mplsoccer 0.0.1

mplsoccer is a Python plotting library for drawing soccer / football pitches quickly in Matplotlib.

mplsoccer

mplsoccer is a Python plotting library for drawing soccer / football pitches quickly in Matplotlib.

mplsoccer currently supports several data formats:

• Opta
• Tracab (ChyronHego) tracking data
• Statsbomb
• STATS (formerly Prozone)
• Wyscout (the pitch dimensions are taken from ggsoccer: https://github.com/Torvaney/ggsoccer)

The following example draws an Opta pitch (the default) with stripes.

from mplsoccer.pitch import Pitch
pitch = Pitch(orientation='horizontal',figsize=(10,10),stripe=True)
fig, ax = pitch.draw()
fig.savefig('opta.png',pad_inches=0,bbox_inches='tight')

For fun you can also plot the same pitch in xkcd mode.

from mplsoccer.pitch import Pitch
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.xkcd()
pitch = Pitch(orientation='horizontal',figsize=(10,10),stripe=True)
fig, ax = pitch.draw()
fig.savefig('opta_xkcd.png',pad_inches=0,bbox_inches='tight')

This library is under development

The following developments are planned

• rotation of scatter plot markers
• create pass map methods
• add examples (team line-up / pass maps/ pressure maps/ subplots)
• add method for plotting Voronoi diagrams
• create documentation using Sphinx