The development of metrics for measuring the level of symmetry in team formation and ball movement flow, and their association with performance

Eliakim, Eyal; Morgulev, Elia; Lidor, Ronnie; Munk, Orin; Meckel, Yoav

doi:10.1080/24733938.2021.1919747

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“…2,31 Almost all papers, 107 out of 112, investigated a comparator to network measures. The most common of which were comparisons such as between players (n = 44), [32][33][34] teams (n = 51), [35][36][37] matches (n = 20) [38][39][40] and positions (n = 39). [41][42][43] Beyond these, spatial, temporal, predictive, location, goals and goal attempts were explored amongst other comparators.…”

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Cooperative networks in team invasion games: A systematic mapping review

Palmer

Novak

Tribolet

et al. 2023

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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Team invasion games are sports in which individual team members interact and exchange information to coordinate their behaviours and actions in pursuit of the common goal of winning matches. Researchers have used social network analysis to quantify the cooperative behaviours of sports teams (cooperative network analysis), yet this research exists across an array of disciplines and uses various methods. Therefore, accessibility for practitioners and researchers interested in using it to quantify team cooperation in team invasion games may be limited. This systematic mapping review aimed to identify, report and discuss research in this emerging research area. Articles were systematically searched in electronic databases and reference list scans resulting in 112 papers included. Football was the most studied sport ( n = 91), and passing was the most observed interaction between players within a sports team ( n = 107). This review further revealed a lack of consistency in reporting between the included studies with respect to nomenclature and network measures. A comprehensive map of the current literature on the use of cooperative network analysis in team invasion games is provided which can be used by practitioners and researchers tasked with or interested in analysing team performance.

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Cooperative networks in team invasion games: A systematic mapping review

Palmer

Novak

Tribolet

et al. 2023

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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“…While in the early years of the twentieth century teams presented formations with a high quantity of players in advanced lines (i.e., 2.3.5), the organization of players has notably changed to create more balanced structures between the offensive and defensive lines (i.e., 4.3.3, 4.4.2). In modern soccer, Journal of Human Kinetics, volume 88/2023 http://www.johk.pl the most common TFs include the highest number of players in defensive and midfielders' lines, while the 4.2-3.1 formation has been one of the most recurrent TFs in the last 10 years (Eliakim et al, 2022). The evolution of soccer, which is now a more intense game with a higher number of matches per year, seems to have given place to the use of a greater number of TFs.…”

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Evolution of Tactics in Professional Soccer: An Analysis of Team Formations from 2012 to 2021 in the Spanish LaLiga

González-Ródenas¹,

Moreno-Pérez²,

Campo³

et al. 2023

Journal of Human Kinetics

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The aim of this investigation was to explore the evolution of team formations (TFs) in a top national professional soccer league. A comparative analysis of a total of 3420 matches was performed in 32 professional soccer teams that competed from the 2012/13 to the 2020/21 season in the Spanish LaLiga. The frequency distribution of TFs across seasons presented a statistically significant change (p < 0.001). A 4.2-3.1 TF was most common from 2012/13 to 2016/17, while a 4.4.2 TF was most used from 2017/18 to 2020/2021. TFs such as 4.3.3 and 4.5.1 showed a relatively stable trend over the seasons. Overall, there was a reduction of TFs with 5 midfielders and an increase in the frequency of 2-forward formations (p < 0.001). When the ranking of teams was considered, a 4.3.3 TF was implemented with higher frequency by the Champion and teams that qualified for the Champions League (p < 0.05). However, a 4.2-3.1 TF was most frequent for teams qualified for the UEFA Europa League or teams that got relegated to an inferior category (p < 0.05). These findings highlight that teams competing in LaLiga evolved from the implementation of very few TFs led by the 4.2-3.1 TF, towards a more diverse scenario with a greater variety of tactical positional structures.

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