Members only Learning R Featured Basic Data Scraping and Visualisation Tutorial A tutorial of data scraping and visualising through my love for Shamrock Rovers F.C. and their journey so far in 2024-2025 Uefa Conference League.
Members only Football Are Physiological, Physical, Wellness and Load Decisive Markers of Starting Players? These findings suggest that factors beyond physical and physiological capabilities, such as tactical and technical skills, may play a more prominent role in determining starting status in this specific cohort.
Members only Mind Maps Featured Contextualised Physical Metrics: The Physical Demands Vary with Phase of Play during Elite Soccer Match Play Traditionally, these demands have been measured using aggregated match metrics, which provide an overall view of player performance but do not account for variations in intensity during specific phases of play.
Learning R Featured Player Performance in the League of Ireland Premier Division 2022-2024 Ranking the top 20 players based on performance metrics in the League of Ireland Premier Division 2022-2024.
Sports Science Featured Match Running Performance Preceding Scoring and Conceding a Goal in Men’s Professional Soccer Within the 5 min period before scoring a goal, teams covered significantly greater distance at low- and medium-intensity when compared to before conceding a goal.
Sports Science Featured ‘Setting the Benchmark’ Part 3: Contextualising the Match Demands of Specialised Positions at the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023 Given such accelerated rates of physical development in women’s football, it is crucial that the match-play characteristics are analysed and documented to offer practitioners more nuanced and actionable positional insights.
Members only Sports Science Featured The Comparison of Position-Specific Match Performance between the Group and Knockout Stage of the UEFA Champions League Several components contribute to successful performance in matches, where technical, tactical, and physical aspects play a crucial role. Analysing performance can offer a competitive advantage against opponents and assist in making key decisions regarding one's own team.
Members only Strength and Conditioning Featured ‘Setting the Benchmark’ Part 1: The Contextualised Physical Demands of Positional Roles in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Understanding the unique physical demands of international football can significantly impact the effectiveness of training programs and contribute to maximising player performance on the field.
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Members only Small Sided Games Small-Sided Games in Elite Football: Practical Solutions Without Goalkeepers to Replicate the 4-min Match-Derived Maximal Intensities The purpose of the study was to determine the area per player to replicate the maximal 4-min match-play period using small-sided or large-sided games lasting the same duration in elite football players.
Members only Small Sided Games Small-Sided Games in Elite Football: Practical Solutions With Goalkeepers to Replicate the 4-min Match-Derived Maximal Intensities The purpose of the study was to determine the area per player to replicate the maximal 4-min match-play period using small-sided or large-sided games lasting the same duration in elite football players.
Members only Small Sided Games Small-Sided Games in Elite Football: Practical Solutions to Replicate the 4-min Match-Derived Maximal Intensities The purpose of the study was to determine the area per player to replicate the maximal 4-min match-play period using small-sided or large-sided games lasting the same duration in elite football players.
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