Tracking Multiple Handball Players using Multi-Commodity Network Flow for Assessing Tactical Behavior

The aim of this work is to present an approach that can help to characterize teams’ and players’ tactical behavior using two techniques to aid handball coaches to assess tactical procedures when using spatial measures derived from players position data. Results suggest that it is possible to identify tactical spatial differences between fast-break and fast throw-off. The approach presented in this work may be useful to reduce the time spent in game analysis and to improve coaches’ assessment of tactical performance during the training sessions.

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