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Australia's Technological World Cup Advantage

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the time-to-build-an-expert-system-bot dept.

hotsauce writes "The BBC has a piece about how Australia is using software to gain an advantage in the World Cup. The Socceroos are running software that looks for patterns in attacks of the opposing team. It also shows the effectiveness of different response strategies by recording where attacks fail when countered. This is the first time Australia has reached the World Cup in 30 years, but a real test of the technology will come today when Australia must take on five-time and current world champions Brasil. The Socceroos talk about specific strategies for that game, also."

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  1. And they lost... by freitasm · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeah? They just lost to Brazil, 2 - 0. The software must be faulty somewhere...

  2. Brazil 2 x Australia 0 by namekuseijin · · Score: 1, Redundant

    another software promise that didn't work all that great.

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    I don't feel like it...
  3. They lost by Tsunayoshi · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Enough said. The Brasil defence was stellar, and the Aussie's wasted the few oppurtunities they had for scoring.

    Time for new software, or players.

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    "Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live." - Mark Twain, "Taming the Bicycle"
  4. Re:2-0 for that bull crap software by linvir · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Let's compare:

    On one hand
    A long anonymous post on Slashdot rubbishing a new technological idea.

    On the other:
    The real-life decisions and actions of professional world-class coaches.

    Every single time anyone ever does anything new, you can come to Slashdot and see a million reasons why it'll crash and burn. Dozens of nerds get to feel like kings for a day because they rubbished the actions of someone successful and a few of their peers agreed with them.

    And it's complete and utter bullshit. How the fuck do you think you know? How is it that you believe you know in advance of these more knowledgeable people, who by the way have put way more thought into this than you did when you penned your anonymous post, whether or not their ideas are of value? How is it that you already know whether there are any useful patterns or data to be found? Have you already done something similar and found nothing of use?

    Not to be presumptious - if you have, or you know of some historic precedent, please tell us. What you said is nothing more than a self-reliant statement:

    and ultimately this will serve them better on the pitch than the highest of tech off it in terms of tactics (technology is a far greater determining factor in the gym and physical conditioning aspects of tournament preparation).
    This is based on the premise that there is no precedent of people getting useful data from computer analysis of games. But is that because it has been tried and failed? You don't say. Has it been tried at all? I seem to recall that Formula 1 teams actively include computers in their race-day strategisation.