Bolt, R. (Ruben) (2021) The relationship between the tactical behaviour of subgroups and the dangerousity of attacks in association football. thesis, Sport Sciences.
Full text available on request.Abstract
Tactical behaviour analysis in association football can benefit from a dynamical systems framework. Such a framework describes football as complex dynamical systems that consists of subgroups (e.g. defenders, midfielders and attackers) which share a similar aim (e.g. score goals or defend). To achieve their goal, teams aim to control the space in certain zones of the pitch so that their players are more likely to score goals. The current study aims to analyse two modes (synchronous vs. non-synchronous) of subgroup tactical behaviours to the likeliness to score during an attack. To facilitate this spatiotemporal analysis, formation of teams were dynamically calculated using a KMeans algorithm and players were subsequently dynamically allocated to subgroups. Relative phases between subgroup centroids were calculated to assess the synchrony of attacks and the likelihood to score during an attack was calculated using the dangerousity metric. The analysis of 43 Dutch Eredivisie matches yielded a total of 7,892 attacks of which 6,249 were synchronous and 1,580 where non-synchronous. Results indicate that non-synchronous attacks yielded significantly higher dangerousity values compared to synchronous attacks (p <.01). Additional analysis between different subgroup couplings indicate that non-synchronous couplings with the defending subgroup yielded significantly higher dangerousity values, indicating that attacks that destabilise the defending subgroup have a higher probability to score goals. This study was the first to analyse two different spatiotemporal tactical behaviours to the performance of attacks, thereby revealing insight into the outcome of these behaviours. Keywords: Association football, Tactical performance, Tracking data, Subgroup coupling, Spatiotemporal
| Item Type: | Thesis (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Supervisor name: | Kempe, dr. M. |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 11 May 2022 10:24 |
| Last Modified: | 11 May 2022 10:24 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3287 |
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