This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics, MLSA 2020, colocated with ECML/PKDD 2020, in Ghent, Belgium, in September 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online.
The 11 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers present a variety of topics within the area of sports analytics, including tactical analysis, outcome predictions, data acquisition, performance optimization, and player evaluation.