first example for object-centric event logs in football analytics. Future work should consider variant analysis and filtering techniques to better handle variability
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.12504,
title = {Transforming Football Data into Object-centric Event Logs with Spatial Context Information},
author = {Vito Chan and Lennart Ebert and Paul-Julius Hillmann and Christoffer Rubensson and Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen and Jan Mendling},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.12504},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Accepted for the 3rd Workshop on Object-centric processes from A to Z (co-locatedOBJECTS 2025) with BPM 2025