elite football performance Tag

10 Feb

Posted at 13:08h in Research

Why comparing football players without respecting their demarcation systematically distorts performance analysis in elite football https://youtube.com/shorts/arMpCYD-btc?feature=share Comparing players is a daily habit in professional football.We compare passes, sprints, accelerations, duels and shots.Dashboards look clean. Rankings look objective.Decisions feel data-driven. But a structural problem sits underneath these comparisons.A bias...

05 Feb

Posted at 13:49h in Research

Comparing players from different competitions is one of the most common practices in performance analysis. It is also one of the most misleading. https://youtube.com/shorts/U1YIO3pL-Ng?feature=share In professional football, physical metrics are often used as a shortcut to describe player capacity. Total distance. High-speed running. Sprint counts. These numbers...

23 May

Posted at 12:13h in Paper

Modern football is played at speed, but speed alone does not explain behaviour. Direction matters. This study goes deeper than traditional running metrics and looks at how fast players move and where they move in relation to the ball. It shows that player behaviour changes...