Using Network Science to Analyse Football Passing Networks: Dynamics, Space, Time, and the Multilayer Nature of the Game

Frontiers in Psychology

Javier M. Buldú¹ 

关键词: soccer;    passing networks;    network science;    entropy;    complexity;    multilayer networks;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01900

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

During the last decade, Network Science has become one of the most active fields in applied physics and mathematics (Newman, 2010). From all its possible applications, in this Opinion paper we are concerned about the analysis of one of the most extended sports, football (soccer in U.S. terminology) (Sumpter, 2016), since it allows addressing different aspects of the team organization and performance not captured by classical analyses based on the performance of individual players. The reason behind relies on the complex nature of the game, which, paraphrasing the foundational paradigm of complexity sciences “can not be analyzed by looking at its components (i.e., players) individually but, on the contrary, considering the system as a whole” or, in the classical words of after-match interviews “it's not just me, it's the team.”.

【 授权许可】

CC BY