Soft-assembled multilevel dynamics of tactical behaviors in soccer
This study aimed to identify the tactical patterns and the timescales of variables during a soccer match, allowing understanding the multilevel organization of tactical behaviors, and to determine the similarity of patterns performed by different groups of teammates during the first and second halve...
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| author | Angel Ric Carlota Torrents Bruno Gonçalves Jaime Sampaio Robert Hristovski |
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| description | This study aimed to identify the tactical patterns and the timescales of variables during a soccer match, allowing understanding the multilevel organization of tactical behaviors, and to determine the similarity of patterns performed by different groups of teammates during the first and second halves. Positional data from twenty professional male soccer players from the same team were collected using high frequency global positioning systems (5Hz). Twenty-nine categories of tactical behaviors were determined from eight positioning-derived variables creating multivariate binary (Boolean) time-series matrices. Hierarchical principal component analysis was used to identify the multilevel structure of tactical behaviors. The sequential reduction of each set level of principal components revealed a sole principal component as the slowest collective variable, forming the global basin of attraction of tactical patterns during each half of the match. In addition, the mean dwell time of each positioning-derived variable helped to understand the multilevel organization of collective tactical behavior during a soccer match. This approach warrants further investigations to analyze the influence of task constraints on the emergence of tactical behavior. Furthermore, principal component analysis can help coaches to design representative training tasks according to those tactical patterns captured during match competitions and to compare them depending on situational variables. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-44ed08a0ae9b41afa493f478372b90472022-12-22T03:07:24ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782016-10-01710.3389/fpsyg.2016.01513213273Soft-assembled multilevel dynamics of tactical behaviors in soccerAngel Ric0Carlota Torrents1Bruno Gonçalves2Jaime Sampaio3Robert Hristovski4National Institute of Physical Education of Catalonia, University of LleidaNational Institute of Physical Education of Catalonia, University of LleidaUniversidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto DouroUniversidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto DouroFaculty of Physical Education, Sport and Health, Saint Cyril and Methodious UniversityThis study aimed to identify the tactical patterns and the timescales of variables during a soccer match, allowing understanding the multilevel organization of tactical behaviors, and to determine the similarity of patterns performed by different groups of teammates during the first and second halves. Positional data from twenty professional male soccer players from the same team were collected using high frequency global positioning systems (5Hz). Twenty-nine categories of tactical behaviors were determined from eight positioning-derived variables creating multivariate binary (Boolean) time-series matrices. Hierarchical principal component analysis was used to identify the multilevel structure of tactical behaviors. The sequential reduction of each set level of principal components revealed a sole principal component as the slowest collective variable, forming the global basin of attraction of tactical patterns during each half of the match. In addition, the mean dwell time of each positioning-derived variable helped to understand the multilevel organization of collective tactical behavior during a soccer match. This approach warrants further investigations to analyze the influence of task constraints on the emergence of tactical behavior. Furthermore, principal component analysis can help coaches to design representative training tasks according to those tactical patterns captured during match competitions and to compare them depending on situational variables.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01513/fullExploratory BehaviorPrincipal Component Analysiscomplex systemsinterpersonal coordinationtimescalesCollective variables |
| spellingShingle | Angel Ric Carlota Torrents Bruno Gonçalves Jaime Sampaio Robert Hristovski Soft-assembled multilevel dynamics of tactical behaviors in soccer Frontiers in Psychology Exploratory Behavior Principal Component Analysis complex systems interpersonal coordination timescales Collective variables |
| title | Soft-assembled multilevel dynamics of tactical behaviors in soccer |
| title_full | Soft-assembled multilevel dynamics of tactical behaviors in soccer |
| title_fullStr | Soft-assembled multilevel dynamics of tactical behaviors in soccer |
| title_full_unstemmed | Soft-assembled multilevel dynamics of tactical behaviors in soccer |
| title_short | Soft-assembled multilevel dynamics of tactical behaviors in soccer |
| title_sort | soft assembled multilevel dynamics of tactical behaviors in soccer |
| topic | Exploratory Behavior Principal Component Analysis complex systems interpersonal coordination timescales Collective variables |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01513/full |
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