Search Results - The Analyst
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Machine learning in sports: Open approach for next play analytics
Fujii, K.Published 2025“…This book is an essential read for postgraduates, researchers, and technologists, who are interested in sports analysts. The book consists of five parts: Part I, which comprises a single chapter exploring the fundamentals and scope of learning-based sports analytics; Parts II, III, IV, and V review the various aspects of this field, including data acquisition with computer vision, predictive analysis and play evaluation with machine learning, potential play evaluation with learning-based agent modeling, and future perspectives and ecosystems on the field. …”
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A comparison of three-point shooting effectiveness in the Euroleague and NCAA DI basketball
Karamousalidis, G., Foteinakis, P., Konstantinidis, G., Kifonidis, D., Kourtis-Doulkeridis, A., Symeonidou, S.Published in Journal of Human Sport & Exercise (2025)“…These findings provide valuable insights for analysts and coaches to develop effective offensive tactics tailored to the specific characteristics of each competition.…”
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Redefining player roles in professional women`s basketball: from traditional positions to functional profiles
Ibáñez, S. J., Courel-Ibáñez, J., Contreras-García, J. M., Piñar-López, M. I.Published in PLOS ONE (2025)“…These roles capture offensive, defensive, and hybrid specializations, providing coaches and analysts with a practical framework for tactical planning, scouting, and individualized player development. …”
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Playing style identification in team sports: a systematic review from statistical dimensionality reduction to unsupervised machine learning
Gu, L., Wang, W., Plakias, S., Zhang, S.Published in International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching (2025)“…Despite these limitations, dimensionality reduction and UML methods show strong potential for performance analysts and coaches, enabling objective, data-driven identification of tactical tendencies to guide training, opponent analysis, and recruitment. …”
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Comparative analysis of key performance indicators in Euroleague and national
Plakias, S., Kokkotis, C., Pantazis, D., Tsatalas, T.Published in Journal of Physical Education and Sport (2024)“…It offers practical insights that can help coaches and analysts optimize team performance and strategic planning. …”
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Advice on making the most of basketball three-point shot data
Terhanian, G.Published in The Sport Journal (2024)“…A related goal is to explain how a combination of good data, logistic regression analysis, likely effects reporting in probabilities or percentage points, and self-serve simulation can improve communication among data analysts, basketball coaches, and players, and enhance each group`s effectiveness. …”
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Quantitative analysis of professional basketball: A qualitative discussion
Zhou, Y., Li, T.Published in Journal of Sports Analytics (2023)“…Quantitative analysis of professional basketball become an attractive field for experienced data analysts, and the recent availability of high-resolution datasets pushes data-driven basketball analytics to a higher degree. …”
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Determining the key performance indicators on game outcomes in NBA based on quantile regression analysis
Zhou, W., Sansone, P., Jia, Z., Gomez, M.-A., Li, F.Published in International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport (2024)“…The insights provided by QR analysis can guide more effective team strategies and player selection, emphasising the critical need for sports analysts and practitioners to consider the appropriate statistical methods when evaluating performance indicators in basketball and other sports.…”
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The role of secondary assists in basketball - an analysis of its characteristics and effect on scoring
Supola, B., Hoch, T., Baca, A.Published in International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport (2022)“…However, the "pass that leads to an assist", which is frequently - according to the most successful coach Phil Jackson - the most important pass of the possession, remained mainly overlooked by experts and analysts alike. With the help of NBA`s SportVU positional data we analyse the characteristics and effects of this event through more than 500 games. …”
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Home advantage in sport. Causes and the effect on performance
M. A. Gomez-Ruano, R. Pollard, C. Lago-PenasPublished 2022“…The book offers a better understanding of the HA effect for MSc and PhD students, athletes, coaches, performance analysts, sport psychologists, sociologists, sport scientists and sport journalists. …”
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Predicting field-goal success according to offensive, defensive and contextual variables in elite men's wheelchair basketball
Francis, J. W., Owen, A. J., Peters, D. M.Published in PLOS ONE (2021)“…As such it offers robust empirical evidence to enable coaches, performance analysts and players to move beyond anecdote, in order to appreciate the potential effect of various and varying offensive, defensive and contextual variables on field-goal success.…”
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Sports performance analysis and the analyst in elite wheelchair basketball
Francis, J.Published 2018“…Sportliche Leistungsanalyse und der Analyst im Spitzenbereich des Rollstuhlbasketballs…”
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Modelling the relationship between match outcome and match performances during the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup: A quantile regression analysis
Zhang, S., Gomez, M. A., Yi, Q., Dong, R., Leicht, A., Lorenzo, A.Published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2020)“…Our results highlight QR modelling as a potentially superior tool for performance analysts and coaches to design and monitor technical-tactical plans during match-play. …”
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Performance profiles and opposition interaction during game-play in elite basketball: evidences from National Basketball Association
Zhang, S., Lorenzo, A., Zhou, C., Cui. Y., Gonçalves, B., Gómez, M. A.Published in International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport (2019)“…The findings provide references for coaches and performance analysts to design training plans accounting for quality of teams and oppositions.…”
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Match analysis in handball: A systematic review
Ferrari, W. R., Sarmento, H., Vaz, V.Published in Montenegrin Journal of Sports Science and Medicine (2019)“…This systematic review can provide useful information on potential lines of research for performance analysts in the field of handball match analysis.…”
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Performance analysis in team sports
Passos, P., Araujo, D., Volossovitch, A.Published 2017“…Performance Analysis in Team Sports is an essential companion for any course or research project on sports performance analysis or sports coaching, and an invaluable reference for professional analysts.…”
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Basketball feint and non-verbal communication: empirical framework
Raiola, G.Published in Journal of Human Sport & Exercise (2015)“…Method is the observation by descriptive research of three experts: coach of team, experts of body communication and performance analyst. Results show some interested aspects. The body feint is always a deliberate attempt to deceive the opponent to gain an advantage in the context of the game, moreover, it is the basis of the game of basketball, along one players against one, on which is built the complex process of acquisition of tactical advantages over opponents. …”
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Learning long-term planning in basketball using hierarchical memory networks
Zheng, S., You, Y., Lucey, P.Published in Proceedings of the KDD-16 Workshop on Large-Scale Sports Analytics (2016)“…We showcase our approach in a case study on modeling basketball player trajectories, and show that it generates significantly more realistic trajectories compared to non-hierarchical baselines as judged by professional sports analysts. …”