footballdocile
Footballdocile is a term used in football data management to describe a framework and set of practices aimed at standardizing the documentation, provenance, and reproducibility of football-related data and analytics pipelines. It applies to a range of data types, including match event logs, player tracking data, and tactical annotations, with an emphasis on clarity and accessibility for researchers, journalists, and developers.
The label emerged in online football analytics communities in the late 2010s as practitioners sought a concise
Footballdocile centers on four pillars: data provenance and lineage, standardized event coding and metadata, explicit methodological
A footballdocile-compliant project typically includes: event logs with a defined dictionary; metadata about competitions and seasons;
The concept has influenced several open-data initiatives and collaborative research efforts by promoting comparability and reproducibility.
Adoption is not universal, and maintaining comprehensive documentation requires ongoing effort. Variations in primary data sources