Player Embedding Pipeline
Each player's season stats — goals, assists, xG, xA, chances created, passing, dribbling, defensive actions — are encoded into a dense vector representation. Players who contribute similarly on the pitch land near each other in embedding space, regardless of league or position label. To evaluate a transfer, the pipeline swaps a player into a team's roster embedding and measures the projected change in win percentage. The animation shows this process: a player card is encoded into particles, merged with the team's latent representation, and the result is extracted as a predicted uplift.