Analysis of Curling Team Strategy and Tactics using Curling Informatics

Otani, Hiromu; Masui, Fumito; Hirata, Kohsuke; Yanagi, Hisako; Ptaszyński, Michał

doi:10.5220/0006044601820187

Cited by 6 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In addition, we (Otani et al, 2016) analyzed game information of the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 and confirmed that correlation of the world national top level was lower than the Japanese top level and that the selected strategies/tactics and psychological pressure on the opponent team had an impact on game result .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 65%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Advances in Curling Game Information Analysis by Considering Starting Position

Otani¹,

Masui²,

Yanagi³

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Japanese curling teams have been recently preparing for Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2018. In curling, there are three factors influencing game performance: physical factor, human factor, and strategic/tactical factor. The strategic/tactical factor is considered as the most important at top level. To support the strategic/tactical factor, we proposed the concept of Curling Informatics. As the first step of Curling Informatics we developed a digital scorebook iCE for digital collection of game information, storing it in a database and performing further analysis to improve player performance. In this article, we further contribute to this project by analyzing game information of world national top level teams. We have previously confirmed that correlation between shot accuracy and game score could differ with the team level or position. We also found out that selected tactics and psychological pressure on opponent team has impact on game result. However, previous analyses disregarded the order of teams in play, which could result in confusion of strategic tendencies or play characteristics. In this paper, we carried out analysis of correlations of shot scores considering whether the teams started as the first or the second. We did this to specify the process of how the team strategy/tactics influences game results.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 65%

“…Otani et al analyzed correlation of 93 games in Sochi Winter Olympics 2014 to verify the above assumption (Otani et al, 2016). As a result, they confirmed that there is a strong correlation between the difference in shot accuracies and the difference in game scores.…”

Section: Related Researchmentioning

confidence: 91%

Advances in Curling Game Information Analysis by Considering Starting Position

Otani¹,

Masui²,

Yanagi³

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…When the literature is reviewed, it is seen that research on curling are related to sports psychology (Westlund Stewart and Hall, 2017;Tamminen and Crocker, 2013;Collins and Durand-Bush, 2010, 2014Paquette and Sullivan, 2012;Shank and Yves, 2013;Stewart and Hall, 2016), engineering (Buckingham et al, 2006;Lee et al, 2019;Gwon et al, 2020;Heo and Kim, 2013;Ito and Kitasei, 2015;Kawamura et al, 2015;Masui et al, 2016), sweeping (Bradley, 2009;Kim et al, 2021;Yanagi et al, 2008;, hammer (Kostuk and Willoughby, 2006;Ahmad et al, 2016;David, 2012) and strategy (Willoughby and Kostuk, 2005;Otani et al, 2016;Willoughby and Kostuk, 2004). However, no study has been found on the revised FGZ rule in order to increase the excitement in curling and attract more people's attention.…”

Section: Figure 1 Free Guard Zone Shown In Shaded Areamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to the strategy determined before the end, or the current position of the rocks, the teams can throw their stones into the house, remove the opponent's rocks from the game, move them away from the house or place their own rocks as guards for the next moves (Neyedly, 2012). At the conclusion of the end (when 16 stone have been delivered) the object is to count as many stones as possible closer to the center of the house than the opponent's stone nearest to the center of the house (Otani et al, 2016). The hammer shot is an extremely important factor as scoring is made after the hammer which is the final shot of the end (Ahmad et al, 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Free Guard Zone Rule Modification on the Game of Curling

AĞDUMAN,

BEDİR

2023

MJSS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Free Guard Zone (FGZ) rule, one of the most important elements that has been applied in the sport of curling for the last 30 years, was modified by the World Curling Federation in 2018 to add more excitement to the game. With the modification of the FGZ rule it is expected that the games will be played more competitively. The aim of this research is to examine the changes in various parameters such as the points generated per game, number of blank ends, total ends played, big ends and the extra end situation after the revised FGZ rule. Within the scope of the study elite level international competitions (Olympic Games, World and European Curling Championships) played for 3 years before (844 games) and after (908 games) the FGZ rule in the womens and mens category were evaluated. The data was taken from the Historical Results section of the World Curling Federation web page. Independent Sample t test was run in JASP 0.15.0.0 statistical analysis program. The level of significance was taken as p

show abstract

“…One is to provide strategic advice by experts after statistics, and the other is to use computer algorithms. The curling data collection and analysis system proposed by Wang Xuefeng et al [1], the curling simulation system named "Digital Curling" designed by Ito et al [10] in 2015, and the portable digital scorebook (ICE) designed by Fumito Masui et al [11] can record game information for subsequent curling strategy development [12,13]. However, there are not so many professional coaches to help athletes make decisions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy decision of curling in real competition scenes

Xiao

Wang

et al. 2022

Complex Intell. Syst.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Policy decision of curling refers to providing strategy suggestions for curling competition with the help of computers. Existing curling agents have achieved good results in the digital scenarios, but cannot make correct decisions when applied to actual competition and training scenes. In this paper, a strategies decision agent in the real scene has been proposed. The competition situation was acquired by a Situation-Aware Network and mapped by a Digital Extraction module. We designed Curling MCTS to explore the best strategy in continuous space. The effectiveness of our framework has been verified by experiments and evaluated by China’s wheelchair curling team at China Disabled Sports Management Center. With the help of our system, China’s wheelchair curling team trained effectively and won the championship in the XIII Paralympic Winter Games (2022, Beijing). In addition, a new curling target detection dataset was provided.

show abstract

Analysis of Curling Team Strategy and Tactics using Curling Informatics

Cited by 6 publications

References 0 publications

Advances in Curling Game Information Analysis by Considering Starting Position

Advances in Curling Game Information Analysis by Considering Starting Position

The Impact of Free Guard Zone Rule Modification on the Game of Curling

Policy decision of curling in real competition scenes

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About