RESEARCH ARTICLE
Eco-Dynamics Approach to the study of Team Sports Performance
B. Travassos, D. Araújo*, V. Correia, P. Esteves
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2010Volume: 3
First Page: 56
Last Page: 57
Publisher ID: TOSSJ-3-56
DOI: 10.2174/1875399X010030100056
Article History:
Received Date: 05/07/2009Revision Received Date: 06/10/2009
Acceptance Date: 01/11/2009
Electronic publication date: 29/4/2010
Collection year: 2010
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The main goal of performance analysis in team sports has been the identification of data frequencies or sequences of actions in a temporal line, based on the assemblage of numerous discrete variables. This focus may be deemed as not displaying the foremost team sport feature, i.e., the dynamics of the interaction between two teams. In order to better understand the dynamic patterns of the game, the methods commonly applied must be furthered in a functional perspective. Underpinned in the Ecological Dynamics approach to decision making in sport, this paper regards performance analysis as a process of synthesis and parsimonious explanation of game's functional nature. Accordingly, we argue the importance of the following three aspects: i) game must be viewed considering different levels of analysis; ii) there is a functional role of variability in players' behaviour that must be included in the analysis; iii) human behaviour is better understood if we consider how the dynamics reflects individual and collective perceptual-action couplings.
