Hudl Statsbomb Release Notes

• Search keeps you on your current page — Searching for a different player or team now lands you on the same view you were on (e.g. searching from a player's Pitch Vis page takes you to the new player's Pitch Vis). Applicable filters carry over too.

• Archiving a recruitment list returns you to the list overview — After confirming an archive, you're now taken back to your full recruitment list rather than staying on the archived list's page.

• Cleaner text and layout across the platform — Metric column headers now wrap rather than being clipped, metric names truncate neatly in the radar template builder, radar spoke labels no longer overlap their icons, and hovering on a radar spoke now shows the full metric name and description.

• Video keyboard shortcuts (play, pause, skip) now work correctly on the My Playlists page, consistent with the rest of the platform.
• Clicking an arrowhead on the Pitch Vis now triggers video playback — previously only clicking the arrow line worked.
• Sorting by Current Team and then applying or changing a filter in Player Scout no longer causes a page error.

Defensive Responsibility OBV and HOPS v2

Two extensions to models already live on the platform: Defensive Responsibility, expressed as on-ball value (OBV), and HOPS aerial ratings adjusted for opponent quality. All metrics are backfilled across the full data catalogue.

Defensive Responsibility OBV

Weighs the OBV a defender concedes based on their share of responsibility for each attacking event, putting defensive contribution on the same value scale as attacking metrics.

• player_match_obv_conceded_responsibility_weighted added to Player Match Stats v7.0.0
• player_season_obv_conceded_responsibility_weighted_90 added to Player Season Stats v6.0.0

HOPS v2: Opponent-Adjusted Aerial Ratings

Three new metrics that account for the quality of aerial opponents faced, removing the distortion of playing against weak or strong aerial teams.

• Predicted Headers: expected headers won across all aerial duels a player contested, given the difficulty of those duels. Available as player_match_predicted_headers (Player Match Stats v7.0.0) and player_season_predicted_headers_90 (Player Season Stats v6.0.0)
• Aerial Unit Rating: time-weighted average HOPS rating of a team's five highest-rated aerial players on the pitch. Available as team_match_aerial_unit_rating (Team Match Stats v3.0.0)
• Aerial Team Rating: time-weighted average HOPS rating across all 11 players, a measure of overall squad aerial solidity. Available as team_match_aerial_team_rating (Team Match Stats v3.0.0)

API version updates

• Player Match Stats v6 → v7
• Player Season Stats v5 → v6
• Team Match Stats v2 → v3

Defensive Responsibility

Every attacking action in a match - every pass, carry, dribble, and shot - is now attributed to the specific defender responsible for challenging it. Defensive Responsibility goes beyond counts of tackles and interceptions to measure the full scope of a defender's work: what they were asked to defend and how well they handled it relative to expectations. For the first time, this enables fair comparison of defenders across different teams, formations, and contexts.

Events (v9 → v10)

• Added a defensive_responsibility object to each event, identifying which defenders were responsible and with what probability

Player Match Stats (v5 → v6)

• defensive_responsibility_actions
• expected_defensive_actions
• defensive_actions_above_expectation

Player Season Stats (v4 → v5)

• defensive_responsibility_actions_90
• expected_defensive_actions, expected_defensive_actions_90
• defensive_actions_above_expectation, defensive_actions_above_expectation_90

• Side-by-side player and team comparisons with radar visualisation

• Compare the same player, or any two players, across different competitions and date ranges

• Linked directly to video

• Fixed the Display Settings button not working when the video player was open on the pitch visualisation page

• Fixed special characters displaying incorrectly in video playlist clip titles (e.g. "Brighton & Hove Albion") 

What's new?

HOPS (Header Outcome Prediction System)

We've introduced HOPS, our aerial duel model, across three data products. HOPS estimates a player's likelihood of winning an aerial contest and is now available in:

 - API Events v9.0.0 / CSV Events v9.0.0 - duel_win_probability added to shot, clearance, miscontrol, duel, and pass events where an aerial contest occurs. For aerial duels specifically, four new fields are available: hops_rating, hops_raw_rating, hops_opponent_rating, and
 hops_opponent_raw_rating.
 - API Lineups v5.0.0 - Player-level HOPS skill ratings (rating and raw_rating) added to a new skills object on each lineup entry.
 - API Team Match Stats v2.0.0 - team_match_aerial_duel_difficulty provides the average estimated win percentage of aerial duels contested, based on HOPS player scores.

