Identifying the effects from the quality of opposition in a Football team positioning strategy

Castellano, Julen; Álvarez, David; Figueira, Bruno; Coutinho, Diogo; Sampaio, Jaime

doi:10.1080/24748668.2013.11868691

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“…This redundancy comes to represent the idea that structurally different components of the system (i.e., changes to team line-up throughout the championship) like players that can play a similar role-even not being identical-with respect to the context. This is a synergistic feature of team behaviour, where the rival counts, mainly, needing to adapt to the particularity of that match [31], having repercussions on the variability experienced by players depending on the match, for example, in the physical demand. The results of the present study suggest that there is a strategic coherence in team SoP, where each preferential behaviour is located.…”

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“…Finally, together with the previous one, it would have been interesting to consider a greater number of contextual variables [9] (i.e., location, quality of the rival, etc.) that are known to condition the strategic proposals of the teams [7,31]. For this reason, in the future it would be interesting to apply this same SoP analysis taking into account the possible contextual variables that condition the development of the game, while knowing the effectiveness that these approaches have in relation to the score in that moment.…”

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Identification and Preference of Game Styles in LaLiga Associated with Match Outcomes

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The objective was to model the teams' styles of play (SoPs) in elite football and relate them to the match result. For this, the twenty Spanish first division teams in the 2016-2017 season were analysed, using nine interaction performance indicators (IRi). A principal component (PC) analysis was applied. From two PCs four SoPs were established: deep or high-pressure defending, and elaborate or direct attack. The SoPs were distributed according to average performance obtained throughout the championship. The connection between the preferred SoP and the final result was estimated. Teams with elaborate offensive styles and teams defensively minded got better results. In addition, most of the teams showed variability in their SoP. The applications of the study are (1) the IRi have served to identify SoP and can be used as a reference to optimize team performance;(2) teams should have a varied SoP repertoire, as well as being prepared to deal with different SoPs;(3) particular player profiles should be connected with the desired SoP when creating the squad and (4) clubs should develop a varied range of SoPs at their academies.

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Identification and Preference of Game Styles in LaLiga Associated with Match Outcomes

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“…However, teams may be inclined to engage in a more offensive game style 304 during home matches compared to away matches by positioning players higher up the field (Lucey, 305 Oliver et al 2013, Bialkowski, Lucey et al 2014. Higher ranked football teams may also display 306 a more expansive game style with greater values of length, width, and surface area during the 307 offensive phase of play (Castellano, Álvarez et al 2013, Castellano andCasamichana 2015). 308…”

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The influence of match phase and field position on collective team behaviour in Australian Rules football

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“…The purposes of practical performance analysis include tactical evaluation (Hughes, 1998) which can help players and teams to optimise their own playing styles as well as understand the strategies and tactics adopted by opponents. The study of successful tactics in sport has also received recent attention within academic research (Costa et al, 2011;Castellano et al, 2013;Tirp et al, 2014).…”

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Wicket loss and risk taking during the 2011 and 2015 Cricket World Cups

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2016

International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport

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The purpose of the current investigation was to determine whether there is an optimal strategy in one-day international cricket and whether there is an even distribution of wickets during a 50 over innings. The investigation included 92 matches from the 2011 and 2015 Cricket World Cups. An initial study used required run rate at the start of overs within second innings as an indication of strategy required to reach the target number of runs. This suggested that teams played optimally when 8 to 10 runs were required per over. The second study revealed that batting teams within the both innings lost fewer wickets and scored fewer runs during the first half of innings than during the second half. Despite winning teams within matches losing wickets significantly later than losing teams, this pattern of an increasing run rate and an increasing rate of wicket loss was observed for both winning and losing teams. Teams are not awarded any additional runs for having wickets remaining at the end of the 50 overs. International teams may be more successful if they are prepared to risk losing more wickets in the first half of innings in an attempt to score runs.

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Identifying the effects from the quality of opposition in a Football team positioning strategy

Cited by 60 publications

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Identification and Preference of Game Styles in LaLiga Associated with Match Outcomes

Identification and Preference of Game Styles in LaLiga Associated with Match Outcomes

The influence of match phase and field position on collective team behaviour in Australian Rules football

Wicket loss and risk taking during the 2011 and 2015 Cricket World Cups

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