The Case for Adopting a Multivariate Approach to Optimize Training Load Quantification in Team Sports by Dan Weaving, Dan Weaving, Dan Weaving, Ben Jones, Ben Jones, Ben Jones, Ben Jones, Kevin Till, Kevin Till, Kevin Till, Grant Abt, Clive Beggs

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Epidemiological Review of Injuries in Rugby Union by Jean-François Kaux, Marc Julia, François Delvaux, Jean-Louis Croisier, Bénédicte Forthomme, Damien Monnot, Marie Chupin, Jean-Michel Crielaard, Caroline Le Goff, Patrick Durez, Philippe Ernst, Sébastien Guns, Arnaud Laly

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The Comparison of Competitive Balance between Super Rugby (Sanzar) and English Premiership Rugby: A Case Study from 1996-2014 Season or Not Attractive – No People – No Money by Kuchar Robert, Martin Andy

“…The aim of this paper was to compare the competitive balance between Super Rugby league named SANZAR, which consist of three nations (New Zealand, Australia and South Africa) and English Premiership Rugby League in 1996-2014 seasons and compare them. …”
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A comparative analysis of the home advantage in handball and rugby as contact sports by Jaime Prieto Bermejo, Miguel Ángel Gómez Ruano

“…Home advantage values were higher than 50% in both leagues, with significantly higher values in the rugby league (65.12% compared to 59.65%). The greater importance of physical contact and aggressiveness in the game actions in rugby can be a factor to be considered in the higher home advantage values found in the rugby league. …”
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A comparative analysis of the home advantage in handball and rugby as contact sports by Jaime Prieto Bermejo, Miguel Ángel Gómez Ruano

“…Home advantage values were higher than 50% in both leagues, with significantly higher values in the rugby league (65.12% compared to 59.65%). The greater importance of physical contact and aggressiveness in the game actions in rugby can be a factor to be considered in the higher home advantage values found in the rugby league. …”
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Quantifying Fatigue in the Rugby Codes: The Interplay Between Collision Characteristics and Neuromuscular Performance, Biochemical Measures, and Self-Reported Assessments of Fatigu... by Mitchell Naughton, Mitchell Naughton, Scott McLean, Tannath J. Scott, Tannath J. Scott, Dan Weaving, Dan Weaving, Colin Solomon, Colin Solomon

“…The aim of this review was to (1) evaluate how post-match recovery has been quantified in the rugby football codes (i.e., rugby league, rugby union, and rugby sevens), (2) to explore the time-course of commonly used measures of fatigue post-match, and (3) to investigate the relationships between game-related collisions and fatigue metrics. …”
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Implementation of effective alcohol control strategies is needed at large sports and entertainment events by Mark Lyne, Andrew Galloway

“…Events included rugby, rugby league and cricket matches, motor racing, rowing, horse racing, an outdoor music festival, and food and wine festivals. …”
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Match demands of female team sports: a scoping review by María L. Pérez Armendáriz, Konstaninos Spyrou, Pedro E. Alcaraz

“…Eighty-six articles were eligible for inclusion in this review, with 40 in soccer, 23 in rugby (6 rugby union, 3 rugby league, and 14 rugby sevens), 8 in field hockey, 8 in basketball, 6 in handball, and 1 in futsal. …”
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Editorial: Fatigue and Recovery in Football by Neil Clarke, Mark Noon

“…The football codes (soccer, American football, Australian rules football, rugby league, and union and Gaelic football) are intermittent team sports with bouts of high-intensity activity interspersed with low-intensity activities or rest [...]…”
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Identifying Talent in Youth Sport: A Novel Methodology Using Higher-Dimensional Analysis. by Kevin Till, Ben L Jones, Stephen Cobley, David Morley, John O'Hara, Chris Chapman, Carlton Cooke, Clive B Beggs

“…To address this issue, this study used a novel higher-dimensional model to orthogonalize multivariate anthropometric and fitness data from junior rugby league players, with the aim of differentiating future career attainment. …”
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Parental safety concerns – a barrier to sport and physical activity in children? by Soufiane Boufous, Caroline Finch, Adrian Bauman

