Identifying soccer teams' styles of play: a scoping and critical review

S Plakias, S Moustakidis, C Kokkotis… - Journal of Functional …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Identifying and measuring soccer playing styles is a very important step toward a more
effective performance analysis. Exploring the different game styles that a team can adopt to …

Orientation and decision-making for soccer based on sports analytics and AI: A systematic review

Z Pu, Y Pan, S Wang, B Liu, M Chen… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to ever-growing soccer data collection approaches and progressing artificial
intelligence (AI) methods, soccer analysis, evaluation, and decision-making have received …

The evaluation of playing styles integrating with contextual variables in professional soccer

L Kong, T Zhang, C Zhou, MA Gomez, Y Hu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Purpose Playing styles play a key role in winning soccer matches, but the technical and
physical styles of play between home and away match considering team quality in the …

Analysis of defensive playing styles in the professional Chinese Football Super League

L Ruan, H Ge, MÁ Gómez, Y Shen… - Science and Medicine …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Aim Describing and measuring different team styles of play during matches is a key step
towards a more predictive and prescriptive performance analysis. The current study aimed to …

Association between offensive and defensive playing style variables and ranking position in a national football league

A Lopez-Valenciano, JA Garcia-Gómez… - Journal of sports …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this study was to determine the association of playing style and efficacy variables
with football success in a professional football league. Match statistics were obtained from …

The effect of substitutions on team tactical behavior in professional soccer

M Lorenzo-Martínez, R Rein… - … quarterly for exercise …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Player substitutions are one of the main options for the coach to change tactical behavior of
his team. Purpose: The present study therefore investigates the effect of player substitutions …

The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on soccer positional and physical demands in the Spanish La Liga

T García-Calvo, J Fernandez-Navarro… - … and Medicine in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The present study aimed to analyse the playing surface area, dispersion and distance
covered of professional football teams comparing the pre-lockdown and post-lockdown …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluating Sports Analytics Models: Challenges, Approaches, and Lessons Learned.

J Davis, L Bransen, L Devos, W Meert… - EBeM …, 2022 - lirias.kuleuven.be
There has been an explosion of data collected about sports. Because such data is extremely
rich and complicated, machine learning is increasingly being used to extract actionable …

Physical match demands across different playing positions during transitional play and high-pressure activities in elite soccer

L Bortnik, S Bruce-Low, J Burger, J Alexander… - Biology of …, 2024 - termedia.pl
This study explored physical match demands across different playing positions during
transitional play, to inform the need for position-specific training interventions. Data was …

The effect of contextual variables on the attacking style of play in professional soccer

J González-Ródenas, R Aranda, R Aranda-Malaves - 2020 - rua.ua.es
The aim of this paper was to investigate the interactive effects of contextual variables on the
attacking style of play in professional soccer. 5849 team possessions from 40 random …