Members only Football Are Physiological, Physical, Wellness and Load Decisive Markers of Starting Players? These findings suggest that factors beyond physical and physiological capabilities, such as tactical and technical skills, may play a more prominent role in determining starting status in this specific cohort.
Members only Mind Maps Featured A Practical Guide to Improving Sleep and Performance in Athletes The research states that sleep is a crucial aspect of optimising both mental and physical health. For athletes, sleep is becoming an increasingly popular strategy to improve athletic performance.
Members only Mind Maps Featured Contextualised Physical Metrics: The Physical Demands Vary with Phase of Play during Elite Soccer Match Play Traditionally, these demands have been measured using aggregated match metrics, which provide an overall view of player performance but do not account for variations in intensity during specific phases of play.
Members only Mind Maps Featured Integrating On-Pitch Conditioning in Football with Psychological Outcomes This research examines the integration of psychological skills training with physical conditioning in football, presenting a framework for implementing psychological skills within an integrated periodization model using Acceptance Commitment Therapy.
Members only Sports Science Featured Statistical Methods for Detecting Performance Changes in Athletes Single-subject statistical methods are crucial for evaluating performance changes in individual athletes, especially when working with smaller groups or limited data. Practitioners should move away from relying solely on group-level statistics or subjective assessments.
Mind Maps Featured Optimal Support for Elite Sprinters Using a Minimal, Adequate, and Accurate Approach In summary, sport-science support is crucial for helping athletes reach their best performance. By using the "minimal, adequate, and accurate" approach, sport scientists can provide effective and efficient support.
Members only Learning R Featured A Follow-Up Guide to Building an Athlete Monitoring Dashboard In this guide, we'll follow on from my last post on the process of creating a Shiny application to visualize sample GPS data. All the necessary files can be found at the end of this article.
Learning R Featured A Beginners Guide to Building a Comprehensive Shiny Dashboard for GPS Data Visualization In this guide, we'll walk through the process of creating a Shiny application to visualize sample GPS data. This app will include interactive charts and a styled data table. By following these detailed steps, you'll learn how to set up and deploy a Shiny app on Shinyapps.io.
Sports Science Featured Comparison of Running and Accelerometry Variables based on Match Outcome, Location and Quality of Opponent in Elite Professional Soccer Players. A 5-Season Study In summary, external match load factors were affected by playing position and contextual elements such as match outcome, location, and opponent quality.
Injury Featured A Return-to-Performance Pathway for Professional Soccer: A Criteria-based Approach to Return Injured Professional Players Back to Performance Given the economic and competitive implications of injury, how can high performance practitioners guide players’ return to performance (RTPerf)?
Members only Mind Maps Featured A Framework for Test Measurement Selection in Athlete Physical Preparation
Learning R Featured Player Performance in the League of Ireland Premier Division 2022-2024 Ranking the top 20 players based on performance metrics in the League of Ireland Premier Division 2022-2024.
Mind Maps Featured Positional Movement Demands during NFL Football Games: A 3-Year Review. American football is a collision sport played on a field and is known for its high intensity multi-directional movements and repeated high-velocity sprints interspersed with periods of rest.
Members only Mind Maps Featured Managing Travel Fatigue and Jet Lag in Athletes: A Review and Consensus Statement
Learning R Featured Player Performance in the League of Ireland Premier Division 2024 Ranking the top 25 players based on performance metrics in the League of Ireland Premier Division 2024.
Learning R Featured `worldfootballR` Tutorial: Analysing League of Ireland with Fotmob Data The Greatest League in the World!
Learning R Featured StatsBombR Tutorial: Comparing Player Shots and Goals and Shots and Key Passes per 90 in the Champions League and UEFA Euros Stay Curious!
Learning R Featured StatsBombR: A tutorial on how to use the StatsBombR package to analyse football data." All credit for this tutorial goes to StatsBomb and the webinar they recently hosted which went through this code. This tutorial is a step-by-step guide on how to use the StatsBombR package to analyse the 2024 Copa America data.
Learning R Featured EURO 24 Web Scraping: A tutorial of scraping EURO 24 Stats from FBRef by a complete beginner! I've no doubt that this can be done more efficiently than I have done it but this is what I have learned so far. I hope this helps in some way and if you are a more experienced R user, I would love to hear your feedback on how I can improve this process - feel free to reach out to me.
Sports Science Featured Match Running Performance Preceding Scoring and Conceding a Goal in Men’s Professional Soccer Within the 5 min period before scoring a goal, teams covered significantly greater distance at low- and medium-intensity when compared to before conceding a goal.
