In 2002, in a seminal article, Bandt and Pompe proposed a new methodology for the
analysis of complex time series, now known as Ordinal Analysis. The ordinal methodology is …

With the rapid growth of information technology and sports, a large amount of sports social
network data has emerged. Sports social network data contains rich entity information about …

In volleyball games, we define a rally as the succession of events observed since the ball is
served until one of the two teams on the court scores the point. In this process, athletes …

Abstract The" Big Five" European football leagues, comprising England's Premier League,
Germany's Bundesliga, Spain's La Liga, Italy's Serie A, and France's Ligue 1, command …

This study applies complexity sciences to analyze the game of Padel. Data from 18
professional matches were collected, and the probability distributions of the total number of …

In this article, we study the dynamics of marking in football matches. To do this, we survey
and analyze a database containing the trajectories of players from both teams on the field of …

In this article, we study the decision-making process of chess players by using a chess
engine to evaluate the moves across different pools of games. We quantify the decisiveness …