Author(s): Herrera-Diestra, J. L. [UNESP] ; Echegoyen, I. ; Martínez, J. H. ; Garrido, D. ; Busquets, J. ; Io, F.Seirul. ; Buldú, J. M.
Date: 2020
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/200718
Origin: Oasisbr
Subject(s): Football; Network science; Pitch networks; Team performance; Football; Football; Network science; Network science; Pitch networks; Pitch networks; Team performance; Team performance
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
We investigated the particular organization of Guardiola's F.C. Barcelona during season 2009/2010, using datasets from the Spanish National League La Liga. Specifically, we constructed the corresponding pitch networks, obtained from all passes successfully performed by a team during a football match. Pitch networks are composed of nodes consisting of particular subdivisions of the field, which are connected through links whose weight ωi,j corresponds to the number of passes made from region i to region j. We performed a multi-scale analysis focused on evaluating the properties of pitch networks at different scales, from a partition of the pitch into 2 × 2 to 10 × 10 areas. For each scale, we calculated a diversity of network parameters of F.C. Barcelona and its opponents during the whole season. Next, we compared the properties of F.C. Barcelona pitch networks with the networks of its rivals. Our results show how, depending on the spatial scale, there are statistically significant differences between F.C. Barcelona and the rest of the teams of the Spanish league. These differences are particularly significant at the clustering coefficient, the network average shortest-path, and the number of nodes occupied by a team for partitions with a high number of subdivisions.
UNESP-IFT ICTP-SAIFR Sao Paulo
CeSiMo Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Los Andes
Depto. Ingeniería Biomédica. Universidad de los Andes
Complex Systems Group Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos (GISC)
Laboratory of Biological Networks Center for Biomedical Technology, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
E.S.A.D.E. Business School
Departamento de Metodología F.C. Barcelona
Institute of Unmanned System and Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL) Northwestern Polytechnical University
UNESP-IFT ICTP-SAIFR Sao Paulo
FAPESP: 2016/01343-7
FAPESP: 2017/05770-0
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad: FIS2017-84151-P
