England’s top football leagues will soon use optical tracking to automate the offside call section. Premier League explain On Tuesday Semi-automated offside technology (SAOT) In the live competition that began on April 12. The league says the new technology won’t change the accuracy of offside calls, but that will make them faster on average 30 seconds faster.
SAOT uses sensors of 30 cameras high above each Premier League stadium. They track the exact position of the ball, with up to 10,000 surface data points per player. Sports Technologies’ Genius Sports explained that the technology “using optical player tracking provides more efficient virtual off-lever lines and generates virtual graphics to ensure an enhanced gym and broadcast experience for fans.”
For beginners, it is called football in football when the main player of the offensive team is closer to the opponent’s goal line than the ball and second defender. (The last defender is generally goalkeeper. ) In recent years, the Premier League has defaulted Video Assistant Referee (VAR) The team will decide on the kick point (when the attacker’s teammates pass it) and add calibration lines for the attacker and defender at that time.
SAOT cuts this (usually long) process by suggesting kick points and automatically creating off-leave lines based on the positions of relevant defenders and attackers. The VAR team still has the opportunity to review the algorithm’s recommendations before approving it.
At that time, “Decision Vision” like the following will be for fans of the stadium and those “Decision Vision” that watch the radio at home to help clarify the phone. The animation shows a white vertical wall representing a biased line with a red (offside) or green (side) line indicating whether the player has crossed it.
VAR can still be used as a backup of offside calls. “Most offside decisions will be faster, but VARs can still choose to use Crosshairs as a backup of the SAOT system if needed,” the Premier League explained. “This process may be needed in the ‘Edge Case’ where several players block the field of view of the ball or other players’ cameras.”
This is not the first time technology has been used. The Premier League has tested it in non-vibrant matches and live FA Cup matches. The BBC noted that SAOT is also used in the 2022 World Cup, Serie A, La Liga and Champions League. The Premier League version is a custom branch developed by Genius Sports along with PGMOL (Referee Organization) and the league itself. Different Previous adaptationsthe Premier League version does not place chips in the ball.
