What are the changes in basketball shooting pattern and accuracy in National Basketball Association in the past decade? by Feng Wang, Feng Wang, Guohua Zheng

“…This study analyzes NBA game data from the 2011–2012 regular season to the 2020–2021 season. Field goal attempts are grouped into five categories by the shooting distance. …”
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Injury in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) From 2015 to 2019 by Hayden Baker, M.D., Andrew Rizzi, M.D., Aravind Athiviraham, M.D.

“…Methods: Using publicly available data on WNBA player’s injury history, we generated a database cataloguing the quantity, location, frequency, and longitudinal impact of injuries sustained during the WNBA regular season from 2015 to 2019. We analyzed the data using SPSS-25 data manipulation software to assess the number of injuries per athletic exposure. …”
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The Search for a Universal Influenza Vaccine: Possibilities and Limitations by E. P. Kharchenko

“…Relevance.Upon the unquestionable utility of regular season vaccination influenza vaccine effectiveness varies depending on how vaccinal strains to be in accord with seasonal circulating influenza strains, i.e. the influenza vaccines are virtually strain-spesific and not able to elicit broad, protective immune responses. …”
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Physiological Responses of Youth Players During Wheelchair Basketball Games by Ryan T. Conners, Jeremy M. Elliott, David L. Kyle, Stacy Solomon, Paul N. Whitehead

“…Additionally, each participant competed in two regular season youth WCB games while wearing a Polar Pro Team System heart rate (HR) monitor. …”
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Purposeful Heading Performed by Female Youth Soccer Players Leads to Strain Development in Deep Brain Structures by Jeffrey S. Brooks, Wayne Allison, Alexandra Harriss, Kewei Bian, Haojie Mao, James P. Dickey

“…Purposeful heading events were categorized by game scenario (e.g., throw-in, goal kick) for 60 regular season games (20 games per team). A total of 434 purposeful headers were identified. …”
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Seasonal Variation and the Effect of the Transition Period on Physical Fitness Parameters in Youth Female Soccer Players by Koulla Parpa, Borko Katanic, Marcos Michaelides

“…They completed laboratory testing three times: (1) at the beginning of the season (post-preseason), (2) at the end of the regular season (postseason), and (3) following the transition period (preseason). …”
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Positional Movement Demands during NFL Football Games: A 3-Year Review by Erin Sanchez, Leigh Weiss, Tyler Williams, Patrick Ward, Ben Peterson, Aaron Wellman, Jeff Crandall

“…Player tracking data were collected from 2018 to 2020 regular season games of the National Football League. …”
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Proposal of a New Parameter for Evaluating Muscle Mass in Footballers through Bioimpedance Analysis by Matteo Levi Micheli, Roberto Cannataro, Massimo Gulisano, Gabriele Mascherini

“…A total of 664 male footballers underwent bioimpedance assessment during the regular season. LMI was correlated with body cell mass (BCM) and phase angle (PA) to establish efficacy. …”
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Modeling the Keys to Team’s Success in the Women’s Chinese Basketball Association by Qing Yi, Qing Yi, Shaoliang Zhang, Wenxuan Fang, Miguel-Ángel Gómez-Ruano

“…A total of 136 matches (n = 272 teams’ observations) in the regular season of Women’s Chinese Basketball Association (WCBA; season 2020–2021) were analyzed using multiple linear regression (MLR) and quantile regression (QR). …”
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Application of Shear-Wave Elastography in the Evaluation of Hamstring Stiffness in Young Basketball Athletes by Paige Cummings, Nathan D. Schilaty, Takashi Nagai, Luca Rigamonti, Ryo Ueno, Nathaniel A. Bates

“…Subjects in the control group underwent regular season activities as directed, with no influence from the research team. …”
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<p align="justify">Un método probabilístico para las clasificaciones estadísticas de jugadores en baloncesto. (A probabilistic method to statistically classify players in basketbal... by José Antonio Martínez García

“…The method is based on a probabilistic approach to interpret the individual performance achieved by each basketball player at the end of the regular season. Therefore, each individual record is an estimate of the real value of the parameter, with the corresponding associated error. …”
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Differences In Player Load Of Professional Basketball Players As A Function Of Distance To The Game Day During A Competitive Season by Dennis Wellm, Christina Willberg, Karen Zentgraf

“… Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the dynamics of external training load (eTL), internal training load (iTL), and well-being status, during a regular season week with one game, and to examine the differential workloads of players depending on their distance from game day during a competitive season. …”
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The Demands of a Women’s College Soccer Season by Jeremy A. Gentles, Christine L. Coniglio, Matthew M. Besemer, Joshua M. Morgan, Michael T. Mahnken

“…Data was collected on 25 collegiate Division II women’s soccer players over an entire regular season (17 matches and 24 practices). ZephyrTM BioHarnesses (BHs) were used to collect tri-axial acceleration information and GPS derived variables for all matches and practices. …”
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Seasonal changes in physical capacities of basketball players according to competitive levels and individual responses. by Davide Ferioli, Andrea Bosio, James Zois, Antonio La Torre, Ermanno Rampinini

“…METHODS:Pre (T1) and post (T2) preparation period and during regular season (T3), the players completed a Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery test-level 1. …”
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Return to Play and Performance Measures for National Football League Athletes Following Operative Ankle Fractures by Jordan Robbins BS, Daniel Jupiter PhD, Vinod K. Panchbhavi MD, FACS, William M. Weiss MD, MSc, FRCSC, John C. Hagedorn MD, Jie Chen MD, MPH

“…Athlete demographics and regular season metrics were collected for the seasons before and after injury. …”
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Dietary Intake over a 7-Day Training and Game Period in Female Varsity Rugby Union Players by Claire Traversa, Danielle L. E. Nyman, Lawrence L. Spriet

“…Fifteen (nine forwards, six backs) players (20.5 ± 0.4 y, 167.1 ± 1.8 cm, 74.9 ± 2.9 kg) were monitored for a 7-day period (one fitness, two heavy training, one light training, one game, and two recovery days) during their regular season. The average EI throughout the week for all 15 players was 2158 ± 87 kcal. …”
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Epidemiology and injury trends in the National Basketball Association: Pre- and per-COVID-19 (2017-2021). by Lorena Torres-Ronda, Ignacio Gámez, Sam Robertson, José Fernández

“…Most injuries and missed games due to injury occurred from mid-season to the end of the regular season. The majority of both injuries and missed games were concentrated in the two central experience groups (from 6 to 15 years).…”
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Using deep learning to understand patterns of player movement in basketball by Nistala, Akhil

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The Performance Evolution of Match Play Styles in the Spanish Professional Basketball League by Miguel-Ángel Gómez, Ramón Medina, Anthony S. Leicht, Shaoliang Zhang, Alejandro Vaquera

“…Match-related statistics were gathered from all regular season matches (n = 2426) played during the period 2009–2010 to 2016–2017. …”
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Effects of Eccentric vs. Concentric Sports on Blood Muscular Damage Markers in Male Professional Players by Alfredo Córdova-Martínez, Alberto Caballero-García, Hugo J. Bello, Daniel Perez-Valdecantos, Enrique Roche

“…Circulating muscle markers were analyzed in two moments of the regular season: after a 20-day training (no competition) period (T1) and after a 20-day period of high demanding competition (T2). …”
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