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Author(s):  
Job Fransen ◽  
Rhys Tribolet ◽  
William Bradshaw Sheehan ◽  
Ignatius McBride ◽  
Andrew Roman Novak ◽  
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Collective behaviour is an important component of team performance in team sports. This study used a binomial generalised linear mixed effects regression model to investigate the relationship between cooperative passing network characteristics and match outcomes of professional Australian Football League competition games across four seasons between 2016 and 2019. It divided a sample of 1629 observations into a training and testing partition used to develop and assess the validity of the model used in this study, respectively. The results of this study reveal that a team's connectedness is associated with the probability of winning Australian Football League games (Akaike Information Criterion = 1637.3, residual df= 1297, deviance = 1625.3). When most players within a team are involved in the team's passing network bidirectionally (i.e. a well-connected network; odds ratio = 1.053; 95% confidence interval: 4.2–6.5%, p < 0.001), teams have a higher probability of winning. The centralisation of a team's passing network was not significantly related to match outcomes. The classification accuracy for the model associating network characteristics with match outcomes was 69%. Collectively, these findings suggest that Australian Football League-specific network features should be incorporated within existing performance analysis methods and can provide a useful, practical tool for coaches to measure collective performance during team practice.


2021 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Hajek ◽  
Morgan D. Williams ◽  
Matthew N. Bourne ◽  
Llion A. Roberts ◽  
Norman R. Morris ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Wing ◽  
Nicolas H. Hart ◽  
Callum McCaskie ◽  
Petar Djanis ◽  
Fadi Ma’ayah ◽  
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Abstract Background Australian Football is a fast paced, intermittent sport, played by both male and female populations. The aim of this systematic review was to compare male and female Australian Football players, competing at elite and sub-elite levels, for running performance during Australian Football matches based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). Methods Medline, SPORTDiscus, and Web of Science searches, using search terms inclusive of Australian Football, movement demands and microsensor technology, returned 2535 potential manuscripts, of which 33 were included in the final analyses. Results Results indicated that male athletes performed approximately twice the total running distances of their female counterparts, which was likely due to the differences in quarter length (male elite = 20 min, female elite = 15 min (plus time-on). When expressed relative to playing time, the differences between males and females somewhat diminished. However, high-speed running distances covered at velocities > 14.4 km·h−1 (> 4 m·s−1) were substantially greater (≥ 50%) for male than female players. Male and female players recorded similar running intensities during peak periods of play of shorter duration (e.g., around 1 min), but when the analysis window was lengthened, females showed a greater decrement in running performance. Conclusion These results suggest that male players should be exposed to greater training volumes, whereas training intensities should be reasonably comparable across male and female athletes.


2021 ◽  
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Author(s):  
Elise R. Facer-Childs ◽  
Luis Mascaro ◽  
Daniel Hoffman ◽  
Darren Mansfield ◽  
Sean P.A. Drummond ◽  
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