Search Results - The Analyst
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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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Expected game value (xGV): a novel approach for strategic decision-making in rugby union
Chéradame, J., Carling, C., Pisseloup, M., Pinczon du Sel, N.Published in International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport (2025)“…As such, xGV provides valuable information to coaches and analysts and can help refine tactical decision-making and arguably represents a significant advance in rugby analysis by quantifying the value of the game at any given moment, enabling objective comparisons across teams and strategies.…”
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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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High-intensity action profiles between phases of play for an Australian A-League association football team
Hands, D. E., de Jonge, X. A. K., Livingston, G. C., Borges, N.Published in International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport (2025)“…Results highlight important high-intensity tactical actions in different phases of play and demonstrate the individualised nature of phases to the contribution of tactical actions. Analysts and coaches may use such data to compare the actions players perform in different moments of matches, and this may also assist in designing training practices.…”
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Mapping football tactical behavior and collective dynamics with artificial intelligence: a systematic review
Teixeira, J. E., Maio, E., Afonso, P., Encarnação, S., Machado, G. F., Morgans, R., Barbosa, T. M., Monteiro, A. M., Forte, P., Ferraz, R., Branquinho, L.Published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living (2025)“…Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the tactical performance analysis in football, offering unprecedented data analytics insights for players, coaches, and analysts. This systematic review aims to examine and map out the current state of research on AI-based tactical behavior, collective dynamics, and movement patterns in football. …”
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Decoding the influence of field surface, tactical positioning, and field zone on tactical networks in youth football
Brito, Â, Freitas, L.Published in Journal of Human Sport & Exercise (2025)“…This study provides valuable insights for coaches and analysts on optimizing youth soccer performance, highlighting the importance of considering field surface in tactical planning and training strategies.…”
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Factors affecting the running performance of soccer teams in the Turkish Super League
Plakias, S., Michailidis, Y.Published in Sports (2024)“…Performance analysis in sports is a rapidly evolving field, where academics and applied performance analysts work together to improve coaches` decision making through the use of performance indicators (PIs). …”
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The keys of pressing to gain the ball - Characteristics of defensive pressure in elite soccer using tracking data
Forcher, L., Forcher, L., Altmann, S., Jekauc, D., Kempe, M.Published in Science and Medicine in Football (2024)“…Recently, the availability of big amounts of data enables analysts to dive deeper into the constraints of performance in various team sports. …”
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How do the football teams play in LaLiga? Analysis and comparison of playing styles according to the outcome
Martin-Castellanos, A., Flores, M. R., Solana, D. M., Del Campo, R. L., Garrosa, F. N., Mon-Lorez, D.Published in International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport (2024)“…The use of crosses was identified for victories or defeats. Coaches, analysts and sport scientists could take these playing styles into account for analysis and match preparation.…”
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The characteristics of counterattacks in the Spanish league (La Liga) in 2021-2022
Michailidis, Y., Papadopoulos, P., Mandroukas, A., Metaxas, I., Metaxas, T.Published in The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness (2024)“…CONCLUSIONS: The study can help coaches and analysts to understand the characteristics of the counterattacks and adapt their training in a way to make their teams more effective, both in the attacking and defending phase.…”
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Effects of contextual and tactical dimensions on the creation of goal-scoring opportunities in U12 and U13 elite Spanish soccer teams
González-Rodenas, J., López, A. M., Gay, R. P.Published in International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching (2024)“…These findings are useful for soccer coaches and analysts, which can help them understand the key dimensions in the design of training sessions in youth soccer teams.…”
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Examining how data becomes information for an upcoming opponent in football
Mehta, S., Furley, P., Raabe, D., Memmert, D.Published in International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching (2024)“…Despite the presence of quantitative data sources, analysts tend to prefer annotated video data. Possible relations to previous experience and familiarity with data, coach-analyst preferences and biases are discussed. …”
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Science and soccer. Developing elite performers
A. M. Williams, P. R. Ford, B. DrustPublished 2023“…It is essential reading for all professional support staff working in the game, including coaches at all levels, physiotherapists, conditioning specialists, performance analysts, club doctors and sport psychologists. 1. …”
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Football intelligence. Training and tactics for soccer success
Teoldo, I., Guilherme, J., Garganta, J.Published 2022“…These coaches devote their time and energy to improve players` and teams` performances. In turn, match analysts, physiotherapists, psychologists, clinicians and the sport science team dedicate themselves to optimize resources that help boost the performance levels of the players, the coaches and the team. …”
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Analysis of playing styles in European football: insights from a visual mapping approach
Plakias, S., Moustakidis, S., Mitrotasios, M., Kokkotis, C., Tsatalas, T., Papalexi, M., Giakas, G., Tsaopoulos, D.Published in Journal of Physical Education and Sport (2023)“…These findings provide valuable information for coaches, analysts, and team scouts, assisting them in their respective roles. …”
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Data-driven analytics for decision making in game sports
Seidenschwarz, P. G.Published 2021“…Additionally, coaches and analysts have to work under an enormous time pressure and decisions have to be made very quickly. …”
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Identifying playing styles of european soccer teams during the key moments of the game
Plakias, S., Kokkotis, C., Moustakidis, S., Tsatalas, T., Papalexi, M., Kasioura, C., Giakas, G., Tsaopoulos, D.Published in Journal of Physical Education and Sport (2023)“…The findings of this study were classified in such a way as to provide a structured framework for analysts and coaches that can be used in the training process of all four key moments of the game.…”
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The effectiveness of direct corners in high level soccer depending on the type and the zone of delivery
Plakias, S., Kokkotis, C., Tsaopoulos, D., Moustakidis, S., Papalexi, M., Giakas, G., Tsatalas, T.Published in Journal of Physical Education and Sport (2023)“…For this reason, the corners are widely studied by both team analysts and researchers. This study analyzed the corners that were executed directly (i.e., corners that were not executed with a short pass) in the Greek Super League 2020-21. …”
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Exploring rugby coaches perception and implementation of performance analytics
Callinan, M. J., Connor, J. D., Sinclair, W. H., Leicht, A. S.Published in PLOS ONE (2023)“…However, few studies to date have explored coaches` perspectives of performance analysts successful integration into the high-performance environment. …”
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Analysis of offensive transitions of Barcelona based on the initial penetration after the ball recovery
Papadopoulos, S., Papadimitriou, K., Ispirlidis, I., Papadopoulos, D., Konstantinidou, X.Published in SportMont (2023)“…Coaches and analysts alike agree that offensive transitions are very important in modern football. …”