Moritz Philipp Haaf, Football Data Scientist
From broadcast video to pitch control. I build computer-vision and tracking-data pipelines that turn match footage into player positions and spatial metrics, validated against ground truth, for recruitment and match analysis where optical tracking isn't available. Based in Vienna, Senior Data Analyst at Publicis Media, open to football data science roles (EU & UK).
Credentials
- EMEA Finalist, AWS World Sports Innovation Cup 2026.
- MSc Artificial Intelligence Applied to Sports, completed.
Featured projects
- Pitch-Control from Broadcast Video: YOLOv11n, ByteTrack and TVCalib pipeline validated against SoccerNet GSR ground truth.
- Football Body Intelligence Platform: 700M+ TRACAB 3D skeleton points processed on AWS S3, SageMaker and Bedrock.
- World Cup of Data: co-authored 2026 FIFA World Cup match analyses for the Sports Data Campus series.
- Bundesliga Performance and Valuation Analysis.
- Scouting data pipeline for a professional club (NDA), scraping and ETL.
Skills
Python, SQL, computer vision, broadcast tracking, TRACAB tracking data, StatsBomb and Wyscout event data, xG, pitch control, AWS, Power BI, Tableau.
Contact
Email itzmore.dev@gmail.com, LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/moritz-philipp-haaf, GitHub github.com/itzmore-mph.