Fractal Analysis on the Football Pitch

This paper focuses on the fractal analysis of the football match between the teams Real Madrid and Barcelona from La Liga 2017/2018 season. We construct the weighted networks of passes for both team based on database. Using the fractal dimension algorithm from massopust, we interpret the weighted networks and we highlight the most important passing pairs of the teams. We identify the progress from the passing pairs to the connected community. We also compare the fractal dimension values on the result passing networks on the players activity. We also highlight a new possible perspective on connecting micro-, meso-and macroscale analysis methods for football teams.