International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport

2001 - 2025

Current editor(s): Peter O'Donoghue

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Volume 25, issue 1, 2025

Perturbations in elite female soccer matches: a conceptual and practical method to analyse variability and regularity between field zones and the spatial development of phase transitions pp. 1-18

Thomas Kisil Marino, Luciano Basso, Ryland Morgans, Umberto Cesar Corrêa and Alexandre Moreira

Effects of tennis racket swingweight on forehand speed and accuracy in youth players pp. 19-34

Gabriel Nicolau Llull and Gabriel Delgado García

Analysing short-term training load distribution in elite European basketball: an exploration under six head coaches pp. 35-46

Hugo Salazar, Enrique Alonso Pérez-Chao, Luka Svilar and Julen Castellano

Technical and tactical performance in professional female futsal players: a descriptive analysis depending on teams level and playing group pp. 47-58

Diego Hernán Villarejo García, Francisco Tomás González-Fernández, Markel Rico-González, José Pino-Ortega, Sebastián Del Rosso and Daniel Puche-Ortuño

Golf shot performance analysis: the effects of ground slope on weight transfer and shot characteristics pp. 59-68

Nejla Gerçek, Selda Uzun, Yaşar Tatar, İhsan Gencay Asan, Havva Burçe Göçmez and Muhammed Yusuf Kahraman

Reliability of a kinetic and kinematic assessment procedure for kicks in combat sports pp. 69-80

Johan Robalino, Túlio Sérvio José da Silva, Sávio Fernandes, Emerson Franchini, Bruno Mezêncio and Jacielle C. Ferreira

Are the peak accelerations and decelerations registered during the pro-agility test replicated during matches and training sessions? pp. 81-91

Hugo Silva, Fábio Yuzo Nakamura, Paulo Roriz and Rui Marcelino

Relationship between physical fitness parameters and match time motion performance in international footballers with cerebral palsy pp. 92-107

Iván Peña-González, Matías Henríquez, Juan José García-Hernández and Manuel Moya-Ramón

Match physical performance profiles in professional football: a comparative analysis among players’ positions in the European five top leagues pp. 108-128

Julen Castellano, Xabier Huarte and David Casamichana

Distribution pattern analysis of passing and receiving locations during the 2022 FIFA World Cup using the measure of spatial entropy pp. 129-143

Xiuyuan Xiong, Kuiying Deng, Jiale Wu and Yixiong Cui

Movement characteristics of international and elite domestic netball players during match-play pp. 144-161

Lois Mackay, Ben Jones, Cameron Owen, Thomas Sawczuk, Ryan White, Katie Denton and Sarah Whitehead

The influence of substitution strategies on the physical match performance of elite female field hockey players pp. 162-173

Martinique Sparks

Volume 24, issue 6, 2024

Determining the key performance indicators on game outcomes in NBA based on quantile regression analysis pp. 519-534

Wenbo Zhou, Pierpaolo Sansone, Zhiqiang Jia, Miguel-Angel Gomez and Feng Li

Analysis of players’ stroke performance relevance in tennis matches pp. 535-556

Han Gao, Wenming Liu and Hui Zhang

Does the utilisation of dolphin kicks during backstroke finishes impact swimming performance in pubertal swimmers? pp. 557-567

Konstantinos Papadimitriou and Nikos Papadimitriou

Competitive profile analysis according to playing positions of female handball players during the European Championship 2020 pp. 568-586

Juan C. Zapardiel, Iván Asín-Izquierdo, Carmen Manchado, Diego Marcos-Jorquera, Virgilio Gilart-Iglesias and Demetrio Lozano

Race strategies of young super-sprint triathletes during the 2022 World Triathlon races pp. 587-600

R Espejo, J Martinez-Sobrino and S Veiga

Longitudinal match running performance analysis of soccer in professional European leagues: A systematic review pp. 601-625

J. C. Ponce-Bordón, M. A. López-Gajardo, D. Lobo-Triviño, J. J. Pulido and T. García-Calvo

Are there meaningful changes in the performance of professional soccer teams from the first half of the match to the second? Evidence from the data of eight consecutive seasons of the Chinese Super League pp. 626-640

Liangzhu Feng, Paweł Chmura and Hongyou Liu

Profiling the acceleration and deceleration components in elite futsal players pp. 641-653

João Nuno Ribeiro, Yousefian Farzad, Jordi Illa, António Ferraz, Fabio Nakamura and Bruno Travassos

Understanding the futsal game moments through the eyes of futsal coaches: a comparison of expert and novice coaches pp. 654-665

M Rodrigues, N Leite, Jn Ribeiro, J Sampaio, D Araújo and B Travassos

Running performance of substitutes in the FIFA World Cup after the change in substitution rule: influence of match outcome, playing position and sex pp. 666-680

