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Capturing homeostatic behaviour in elite football teams: Synchronisation tenden...
Santos, R.; Garganta, J.; Lopes, R. J.; Davids, K.; Ribeiro, J.This study, investigating the collective homeostasis model, explores the importance of understanding both individual and collective behaviours in analysis of team performance in sport. Rooted in ecological dynamics, this model views collective behaviours in sports teams as a homeostatic process, with structural integrity of performance empowered through synergistic actions at multiple levels. At the microlevel,...
A multilevel hypernetworks approach to capture meso-level synchronisation proce...
Ribeiro, J.; Lopes, R. J.; Silva, P.; Araújo, D.; Barreira, D.; Davids, K.; Ramos, J.; Maia, J.; Garganta, J.Understanding team behaviours in sports performance requires understanding the interdependencies established between their levels of complexity (micro-meso-macro). Previously, most studies examined interactions emerging at micro- and macro-levels, thus neglecting those emerging at a meso-level (reveals connections between player and team levels, depicted by the emergence of coordination in specific sub-groups o...
A multilevel hypernetworks approach to capture properties of team synergies at ...
Ribeiro, J.; Silva, P.; Davids, K.; Araújo, D.; Ramos, J.; Lopes, R. J.; Garganta, J.Previous work has sought to explain team coordination using insights from theories of synergy formation in collective systems. Under this theoretical rationale, players are conceptualised as independent degrees of freedom, whose interactions can become coupled to produce team synergies, guided by shared affordances. Previous conceptualisation from this perspective has identified key properties of synergies, the...
The role of hypernetworks as a multilevel methodology for modelling and underst...
Ribeiro, J.; Davids, K.; Araújo, D.; Silva, P.; Ramos, J.; Lopes, R. J.; Garganta, J.Despite its importance in many academic fields, traditional scientific methodologies struggle to cope with analysis of interactions in many complex adaptive systems, including team sports. Inherent features of such systems (e.g. emergent behaviours) require a more holistic approach to measurement and analysis for understanding system properties. Complexity sciences encompass a holistic approach to research on c...
Adaptive behaviours of attacking futsal teams to opposition defensive formations
Travassos, B.; Bourbousson, J.; Esteves, Pedro; Marcelino, R.; Pacheco, M.; Davids, K.This study evaluated tendencies towards flexibility/stability of coordinated behaviours in international futsal teams, considered as complex collective systems, according to changes in opposition defensive formations. Six games of two international futsal teams (Spain and Portugal) were selected for Social Network Analysis to capture the coordination tendencies that emerge in the tactical behaviours of players ...
Effects of manipulations of player numbers vs field dimensions on inter-individ...
Silva, P.; Esteves, Pedro; Correia, V.; Aguiar, P.; Davids, K.; Araújo, D.; Garganta, J.The relative space per player formulated in small-sided and conditioned games can be manipulated either by promoting variations in player numbers or by modifying field dimensions. In this study we analysed how the same relative spaces per player, obtained through manipulations of player numbers and field dimensions, influenced inter-individual coordination. The positional data (GPS, 10 Hz) of 24 U-15 yrs perfor...
Proximity-to-goal as a constraint on patterns of behaviour in attacker-defender...
Headrick, J.; Renshaw, I.; Araujo, D.,; Passos, P.; Fernandes, O.; Davids, K.Abstract The aim of this study was to determine whether spatiotemporal interactions between footballers and the ball in 1 vs. 1 sub-phases are influenced by their proximity to the goal area. Twelve participants (age 15.3 +/- 0.5 years) performed as attackers and defenders in 1 vs. 1 dyads across three field positions: (a) attacking the goal, (b) in midfield, and (c) advancing away from the goal area. In each po...