Monitoring player fatigue status in the English Premier League

Finding the Signal in the Noise—Interday Reliability and Seasonal Sensitivity of 84 Countermovement Jump Variables in Professional Basketball Players

“…Demanding periods of training and competition have previously been shown to impact player health (22), injury risk (23), and cognitive (29) and physical performance (7,8) in team sport athletes. Although relationships between training or competition demands and changes in physical capacity have been widely investigated (8,32), there is a paucity of information describing athlete status over the course of a professional basketball season (i.e., the athlete's fitness or fatigue responses and their capacity to perform during competition (27)).…”

Establishing the Noise: Interday Ecological Reliability of Countermovement Jump Variables in Professional Rugby Union Players

“…These conditions are however, generally not feasible with professional athletes, as this would disrupt normal training routines. This issue has been addressed in professional soccer by evaluating players over 2 consecutive days, with the first a day before the start of preseason (28). As this approach may not be practical in all professional environments, further exploration of “ecologically valid” approaches to establish noise is warranted.…”

Reply to Lewin and O’Driscoll: Comment on: “Monitoring of Post-Match Fatigue in Professional Soccer: Welcome to the Real World”

“…This achievement is only to be congratulated and undoubtedly linked to a high level of stability (coaching and medical staff notably) over many years and a club manager who was at the forefront of the upcoming sports science era having already introduced a more systematic approach to preparing players in the late 1990s. The PMF research monitoring programme conducted by Thorpe and colleagues 3 at Manchester Utd FC is in our opinion another example of good practice and was no doubt aided by strong levels of club stability and recognition and buy-in by the club's coaching staff at that time. We share the same opinion as Lewin & O'Driscoll in that the way forward is through coach and player education (and we may add upskilling of the former).…”