Set Piece Model 2.0

Updated the method used to determine whether events occur from set pieces (API Events v9.0.0 / CSV Events v9.0.0). The new model tracks player positioning to identify when a set-piece phase has truly ended, rather than relying solely on ball position. A new set_piece_phase field (1 or
 2) is included in events that are part of set-piece play.

Attacking Direction

 attacking_direction added to events with a team_id, indicating whether the team is playing right-to-left or left-to-right relative to the camera (API Events v9.0.0 / CSV Events v9.0.0).

 Indirect Free Kick Metrics

New metrics tracking indirect free kick outcomes have been added to:

 - API Team Season Stats v3.0.0 - per-game counts, xG, shot ratios, and goal ratios for indirect free kicks (awarded and conceded)
 - API Team Match Stats v2.0.0 - match-level equivalents of the above

• Create and save custom profiles using our new, streamlined builder to define exactly how you measure performance for any position or team style.

• Customise the distributions used for the metrics selected on your profile

• Delete custom profiles

• Edit, rename and share profiles

• Last match

• Last 3 months

• Last 6 months

• Last 12 months

• Fixed a bug where the 'Success passes inside box' metric was showing n/a in tables

• Fixed a bug where the delete functionality was not working on Safari, including delete custom profiles 

• Use interactive radars to understand team performance.

• Watch video for any event on the pitch, including 360 metrics, and save them to their Hudl library.

• View squad and match stats linked to data visualizations and playlists.

• Explore > Team (Edit Columns)

• Team > Pitch Visualisation (Metric Dropdown)

• Team > Squad (Edit Columns)

• Team > Match Stats (Edit Columns)

• The video preview drawer has been added to the Player and Team Match Stats pages, this ensures consistency with other pages such as Explore > Player Scout and Team> Squad

  
   

• Fixed a bug where it wasn't possible to reorder the selected columns by dragging and dropping in the 'edit columns' modal.

• Fixed an issue raised by customers and internal users, when the user tried to go from a classic page to a new experience page, the loading spinner was continuously spinning and the page did not load.  This was due to the automatic token refresh being broken.

What's new?

• 360 metrics are now available in the new experience Player section of the Hudl Statsbomb platform. Now you can:
  • Visualize on-ball events like LBP and ball receipts in space directly on the pitch, with no coding required.
  • Validate metrics with video by instantly jumping from your data visualization or tables to a playlist of corresponding footage that can be shared to Hudl.com to enrich and validate your analysis.
  • Improve your shortlists by adding 360’s powerful contextual metrics to your Player Scout filters.

Please see explainer video for more information

What's fixed?

• Fixed csv column export behaviour for 360 metrics

• Fixed player filter dropdown flag error

• Event names were not displaying correctly on Explore/Events/Pitch Vis download

• Added metric short-names and metric definition tooltips in the following places:

  • Explore / Player Scout column headers

  • Explore / Team column headers

  • Player / Match Stats column headers

  • Selecting metrics in 'Edit columns' on these tables

  • Player / Radar table

  • When adding metric filters in Player Scout

• Set default team colours for all teams that did not have a default to avoid both showing as red on the race chart and other visualizations.

What’s New?

We have added the following to the Hudl Statsbomb New Experience:

An Attribute Filters section to the Explore/Events and Player/Pitch Visualizations pages, including:

• Renamed the ‘Type’ filter section to ‘Attributes’

• xG slider

• OBV slider

• Play Type dropdown to select whether events are Corners, Free Kicks etc

• Added the Outcome filters to Player > Pitch Vis page

• The Body Part filter is now a multi-select so the user can select more than one body part.

• Removed the Pass Height filter from the Explore > Events page to be consistent with the Player > PItch Vis page.

   

Player's current team  - added the player’s current (latest) team to the table on the Explore/Player Scout page, it is a default column next to player name.  

