Until recently tactical analysis in elite soccer were based on observational data using
variables which discard most contextual information. Analyses of team tactics require …

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 …

Dynamics of Skill Acquisition, Second Edition, provides an analysis of the processes
underlying human skill acquisition. As the first text to outline the multidisciplinary ecological …

Soccer analytics is attracting increasing interest in academia and industry, thanks to the
availability of sensing technologies that provide high-fidelity data streams for every match …

Multilevel theory and research have advanced organizational science but are limited
because the research focus is incomplete. Most quantitative research examines top-down …

A major interest in sports sciences has been the development of training programs that
provide team sports coaches with reliable methods for improving training while enhancing …

There is a need to update scientific assumptions in sport to promote the critical thinking of
scientists, coaches, and practitioners and improve their methodological decisions. On the …

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 …

Passing behaviour is a key property of successful performance in team sports. Previous
investigations however have mainly focused on notational measurements like total passing …

Significant criticisms have emerged on the way that collective behaviours in team sports
have been traditionally evaluated. A major recommendation has been for future research …