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| Title |
Sports teams as complex adaptive systems: manipulating player numbers shapes behaviours during football small-sided games
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| Published in |
SpringerPlus, February 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s40064-016-1813-5 |
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| Authors |
Pedro Silva, Luís Vilar, Keith Davids, Duarte Araújo, Júlio Garganta |
| Abstract |
Small-sided and conditioned games (SSCGs) in sport have been modelled as complex adaptive systems. Research has shown that the relative space per player (RSP) formulated in SSCGs can impact on emergent tactical behaviours. In this study we adopted a systems orientation to analyse how different RSP values, obtained through manipulations of player numbers, influenced four measures of interpersonal coordination observed during performance in SSCGs. For this purpose we calculated positional data (GPS 15 Hz) from ten U-15 football players performing in three SSCGs varying in player numbers (3v3, 4v4 and 5v5). Key measures of SSCG system behaviours included values of (1) players' dispersion, (2) teams' separateness, (3) coupling strength and time delays between participants' emerging movements, respectively. Results showed that values of participants' dispersion increased, but the teams' separateness remained identical across treatments. Coupling strength and time delay also showed consistent values across SSCGs. These results exemplified how complex adaptive systems, like football teams, can harness inherent degeneracy to maintain similar team spatial-temporal relations with opponents through changes in inter-individual coordination modes (i.e., players' dispersion). The results imply that different team behaviours might emerge at different ratios of field dimension/player numbers. Therefore, sport pedagogists should carefully evaluate the effects of changing RSP in SSCGs as a way of promoting increased or decreased pressure on players. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 4 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 15% |
| Spain | 3 | 15% |
| United States | 2 | 10% |
| France | 1 | 5% |
| Finland | 1 | 5% |
| Comoros | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 5 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 11 | 55% |
| Scientists | 7 | 35% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 248 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 247 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 43 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 29 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 23 | 9% |
| Researcher | 18 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 16 | 6% |
| Other | 49 | 20% |
| Unknown | 70 | 28% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Sports and Recreations | 130 | 52% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 5% |
| Engineering | 5 | 2% |
| Psychology | 5 | 2% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 19 | 8% |
| Unknown | 73 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 May 2017.
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#2,810,467
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#156
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#42,593
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#9
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