“…In boys, the most frequently discouraged sport was rugby league (23.2%), followed by rugby union (7.5%) and Australian rules football (2.8%). …”
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Contributors to negative biopsychosocial health or performance outcomes in rugby players (CoNBO): a systematic review and Delphi study protocol by Keith A Stokes, Ben Jones, James Brown, Kevin Till, Sharief Hendricks, Stephen D Mellalieu, Andrew Gardner, Gemma Phillips, Stephen W West, Phil Davies, Matt Cross, Joshua Stein, Sean Scantlebury, Éanna C Falvey, Sam McCormack, Jessica Wenlock, Sarah Whitehead, Mark Bitcon, Sharron Flahive, Rich Johnston, James Parmley, Carlos Ramirez

“…Within rugby codes (rugby league, rugby union and rugby sevens), within male and female cohorts across playing levels (full-time senior, part-time senior, age grade), this project aims to develop a consensus on contributors to negative biopsychosocial outcomes in rugby players (known as the CoNBO study) and establish stakeholder perceived importance of the identified contributors and barriers to their management. …”
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Improving Mental Performance in an Athletic Population with the Use of Ārepa^®, a Blackcurrant Based Nootropic Drink: A Randomized Control Trial by Natalie Gibson, Dane Baker, Alice Sharples, Andrea Braakhuis

“…The aim of the investigation was to test the effect of Ārepa^® a blackcurrant-based nootropic-drink also containing pine-bark and <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">l</span>-theanine (BC+), on mental clarity in a sport setting. Twenty-three rugby league players completed a cross-over design, randomized, double-blind, controlled trial. …”
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Retrospective Respect for Education - Male Australian Footballers retrospectively appreciate education post-matriculation by Ashnil Chandra Murray, Michael Grimley, Dipu Sebastian

“…Material and Method: Four rugby league,four rugby union and four Australian Rules footballers underwent life history interviews and showed clear prioristation of sport during school. …”
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Retrospective Respect for Education - Male Australian Footballers retrospectively appreciate education post-matriculation by Ashnil Chandra Murray, Michael Grimley, Dipu Sebastian

“…Material and Method: Four rugby league,four rugby union and four Australian Rules footballers underwent life history interviews and showed clear prioristation of sport during school. …”
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Overcoming the problem of multicollinearity in sports performance data: A novel application of partial least squares correlation analysis. by Dan Weaving, Ben Jones, Matt Ireton, Sarah Whitehead, Kevin Till, Clive B Beggs

“…In this paper we present a novel 'leave one variable out' (LOVO) partial least squares correlation analysis (PLSCA) methodology, designed to overcome the problem of multicollinearity, and show how this can be used to identify the training load (TL) variables that influence most 'end fitness' in young rugby league players.<h4>Methods</h4>The accumulated TL of sixteen male professional youth rugby league players (17.7 ± 0.9 years) was quantified via GPS, a micro-electrical-mechanical-system (MEMS), and players' session-rating-of-perceived-exertion (sRPE) over a 6-week pre-season training period. …”
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Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) - An Update and Overview   by Rowena Mobbs

“…An exposure-response effect has been demonstrated in American football along with case reports in high profile sports including Australian rules football, rugby union, rugby league, soccer, and ice hockey. Despite intense media interest in the professional contact and collision sports in which CTE has been demonstrated, CTE has been increasingly identified in a wide array of amateur sporting and also non-sporting environments including military related blast trauma, assault, and falls in this heterogeneous condition. …”
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The burden of hospitalized sports-related injuries in children: an Australian population-based study, 2005–2013 by Francisco J. Schneuer, Jane C. Bell, Susan E. Adams, Julie Brown, Caroline Finch, Natasha Nassar

“…Football codes such as rugby league/union and soccer combined represented nearly two thirds of the total (60%). …”
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Pacific identity discourses on Twitter: constructing cyberspaces of belonging by Tara Ross

“…ABSTRACTThis article investigates the performance of Pacific identities on Twitter during a high-profile cultural and sporting event, Tonga and Australia’s first-ever rugby league test match in late 2018. More than 9000 tweets were analysed using quantitative and qualitative methods to map different publics orienting to the event on Twitter, including a Pacific diasporic public that emerged through locative practices of identity and cultural performance. …”
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Wearable GPS Devices in a British Elite Soccer Academy Setting: A Foucauldian Disciplinary Analysis Of Player Development And Experience by Luke Jones

“…Previous research into the developmental implications of GPS surveillance in professional rugby league (Jones, Marshall, & Denison, 2016) has identified that there are some significant unintended consequencesof their use for elite athletes. …”
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