Match analysis is a performance-diagnostic procedure, which can be used to carry out systematic gaming analysis during competition and training. The analysis of team and racket sports, whether in competition, for opponent preparation (match plan), follow-up, or training is nowadays indispensable in many sports games at different levels.
This analysis nevertheless presents many open questions and problem areas: Which data should be used? Who manages the data? Who provides whom with which information? How is this information presented, digested, and applied? The more complex and anonymous the data management is, the more commercial, expensive, and uncontrollable information management and provision becomes.
Match Analysis: How to Use Data in Professional Sport is the first book to examine this topic through three types of data sets; video, event, and position data and show how to interpret this data and apply the findings for better team and individual sport performance.
This innovative new volume is key reading for researchers, students, and practitioners alike in the fields of Coaching, Performance Analysis, Sport Management, and related specific sport disciplines.
This analysis nevertheless presents many open questions and problem areas: Which data should be used? Who manages the data? Who provides whom with which information? How is this information presented, digested, and applied? The more complex and anonymous the data management is, the more commercial, expensive, and uncontrollable information management and provision becomes.
Match Analysis: How to Use Data in Professional Sport is the first book to examine this topic through three types of data sets; video, event, and position data and show how to interpret this data and apply the findings for better team and individual sport performance.
This innovative new volume is key reading for researchers, students, and practitioners alike in the fields of Coaching, Performance Analysis, Sport Management, and related specific sport disciplines.
"If you want to build a successful professional sports organization it is essential to pay attention to creating a winning culture. This includes the incorporation and integration of performance analytics and sports science data, which are invaluable tools for strategic competition preparation, game analysis, injury prevention and rehabilitation."
Don Smolenski, President, Philadelphia Football Eagles, Superbowl LII Champions
"As a professional squash player, I understand first-hand the importance of science and cognitive paradigms involved in world-class sports. If your goal is to be the best, you will have to check out the book on Match Analysis in order to appreciate systematic gaming analysis during competition and practice."
Amanda Sobhy, Professional Squash Player (# 1 USA, # 5 World Ranking)
"A unique overview of the very latest theoretical and methodological analysis possibilities of the identification of complex patterns and relationships associated with successful performance in 13 kinds of sport."
Raul Pelaez Blanco, Sports Analysis, Innovation & Technology Manager, Football Club FC Barcelona
"Especially as a former national coach, I know what extremely significant potential a professional match analysis has in performance soccer. The present book is the first to describe fundamental, novel and complex content in a simple and target-oriented way, not only in soccer."
Jürgen Klinsmann
Don Smolenski, President, Philadelphia Football Eagles, Superbowl LII Champions
"As a professional squash player, I understand first-hand the importance of science and cognitive paradigms involved in world-class sports. If your goal is to be the best, you will have to check out the book on Match Analysis in order to appreciate systematic gaming analysis during competition and practice."
Amanda Sobhy, Professional Squash Player (# 1 USA, # 5 World Ranking)
"A unique overview of the very latest theoretical and methodological analysis possibilities of the identification of complex patterns and relationships associated with successful performance in 13 kinds of sport."
Raul Pelaez Blanco, Sports Analysis, Innovation & Technology Manager, Football Club FC Barcelona
"Especially as a former national coach, I know what extremely significant potential a professional match analysis has in performance soccer. The present book is the first to describe fundamental, novel and complex content in a simple and target-oriented way, not only in soccer."
Jürgen Klinsmann