Xiaobin Wei, Rui Zhang, Abasi Maitiniyazi, Paweł Chmura, Morten B Randers and Peter Krustrup

Comparison of time-motion, heart rate responses, and training load measurement in Brazilian jiu-jitsu heavyweight and lightweight fighters: a cross-sectional study pp. 681-697

Victor L. Bassetti, João V. M. da Costa, Márcio F. Tasinafo Júnior, Gabriel F. A. Bertochi, Yan F. Foresti, Allan Z. Gomes and Enrico F. Puggina

Determinant actions in men’s professional padel performance pp. 698-713

Guillermo Romero, Jara González-Silva, Manuel Conejero and Carmen Fernández-Echeverría

Volume 24, issue 5, 2024

The relationships between age and race performance in women’s road cycling pp. 375-387

Arie-Willem de Leeuw and Leonid Kholkine

Dynamics of training and competition demands in top-class male rink hockey: a case study of a rink hockey European Championship pp. 388-402

António Ferraz, Pedro Duarte-Mendes, João Nuno Ribeiro, Farzad Yousefian, João Valente-Dos-Santos and Bruno Travassos

Probability prediction of groundstroke stances among male professional tennis players using a tree-augmented Bayesian network pp. 403-415

Jing Qiu Zhou and Yu Liu

The effects of cycling posture on exercise performance as determined by infrared thermography pp. 416-428

Shiuan-Yu Tseng, Yu-Kang Chang, Chin-Yen Tseng, Sin-Ling Dai, Chun-Hou Wang and Chung-Po Ko

The influence of ball carriage on change of direction speed in male club-level lacrosse players pp. 429-443

Paul W. Rose and Joe P. Warne

Developing cognitive and motor decision-making skills through tactical principles and small-sided games in youth soccer pp. 444-463

Guilherme Machado, Sixto González-Víllora, André Roca and Israel Teoldo

Analysing the manipulation of the number of players on tactical, technical, and physical performance in youth futsal pp. 464-478

Sérgio Adriano Gomes, Bruno Travassos, Henrique de Oliveira Castro, Filipe Manuel Clemente, Gibson Moreira Praça, Leandro Lume Gomes and Carlos Ernesto Santos Ferreira

Accuracy of a markerless system to estimate the position of taekwondo athletes in an official combat area pp. 479-494

Luíza dos Santos Banks, Paulo Roberto Pereira Santiago, Ricardo da Silva Torres, Donizete Cicero Xavier de Oliveira and Felipe Arruda Moura

Playing style of women and men elite table tennis players pp. 495-509

Ivan Malagoli Lanzoni, Matteo Cortesi, Gabriele Russo, Ziemowit Bankosz, Sławomir Winiarski and Sandro Bartolomei

Is there no place like home? home-court advantage and home win percentage vary according to team sex and ability in Spanish basketball pp. 510-517

Enrique Alonso Pérez-Chao, Raúl Nieto-Acevedo, Aaron T. Scanlan, Adrián Lopez-García, Alberto Lorenzo and Miguel Ángel Gómez

Volume 24, issue 4, 2024

A video-based time-motion analysis of an elite male basketball team during a season: game demands according to player position, game quarter, and actual time played pp. 269-284

Marco Gervasi, Giacomina Mennelli, Antonino Patti, Davide Sisti, Roberto Venerandi, Piero Benelli and Eneko Fernández Peña

Tennis serve volume, distribution and accelerometer load during training and tournaments from wearable microtechnology pp. 285-297

Thomas Perri, Machar Reid, Alistair Murphy and Rob Duffield

Relating external load variables with individual tactical actions with reference to playing position: an integrated analysis for elite futsal pp. 298-313

João Nuno Ribeiro, Farzad Yousefian, Diogo Monteiro, Jordi Illa, Micael Couceiro, Jaime Sampaio and Bruno Travassos

The emerging basketball discipline: unpacking game outcomes in the 3 × 3 basketball professional league based on performance indicators and contextual variables pp. 314-330

Kehang Chen, Daniel Memmert and Marc Garnica Caparrós

The role of the analyst: comparative analysis of applied performance analyst job advertisements in the UK and Ireland (2021-2022) pp. 331-360

John William Francis, Jamie Kyte and Michael Bateman

Performance metrics to predict national-level competition outcomes in a cluster of road cyclists pp. 361-373

Leonardo Cesanelli, Juan Antonio Fernandez Lopez, Thomas Lagoute, Berta Ylaite and Arvydas Stasiulis

Volume 24, issue 3, 2024

The effect of coach dismissal on team performance and match physical demands in Spanish professional soccer leagues pp. 187-203

J. C. