Observational Tools to Collect Data in Team Sports

Team sports lead to permanent interactions between teammates. For that reason, the specific structure of interactions and team’s dynamics must be carefully analysed in order to improve the sports training and strategy used for the match. For that reason, the social network analysis has been used in the last few years to identify the properties of graphs and to measure the centrality levels of players and tactical positions in the collective organization and dynamics of team sports. Nevertheless, the match analysis based on social network analysis must follow some specific requirements. Therefore, this chapter aims to describe the required observational procedures for network analysis in team sports and to show some software to process the analysis and to extract the data to measure the network properties.

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