Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

The understanding that sports injury is the result of the interaction among many factors and
that specific profiles could increase the risk of the occurrence of a given injury was a …

Collective behavior is a hallmark of every living system and utilizing methods from statistical
physics (such as correlation functions) could aid in our understanding of their underlying …

The purpose of this study was twofold:(i) to analyze the seasonal variations in the physical
demands of Turkish Super League teams considering their status in the final rankings and …

Women's football is gaining supporters and practitioners worldwide, raising questions about
what the differences are with men's football. While the two sports are often compared based …

The aim of this study is to examine the most significant literature on network analyses and
factors associated with tactical action in football. A systematic review was conducted on Web …

Complex networks have been widely used in studying collective behaviours in soccer
sports, such as examining tactical strategies, recognizing team characteristics, and …

In performance analysis, and most notably in match analysis, generalizing game patterns in
a sport or competition may result in formulating generic models and neglecting relevant …

We quantified the spatial and temporal entropy related to football teams and their players by
means of a pass-based interaction. First, we calculated the spatial entropy associated to the …

Attacking tactical variables have been commonly studied in soccer to analyze teams'
performance. However, few studies investigated defensive tactical variables during match …