Cooperative passing network features are associated with successful match outcomes in the Australian Football League

Autor: Job Fransen, Rhys Tribolet, William Bradshaw Sheehan, Ignatius McBride, Andrew Roman Novak, Mark Langley Watsford
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching. SAGE Publications Inc.
ISSN: 1747-9541
Popis: Collective behaviour is an important component of team performance in team sports. This study used a binomial generalised linear mixed effects regression model to investigate the relationship between cooperative passing network characteristics and match outcomes of professional Australian Football League competition games across four seasons between 2016 and 2019. It divided a sample of 1629 observations into a training and testing partition used to develop and assess the validity of the model used in this study, respectively. The results of this study reveal that a team's connectedness is associated with the probability of winning Australian Football League games (Akaike Information Criterion = 1637.3, residual df= 1297, deviance = 1625.3). When most players within a team are involved in the team's passing network bidirectionally (i.e. a well-connected network; odds ratio = 1.053; 95% confidence interval: 4.2–6.5%, p
Databáze: OpenAIRE