Team-based invasion sports such as football, basketball, and hockey are similar in the
sense that the players are able to move freely around the playing area and that player and …

While network analysis is a major methodological approach in many disciplines of the social
and natural sciences, it has only recently come into the focus of sport researchers. This …

Individual players act as a coherent unit during team sports performance, forming a team
synergy. A synergy is a collective property of a task-specific organization of individuals, such …

Understanding how youth football players base their game interactions may constitute a
solid criterion for fine-tuning the training process and, ultimately, to achieve better individual …

This paper discusses how social network analyses and graph theory can be implemented in
team sports performance analyses to evaluate individual (micro) and collective (macro) …

In recent years, analytics has started to revolutionize the game of basketball: Quantitative
analyses of the game inform team strategy; management of player health and fitness; and …

This study analyzed the network characteristics of successful and unsuccessful national
teams that participated in FIFA World Cup 2014. The relationship between the variables of …

Information entropy metrics have been applied to a wide range of problems that were
abstracted as complex networks. This growing body of research is scattered in multiple …

We consider the problem of learning predictive models for in-game sports play prediction.
Focusing on basketball, we develop models for anticipating near-future events given the …

The aim of this study was:(i) to group basketball players into similar clusters based on a
combination of anthropometric characteristics and playing experience; and (ii) explore the …