The Adaptive Behavior of a Soccer Team: An Entropy-Based Analysis
To optimize its performance, a competitive team, such as a soccer team, must maintain a delicate balance between organization and disorganization. On the one hand, the team should maintain organized patterns of behavior to maximize the cooperation between its members. On the other hand, the team&...
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| author | Yair Neuman Navot Israeli Dan Vilenchik Yochai Cohen |
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| description | To optimize its performance, a competitive team, such as a soccer team, must maintain a delicate balance between organization and disorganization. On the one hand, the team should maintain organized patterns of behavior to maximize the cooperation between its members. On the other hand, the team’s behavior should be disordered enough to mislead its opponent and to maintain enough degrees of freedom. In this paper, we have analyzed this dynamic in the context of soccer games and examined whether it is correlated with the team’s performance. We measured the organization associated with the behavior of a soccer team through the Tsallis entropy of ball passes between the players. Analyzing data taken from the English Premier League (2015/2016), we show that the team’s position at the end of the season is correlated with the team’s entropy as measured with a super-additive entropy index. Moreover, the entropy score of a team significantly contributes to the prediction of the team’s position at the end of the season beyond the prediction gained by the team’s position at the end of the previous season. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b42bff267f3b461d9f6229288ebd53cd2022-12-22T04:24:19ZengMDPI AGEntropy1099-43002018-10-01201075810.3390/e20100758e20100758The Adaptive Behavior of a Soccer Team: An Entropy-Based AnalysisYair Neuman0Navot Israeli1Dan Vilenchik2Yochai Cohen3Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105 Beer-Sheva, IsraelWales Ltd., 52522 Ramat-Gan, IsraelDepartment of Communication Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105 Beer-Sheva, IsraelGilasio Coding, 6458701 Tel-Aviv, IsraelTo optimize its performance, a competitive team, such as a soccer team, must maintain a delicate balance between organization and disorganization. On the one hand, the team should maintain organized patterns of behavior to maximize the cooperation between its members. On the other hand, the team’s behavior should be disordered enough to mislead its opponent and to maintain enough degrees of freedom. In this paper, we have analyzed this dynamic in the context of soccer games and examined whether it is correlated with the team’s performance. We measured the organization associated with the behavior of a soccer team through the Tsallis entropy of ball passes between the players. Analyzing data taken from the English Premier League (2015/2016), we show that the team’s position at the end of the season is correlated with the team’s entropy as measured with a super-additive entropy index. Moreover, the entropy score of a team significantly contributes to the prediction of the team’s position at the end of the season beyond the prediction gained by the team’s position at the end of the previous season.http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/20/10/758organization/disorganizationteam’s performancesoccerentropy |
| spellingShingle | Yair Neuman Navot Israeli Dan Vilenchik Yochai Cohen The Adaptive Behavior of a Soccer Team: An Entropy-Based Analysis Entropy organization/disorganization team’s performance soccer entropy |
| title | The Adaptive Behavior of a Soccer Team: An Entropy-Based Analysis |
| title_full | The Adaptive Behavior of a Soccer Team: An Entropy-Based Analysis |
| title_fullStr | The Adaptive Behavior of a Soccer Team: An Entropy-Based Analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Adaptive Behavior of a Soccer Team: An Entropy-Based Analysis |
| title_short | The Adaptive Behavior of a Soccer Team: An Entropy-Based Analysis |
| title_sort | adaptive behavior of a soccer team an entropy based analysis |
| topic | organization/disorganization team’s performance soccer entropy |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/20/10/758 |
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