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Understanding effective tactics in Australian football using network analysis

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  • Christopher M. Young
  • Wei Luo
  • Paul Gastin
  • Jerry Lai
  • Daniel B. Dwyer

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Social network analysis (SNA) has been applied in soccer and basketball to assess how a team shares possession of the ball, which could be considered as an aspect of teamwork. The analysis of teamwork could provide the opportunity to identify tactical characteristics of team performance that are associated with winning. Ball possession data from each match in the 2009–2016 Australian Football League (AFL) seasons were analysed using SNA. Seven network measures (edge count, edge density, transitivity, average path length, degree centrality, betweenness centrality and eigenvector centrality) were derived. Significant differences (p

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  • Christopher M. Young & Wei Luo & Paul Gastin & Jerry Lai & Daniel B. Dwyer, 2019. "Understanding effective tactics in Australian football using network analysis," International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(3), pages 331-341, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpanxx:v:19:y:2019:i:3:p:331-341
    DOI: 10.1080/24748668.2019.1605562
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    1. Beheshtian-Ardakani, Arash & Salehi, Mostafa & Sharma, Rajesh, 2023. "CMPN: Modeling and analysis of soccer teams using Complex Multiplex Passing Network," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 174(C).

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