The PITCH study: pitcher injuries during the first 30 days of the coronavirus disease 2019 halted Major League Baseball season by Kirk H. Bonner, MD, MEd, Jack K. Haberl, Steven C. Kirshblum, MD, Humaira Ashraf, MD

“…Alterations to preseason training and regular season play in the 2020 MLB season due to coronavirus disease 2019 may have been particularly disadvantageous to professional pitchers who are positioned at baseline, the most injury prone position.…”
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Effects of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Body Composition and Bioelectrical Phase Angle in Serie A Soccer Players: A Comparison of Two Consecutive Seasons by Francesco Campa, Tindaro Bongiovanni, Athos Trecroci, Alessio Rossi, Gianpiero Greco, Giulio Pasta, Giuseppe Coratella

“…After the same period during the regular season, FM% and muscle mass did not change (<i>p</i> > 0.05), while the PhA increased (95%CI = 0.01/0.22; ES = 0.63). …”
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Determining tourist’s carrying capacity based on ecological approach in Tunku Abdul Rahman Park, Malaysia by Nasrulhakim Maidin, B. Mabel Manjaji-Matsumoto, M. Rafiee Asdari, Elvin Michael Bavoh, Noorannezza Junsin, Vanielie Terrence Justine

“…It shows that Festive season recorded the highest ECC, followed by High Season and Regular Season. The ECC obtained was suggested to be implemented to TARP management as to preserve and sustain the ecological value of the Park.…”
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Hungarian male water polo players’ body composition can predict specific playing positions and highlight different nutritional needs for optimal sports performance by Péter Fritz, Réka Fritz, Lívia Mayer, Boglárka Németh, Judit Ressinka, Pongrác Ács, Csilla Oláh

“…Methods In the present study, we determined the anthropometric and body composition characteristics, dietary habits and laboratory parameters of elite adult male water polo players (n = 19) before the start of the championship and at the end of the regular season, which meant a 4-month intervention period. …”
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Recruitment dynamics of eight fishery species in the northwest Mediterranean Sea by Josep Lloret, Jordi Lleonart

“…The results show that three species or groups of species (Mullus barbatus and M. surmuletus, Eledone cirrhosa and Loligo vulgaris) recruited mostly during a well-defined and regular season, while recruitment of the rest of species (Merluccius merluccius, Micromesistius poutassou, Phycis blennoides, Sepia officinalis and Trisopterus minutus capelanus) took place all year round, though with seasonal peaks. …”
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Trends in NBA and Euroleague basketball: Analysis and comparison of statistical data from 2000 to 2017. by Radivoj Mandić, Saša Jakovljević, Frane Erčulj, Erik Štrumbelj

“…Differences are even smaller after we adjust for game length and when playoff NBA basketball is considered instead of regular season basketball. The differences in factors that contribute to success are also very small-(Oliver's) four factors derived from box-score statistics explain most of the variability in team success even if the coefficients are determined for both competitions simultaneously instead of each competition separately. …”
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The effect of omega-3 fatty acids on a biomarker of head trauma in NCAA football athletes: a multi-site, non-randomized study by Jeffery L. Heileson, Anthony J. Anzalone, Aaron F. Carbuhn, Andrew T. Askow, Jason D. Stone, Stephanie M. Turner, Lyn M. Hillyer, David W. L. Ma, Joel A. Luedke, Andrew R. Jagim, Jonathan M. Oliver

“…Blood was sampled at specific times throughout pre- and regular season coincident w ith changes in intensity, physical contact, and changes in the incidence and severity of head impacts. …”
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COVID-19-related jock tax revenue losses in US states by Douglas Belleville, Richard J. Cebula, G. Jason Jolley, Clara Bone

“…It finds that US states (along with the District of Columbia) stand to lose a combined nearly US$307 million in jock tax collections if the MLB and NFL seasons are cancelled and the suspended NBA regular season games are not made up due to the COVID-19 crisis. …”
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Tooth for a tooth: Does fighting serve as a deterrent to greater violence in the modern NHL by Michael R. Betz

“…I examine data on all regular season penalties from 2010–2019 to determine whether fighting and the threat of fighting is empirically related the level of violence in NHL games. …”
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Tooth for a tooth: Does fighting serve as a deterrent to greater violence in the modern NHL. by Michael R Betz