What’s Improved?

We have improved the following:

• Made the Player Match Stats video accessible to all users which was inadvertently hidden to customers

• The Player Pitch Vis now defaults to show 'Touches' rather than 'All Aerials' as before (this was alphabetically the first metric in the list)

• The API is being moved to an updated and more reliable system, providing a platform to deliver new metrics, models, and innovations to Hudl Statsbomb’s API and analysis platform.

• A small number of country, player, manager and competition names have been updated for greater consistency across Hudl Statsbomb systems. You can access a full list of changes here.

• Improved player metadata means that player height and weight data have fewer null values, providing more complete and reliable profiles.

• match_updated and match_updated_360 will always share the same timestamp, reflecting the last time any match data was updated.

• Fixed a bug in the competitions endpoint so match_available_360 and match_updated_360 now only display dates when 360 data actually exists, giving you more accurate visibility into coverage.

• Kick-off times are now consistently shown in UTC.

• last_updated and last_updated_360 will always share the same timestamp for consistency.

• Fixed an issue with stadium names that previously showed double apostrophes. For example, st. mary''s stadium now appears as st. mary's stadium. A full list of impacted stadium name changes can be accessed here.

• In response to feedback from customers, Event IDs are now deterministic. They no longer change with every re-import.

• We’ve increased the decimal precision in xG and OBV values, with location data shown to fewer decimal places to reflect collection fidelity.

• Due to bug fixes and API improvements, outputs from our OBV and xG models may show small differences, typically within 5% of previous values.

• The team possession model has been improved, fixing several bugs and leading to changes in possession, possession_team and play_pattern. The update defines possessions a bit differently, often breaking play earlier or grouping isolated touches.

• Since some metrics (like possession) are being recalculated, related aggregates such as possession-adjusted tackles and interceptions will also change.

• In the oldest 7% of games, flipped event coordinates may differ slightly, as the updated API no longer uses the high/low fidelity system.

• More goalkeeper events include end locations, using both the event’s start and the shot’s end coordinates.

• More passes are now classified as crosses or cut-backs because passes starting on the boundary of the qualifying areas of the pitch are now included.

• More shots will be marked as 'first_time' as the updated API now includes shots from deadball situations.

• Event timestamps may differ by about one millisecond due to a simpler rounding method.

• There is a slightly different set of carries derived in the updated API compared to previously, with approximately a 1% difference overall.

• Own_goal_for events now have a player_id recorded against the event  - this is the player that scored the own goal for the opposition team. 

• Clicking on the Explore menu now shows a Landing Page, use the tabs to choose the section you wish to explore (Player Scout, Teams or Events).  You can then either:

  • Explore Players from scratch - this takes you directly into the relevant Explore page or

  • Load saved filters which are displayed in the table on the Landing Page.  These are either filters you have saved previously or those that have been shared with you by colleagues.  New saved filters will automatically show here. 

• Added the 'Switch to Classic Experience' button to the Player Scout tab on the Explore Landing Page.

• As part of ongoing improvements to filtering within the new experience, the Goal Keeper filter section on the Explore and Pitch Visualization pages has been removed.  More to come in the next few weeks on filter improvements.

• Only the relevant current section is now highlighted on the menu, previously 2 sections could be highlighted e.g. the Explore and Player section. 

• The load filters table is now sorted by last modified date by default.

• Added a 'duplicate' option to the filter sets table - under the 3 dots (along-with 'rename' and 'delete').

• Fixed a filter set selection bug - for users with Hudl Statsbomb open in more than one tab, it was possible to load a filter set in one tab and for this to load in another tab unintentionally.

   

• Display an active filter count on the Explore/Player Scout filter tabs

• Added pitch start and end filters to the Players/Pitch Visualizations

• Made page layouts 50:50 e.g. table/video take up 50:50 of the screen area

   

• Added a back button to the Players/Radar page preview - when clicking on the radar segment users will now see a '>> filters' button which will take them back to the filters on the Radar page

• Reversed the order of the panels on the Players/Pitch Visualizations page so that when viewing video the video panel is displayed on the right (to be consistent with the behaviour on the Players/Radar and Explore pages)