Background Evolving patterns of match analysis research need to be systematically
reviewed regularly since this area of work is burgeoning rapidly and studies can offer new …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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) …

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 …

Modern movement tracking technologies enable acquisition of high quality data about
movements of the players and the ball in the course of a football match. However, there is a …

During the last decade, Network Science has become one of the most active fields in
applied physics and mathematics (Newman, 2010). From all its possible applications, in this …

In soccer, passing is the most frequent interaction between players and plays a significant
role in creating scoring chances. Experts are interested in analyzing players' passing …