Unlocking the potential of big data to support tactical performance analysis in professional soccer: A systematic review

FR Goes, LA Meerhoff, MJO Bueno… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In professional soccer, increasing amounts of data are collected that harness great potential
when it comes to analysing tactical behaviour. Unlocking this potential is difficult as big data …

Machine learning in men's professional football: Current applications and future directions for improving attacking play

M Herold, F Goes, S Nopp, P Bauer… - … Journal of Sports …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
It is common practice amongst coaches and analysts to search for key performance
indicators related to attacking play in football. Match analysis in professional football has …

[BOOK][B] Artificial intelligence in sport performance analysis

D Araújo, M Couceiro, L Seifert, H Sarmento, K Davids - 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
To understand the dynamic patterns of behaviours and interactions between athletes that
characterize successful performance in different sports is an important challenge for all sport …

Methods of performance analysis in team invasion sports: A systematic review

F Lord, DB Pyne, M Welvaert, JK Mara - Journal of sports sciences, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The objective of this review was to systematically describe the traditional and contemporary
data capture and analytic methods employed in performance analysis research in team …

Sport science integration: An evolutionary synthesis

N Balagué, C Torrents, R Hristovski… - European journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of the paper is to point out one way of integrating the supposedly incommensurate
disciplines investigated in sports science. General, common principles can be found among …

General network analysis of national soccer teams in FIFA World Cup 2014

FM Clemente, FML Martins, D Kalamaras… - … Analysis in Sport, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Midfielder as the prominent participant in the building attack: A network analysis of national teams in FIFA World Cup 2014

FM Clemente, FML Martins, PD Wong… - … Analysis in Sport, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This study aimed to analyze the most prominent players' positions that contributed to the
build of attack in football during FIFA World Cup 2014. The connections among teammates …

Footballers' movement behaviour during 2-, 3-, 4-and 5-a-side small-sided games

M Aguiar, B Gonçalves, G Botelho… - Journal of sports …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this study was to compare footballers' movement behaviour during 2-, 3-, 4-and 5-
a-side small-sided games. Ten young professional players (age= 18.0±0.67 years) …

Network analysis in basketball: Inspecting the prominent players using centrality metrics

F Manuel Clemente, F ML Martins… - Journal of physical …, 2015 - comum.rcaap.pt
The aim of this study was to analyse the team-members cooperation in basketball by using
centrality metrics of network. Different ages were compared in this study. Forty players (10 …

Spatial and temporal entropies in the Spanish football league: A network science perspective

JH Martínez, D Garrido, JL Herrera-Diestra, J Busquets… - Entropy, 2020 - mdpi.com
We quantified the spatial and temporal entropy related to football teams and their players by
means of a pass-based interaction. First, we calculated the spatial entropy associated to the …