Dynamic analysis of scoring performance in elite men's badminton according to contextual-related variables

The Influence of Technical and Contextual Variables of the Last Stroke on Point Outcome in Men’s and Women’s Singles Badminton

“…The players with well-prepared physical capacity may be more likely to disrupt the opponents' balance and achieve the winners during long rallies (Gómez-Ruano et al, 2020b). The positive relationships between the winners and the context-related variables of result against serve and the importance of set demonstrated that the players who scored points without serving were more likely to be linked to the point outcome of the winner, and players had a higher probability of achieving the winners during the key set and during the initial moments of the set (Gómez-Ruano et al, 2021). In addition, similar to the men's singles players, the forehand strokes, overhead strokes and defensive actions also had negative effects on the winners of the women's singles players.…”

“…The significant effect of the game status was only observed for the errors of the women's singles players; the probability of occurring errors was lower when a player was winning during a set. This could be partially explained by the fact that winning may bring a psychological advantage to the players during match play (Gómez-Ruano et al, 2021).…”

“…However, most of the studies were focused on observational analysis by comparing the technical variables of different groups (Abian-Vicen et al, 2013;Torres-Luque et al, 2019;Pérez-Turpin et al, 2020), which provided limited realistic information for coaches and players to prepare for competitions and training sessions. To date, little explorative analysis has been conducted that attempts to investigate the influencing factors of players' scoring performance (Gómez-Ruano et al, 2021).…”

“…The significant impact of match context-related variables on the players' match behaviors has been highlighted in the literature (Gómez-Ruano et al, 2013;Yi et al, 2019), and this research topic has been discussed in depth in other sports, including football, basketball, handball, and more (Liu et al, 2015;Prieto et al, 2016;Zhang et al, 2019;Yi et al, 2020a). However, it has only been very recently that the effects of context-related variables on badminton players have been emphasized by researchers (Gómez-Ruano et al, 2020a, 2021. It is obvious that players' performances during rallies may vary dramatically in dynamic situations, for example, the score line, the set number, game points, and the right of service, and these specific situations may place great physiological, psychological, and cognitive loads on players (Ghosh, 2008;Alcock and Cable, 2009;Alder et al, 2019).…”

A Binary-Entropy Analysis of the Relationship Between Scoring Structure and Match Outcome in Badminton

“…Nevertheless, different scoring states, in particular, the current score and points being ahead/behind the opponent’s, are indisputably essential to players’ strategies for winning a match, as well as the excitement of the game. Notably, the relationship between players’ scoring coordination and point outcome entropy using the temporal-related variables was investigated in Gómez et al (2021) ; also, match outcome prediction using Naive Bayes and Feature Weighting technique has been addressed in Sharma et al (2021) . However, the study of badminton from the perspective of scoring status has not yet been seen in the literature.…”