Who are the best passing players in professional soccer? A machine learning approach for classifying passes with different levels of difficulty and discriminating the best passing players

• Murilo Merlin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Murilo Merlin, Allan Pinto, Felipe Arruda Moura, Ricardo da Silva Torres, Sergio Augusto Cunha

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ricardo.torres@ntnu.no

  Affiliations School of Physical Education, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, Faculty of São Vicente, São Vicente, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6156-4980

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• Allan Pinto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Murilo Merlin, Allan Pinto, Felipe Arruda Moura, Ricardo da Silva Torres, Sergio Augusto Cunha

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

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• Felipe Arruda Moura ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Murilo Merlin, Allan Pinto, Felipe Arruda Moura, Ricardo da Silva Torres, Sergio Augusto Cunha

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Applied Biomechanics, State University of Londrina, Londrina, Brazil

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• Ricardo da Silva Torres ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Murilo Merlin, Allan Pinto, Felipe Arruda Moura, Ricardo da Silva Torres, Sergio Augusto Cunha

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Department of ICT and Natural Sciences, NTNU–Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Ålesund, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9772-263X

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• Sergio Augusto Cunha

  Contributed equally to this work with: Murilo Merlin, Allan Pinto, Felipe Arruda Moura, Ricardo da Silva Torres, Sergio Augusto Cunha

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Physical Education, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1927-0142

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