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I'm feeling pretty good, after a long game of football(soccer). I scored a lot, but mostly had fun stealing the ball and doing aerial play.
I think I finally understand a fundamental difference between Brazilian (and Argentinian) and Gringo football: control of the ball. For me, tackling in Holland is easy. (NB: I play clean & safe: no sliding tackles) Today I stole lots and lots of balls from these guys, but they couldn't steal it from me nearly as easily (I think I have more "malice" than they do). Besides my Brazilian training, I have a knack for accurate shooting: I've always liked to practice kicking things in the air. I'm also good at finding spaces to pass. So what am I not good at? My long-distance shooting could use some improvement... and I could be better at "dribbling" to get past defenders. But I think I really need to play with people at my level in order to see my shortcomings well.
In Europe, players don't control the ball nearly as well as in Brazil. They can't fake their dribbles well enough: I can still tell what they're going to do.
AI
I'd like to model the plan construction that goes on in players' heads. I think most people don't realize how much planning goes on in football games. It's true that you can't plan more than 30 seconds ahead. And the beautiful thing is that this planning/replanning process becomes automatic and second-nature as you get experienced.
Players who can see solutions that the others don't see are said to have "insight". Such moves also have the advantage of catching the opponent off-guard.
A lot of the man-to-man confrontation involves economic "game theory": fake signalling, etc.
One of my early AI project dreams was a system to understand football games. I think we first need good 3D data of these games.
I think I finally understand a fundamental difference between Brazilian (and Argentinian) and Gringo football: control of the ball. For me, tackling in Holland is easy. (NB: I play clean & safe: no sliding tackles) Today I stole lots and lots of balls from these guys, but they couldn't steal it from me nearly as easily (I think I have more "malice" than they do). Besides my Brazilian training, I have a knack for accurate shooting: I've always liked to practice kicking things in the air. I'm also good at finding spaces to pass. So what am I not good at? My long-distance shooting could use some improvement... and I could be better at "dribbling" to get past defenders. But I think I really need to play with people at my level in order to see my shortcomings well.
In Europe, players don't control the ball nearly as well as in Brazil. They can't fake their dribbles well enough: I can still tell what they're going to do.
AI
I'd like to model the plan construction that goes on in players' heads. I think most people don't realize how much planning goes on in football games. It's true that you can't plan more than 30 seconds ahead. And the beautiful thing is that this planning/replanning process becomes automatic and second-nature as you get experienced.
Players who can see solutions that the others don't see are said to have "insight". Such moves also have the advantage of catching the opponent off-guard.
A lot of the man-to-man confrontation involves economic "game theory": fake signalling, etc.
One of my early AI project dreams was a system to understand football games. I think we first need good 3D data of these games.
