Motivation
In competitive soccer at the club and varsity level, it is very difficult for managers to assess every player on the field equally as each player is moving concurrently in a specialized position. In a soccer match, managers and coaches are not able...
Background
My name is John-Paul van Essche and I am currently a senior Electrical Engineering student at Union College in Schenectady, NY. I have always had a keen interest for soccer, so I developed an idea for my project after reading an article on how gathering statistical data can pave the way for professional teams in the future. As a Premier League aficionado, I developed an interest in observing the statistics that set the best teams and individual players apart from others. Although not every aspect of a soccer player's game can be quantified, it is interesting to see what statistics are most important to coaches and how management can be improved by observing detailed data...
Implementation
The successful development of a GPS unit that tracks player movements specifically for soccer was the result of three terms of brainstorming, planning, research and implementation. The overall aim of the senior design project was to develop a prototype by exercising some of the fundamental engineering concepts learned in a capstone process...
Project Construction
This section has a few images on different phases of the project.
