Nakakita, M. Nakatsuma, T.
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International Journal of Computer Science in Sport
In this paper, we proposed a new method of evaluating horse ability and jockey skills in horse racing. In the proposed method, we aimed to estimate unobservable individual effects of horses and jockeys simultaneously with regression coefficients for explanatory variables such as horse age and racetrack conditions and other parameters in the regress...
Donoghue, Peter O’ Kristjánsdóttir, Hafrún Halldórsson, Kristján Þorgeirsson, Sveinn
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International Journal of Computer Science in Sport
The men’s Handball World Championship commences with eight round robin groups of four teams before the “main round” of four groups of six teams. These groups of six each include the top three teams from pairs of initial groups. The tournament draw uses pots of eight which risks two teams in the top four appearing in the same group of the main round...
Brinkjans, David Memmert, Daniel Paul, Yannik Perl, Jürgen
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International Journal of Computer Science in Sport
In contrast to simple performance indicators in the practical application of quantitative analysis in professional soccer, the inclusion of certain contextual elements can improve both the predictive quality and interpretability of these. Therefore, the Success-Score is intended to identify the factors relevant to success by linking ball control an...
Sousa, Duarte Cardoso, Américo Noite, João Rodrigues, Ana Lopes, Helder Fernando, Catarina Prudente, João
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International Journal of Computer Science in Sport
Team handball is constantly evolving. Since the beginning of the century some changes has been introduced but no rule has been as controversial and not consensual as the one introduced in 2016 that allows the change of a goalkeeper for a field player (Empty goal) allowing teams to play 7 vs. 6 (Prudente et al., 2022). With this study we intend to a...
Baumgartner, N. Kranzinger, C. Kranzinger, S. Snyder, C. Stöggl, T. Resch, B.
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International Journal of Computer Science in Sport
In sports science, cardiopulmonary data is used to assess exercise intensity, performance and health status of athletes and derive relevant target values. However, sensors may produce flawed data and data may include a wide variety of artifacts, which could potentially lead to false conclusions. Thus, appropriate and customized pre-processing algor...
Horníková, Henrieta Skala, Filip Zemková, Erika
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International Journal of Computer Science in Sport
Change of direction speed, reaction time, sprint speed, and explosive strength are important factors that determine athletes’ performance in the majority of sports. From the practical standpoint, it is of interest to investigate to what extent they differ among athletes of team and individual sports. We compared 7 handball, 11 basketball, and 15 ma...
Schlenger, Justus Wunderlich, Fabian Raabe, Dominik Memmert, Daniel
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International Journal of Computer Science in Sport
In the past 20 years, performance analysis in soccer has accumulated a wide variety of key performance indicators (KPI’s) aimed at reflecting a team’s strength and success. Thanks to rapidly advancing technologies and data analytics more sophisticated metrics, requiring high resolution data acquisition and big data methods, are developed. This incl...
Johansson, Moa Atterfors, Johan Lamm, Johan
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International Journal of Computer Science in Sport
The Gothenburg Half Marathon is one of the world’s largest half marathon races with over 40 000 participants each year. In order to reduce the number of runners risking over-straining, injury, or collapse, we would like to provide runners with advice to appropriately plan their pacing. Many participants are older or without extensive training exper...
Khalid, Ruzelan Yusof, Muhammad Mat Rosli, Nurzahidah Che Nawawi, Mohd Kamal Mohd
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International Journal of Computer Science in Sport
Simulating and predicting tournament outcomes has become an increasingly popular research topic. The outcomes can be influenced by several factors, such as attack, defence and home advantage strength values, as well as tournament structures. However, the claim that different structures, such as knockout (KO), round-robin (RR) and hybrid structures,...
Supola, Bence Hoch, Thomas Baca, Arnold
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International Journal of Computer Science in Sport
NBA teams rely heavily on their star players, though an ever-increasing tendency shows that proper ball movement is key for building a successful offense. According to experts, one of the most crucial individual contributions for this aspect is ‘making the extra pass’ – meaning to pass on a decent shooting opportunity to create an even better one. ...
