Football professionals are faced with many challenges. In order to make the best possible decision in each situation, they need to consider the contexts that may impact their decisions. Although technological advances are increasingly providing insights from data, many widely-used performance metrics still struggle to capture important contextual information. As a result, the focus in the football analytics community has recently shifted to developing methods that better capture the circumstances in which players perform their actions. This chapter overviews recent approaches that quantify player performance and to what extent these approaches account for relevant technical, tactical and mental aspects that affect player performance.
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