19 papers · ranked by Valyu relevance
Pierpaolo Sansone, Anthony S. Leicht, Vincenzo Rago, Miguel Angel Gomez-Ruano
After the first edition of the Research Topic ([Sansone et al.]()), the second one collected an impressive number of 23 studies, spanning from physiological demands and training design to mental fatigue, psychological wellbeing, coaching behavior, and in-competition decision-making. Altogether, the obtained evidence…
Benjamin Salcinovic, Michael Drew, Paul Dijkstra, Gordon Waddington + 1 more
Background The primary aim of our systematic scoping review was to explore the factors influencing team function and performance across various industries and discuss findings in the context of the high-performance sport support team setting. These outcomes may also be used to inform future research into…
Arnaud Odet, Thomas Bechard, Sebastien Déjean, Cristian Pasquaretta
This research addresses short-term performance prediction in Rugby Union using player tracking data. Rugby’s unique characteristics as a conquest sport with strict offside rules make the ball position a crucial performance indicator. We used event data to identify ball carriers in offensive phase and considered their…
Jérôme Bourbousson, Mathieu Feigean, Roland Seiler
Sport teams spend a lot of time and money to compile the best team in order to increase the chance to win. In this light, Lopez et al. () analyzed how often the best team won across different team sports. Interestingly, they showed that team successes (e.g., in baseball, ice-hockey) were very little explained through…
V. Vanessa Wergin, Clifford J. Mallett, Jürgen Beckmann
The construct of “choking under pressure” is concerned with the phenomenon of unexpected, sudden, and significant declines in individual athletes’ performances in important situations and has received empirical attention in the field of sport psychology. Although a number of theories about the reasons for the…
Jinling Li
Personal competition among colleagues and co-workers has been observed in order to prove their professional superiority over others. Such behaviors have grave consequences on the overall team performance. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of personal competition on team performance incorporating the…
Malvina Bozhidarova, Yanpei Cai, Ricardo M. S. Carvalho, Daniele Cirulli + 6 more
Modern play-by-play data make it possible to test long-standing intuitions about basketball with the same statistical rigour now routinely applied to other professional sports. Using play-by-play data from 7,054 regular-season and 504 playoff NBA games spanning the 2020-2025 seasons, we provide quantitative insights…
Iasonas Nikolaou, Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Evimaria Terzi
In this work, we develop a graphical model to capture team dynamics. We analyze the model and show how to learn its parameters from data. Using our model we study the phenomenon of team collapse from a computational perspective. We use simulations and real-world experiments to find the main causes of team collapse. We…
Jun Ichikawa, Masatoshi Yamada, Keisuke Fujii
A human group shares a common goal and distributes roles to implement activities that are difficult to accomplish alone and higher performance than an individual. In such coordination, nonverbal behavior among three or more members makes it difficult to explain the mechanism because of complex and dynamic interactions.…
Anne Schmidt, Franziska Geringswald, Stefan Pollmann
We investigated in two experiments if handball and action video game players show improved implicit learning of repeated spatial configurations for efficient search guidance in comparison to a control group without sport or video game proficiency. To this end, we used both a sport-specific pseudo 3-D contextual cueing…
V. Vanessa Wergin, Zsuzsanna Zimanyi, Christopher Mesagno, Jürgen Beckmann
'Jürgen Beckmann'] Collective team collapse occurs when multiple players of a sport team experience a sudden and extreme underperformance within a game. To date, minimal research has been conducted on the causes of collective team collapse. Thus, goals of this study were to explore perceived causes of collective team…
Anne Schmidt, Franziska Geringswald, Fariba Sharifian, Stefan Pollmann
We tested if high-level athletes or action video game players have superior context learning skills. Incidental context learning was tested in a spatial contextual cueing paradigm. We found comparable contextual cueing of visual search in repeated displays in high-level amateur handball players, dedicated action video…
Gianmarco Ciocca, Harald Tschan, Antonio Tessitore
Post-Activation Potentiation is a phenomenon by which muscular performance characteristics are acutely enhanced as a result of their previous contractile actions. It has been shown how Post-Activation Potentiation, which is usually evoked through heavy resistance exercise, has the potential to improve many different…
Bourgeais, Quentin, Charrier, Rodolphe + 4 more
In this study, basketball teams are conceptualized as complex adaptive systems to examine their (re)organizational processes in response the time remaining to shoot. Using temporal passing networks to model team behavior, the focus is on the dynamics of the temporal patterns of interaction between players. Several…
Michael J. Lopez, Gregory J. Matthews, Benjamin S. Baumer
Statistical applications in sports have long centered on how to best separate signal (e.g. team talent) from random noise. However, most of this work has concentrated on a single sport, and the development of meaningful cross-sport comparisons has been impeded by the difficulty of translating luck from one sport to…
Jooyeon Kim, Brian Keegan, Sungjoon Park, Alice Oh
Multiplayer online battle arena games provide an excellent opportunity to study team performance. When designing a team, players must negotiate a proficiency-congruency dilemma between selecting roles that best match their experience and roles that best complement the existing roles on the team. We adopt a…
Brad Stenger, Yuanyuan Feng
Increasing numbers of athletes and sports teams use data collection technologies to improve athletic development and athlete health with the goal of improving competitive performance. Personal data privacy is managed but it is not always a priority for the coaches who are in charge of athletes. There is a pressing need…
Yuhao Zhou, Ruijie Wang, Yicheng Zhang, An Zeng + 1 more
While PageRank has been extensively used to rank sport tournament participants (teams or individuals), its superiority over simpler ranking methods has been never clearly demonstrated. We use sports results from 18 major leagues to calibrate a state-of-art model for synthetic sports results. Model data are then used to…
Jiayuan Ji, Huiling Wang, Shiyu Wang, Yutong Ye + 2 more
Acute stress may disrupt decision - making by affecting cognitive and emotional processing. The behavioral and neural mechanisms of this in athletes are unclear. This study explored how acute stress impacts athletes’ unfairness - related decision - making and its neural basis. Forty participants (20 university athletes…