“…I examine data on all regular season penalties from 2010-2019 to determine whether fighting and the threat of fighting is empirically related the level of violence in NHL games. …”
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Preliminary results on organization on the court, physical and technical performance of Brazilian professional futsal players: comparison between friendly pre-season and official m... by Luiz Henrique Palucci Vieira, Sera N. Doğramaci, Ricardo Augusto Barbieri, Fabio Milioni, Felipe Arruda Moura, Vitor Luiz de Andrade, Guilherme Manna Cesar, Paulo Roberto Pereira Santiago

“…Future studies should verify whether pre-season tournaments reproduce similar demands to a regular season official match.…”
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The absence of fans removes the home advantage associated with penalties called by National Hockey League referees. by Joël Guérette, Caroline Blais, Daniel Fiset

“…In order to generalize these results, we took advantage of the extension of the pandemic and the unusual game setting it provided to observe the behavior of referees during the 2020-2021 regular season. Again, using data from the National Hockey League (n = 1639), but also expanding our sample to include Canadian Hockey League games (n = 1709), we also find that the advantage given to the home team by referees when in front of a crowd fades in the absence of spectators. …”
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Agronomic performance of cotton and soybean cultivated under different cover crops and lime and gypsum doses by Leila Benart, Cassiano Garcia Roque, Cid Naudi da Silva Campos, Renato de Melo Prado, Rafael Gonçalves Vilela, Paulo Eduardo Teodoro

“…The first experiment consisted of cotton cultivated in the off-season, and the second, of soybean cultivated in the regular season. The experiment was carried out under three plant residues (Urochloa ruziziensis, Pennisetum glaucum, and fallow area), combined with lime and gypsum doses. …”
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Major League Baseball during the COVID-19 pandemic: does a lack of spectators affect home advantage? by Yung-Chin Chiu, Chen-Kang Chang

“…A total of 13,044 regular-season games (898 in 2020 and 12,146 in 2015–2019) were analyzed. …”
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Comparison of In-game External Load Metrics Among Positions and Between Halves for Division I Collegiate Women’s Lacrosse Athletes by Justin Kilian, Kristen Snyman, Theresa Miyashita

“…An NCAA Division I women’s lacrosse team was recruited to wear triaxal accelerometers and GPS units during five non-conference games during the 2020 regular season.  The external load metrics evaluated for this study included total distance, sprint distance (> 19 km∙hr-1), number of power plays (> 3 m·s-2), top speed, and PlayerLoad.  …”
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Simulating Defensive Trajectories in American Football for Predicting League Average Defensive Movements by Marc Schmid, Patrick Blauberger, Martin Lames

“…Deep neural networks are trained with a multi-agent imitation learning approach, using the tracking data of players of a whole National Football League (NFL) regular season. To evaluate the quality of the predicted movements, a formation-based pass completion probability model is introduced. …”
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Changes in White Matter of the Cervical Spinal Cord after a Single Season of Collegiate Football by Brian Johnson, Alexa E. Walter, James R. Wilkes, Linda Papa, Semyon M. Slobounov

“…4) at pre-season (before any contact practices began) and post-season (within 1 week of the last regular season game) intervals. Helmet accelerometer data were also collected in parallel throughout the season. …”
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Detection of Ice Hockey Players and Teams via a Two-Phase Cascaded CNN Model by Tianxiao Guo, Kuan Tao, Qingrui Hu, Yanfei Shen

“…The results for the regular season games of the 2019-2020 National Hockey League (NHL) covering all 31 teams are also presented to show the robustness of our model. …”
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Factors that Differentiate Winning and Losing in Men’s University Basketball by Kenneth Marius R. Raval, Jeffrey C. Pagaduan

“…Samples were gathered from the archival data of the 2019–2020 regular season of the league. Sixteen game-related statistics were analysed: two- and three-point field-goals (both successful and unsuccessful), free-throws (both successful and unsuccessful), defensive and offensive rebounds, assists, steals, turnover, blocks, second-chance points, fast break points, fouls committed and received. …”
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“This is fine”: the impact of blowouts on subsequent game performance in the National Hockey League (NHL) by Ravi Chachad, Sean Pradhan, Arman P. Medina, Arman P. Medina

“…In our study, we defined blowouts as outlying goal differentials for regular season games (i.e., a difference of approximately 6 goals between teams in a single game based on 3 standard deviations from the mean goal differential during the sampled period). …”
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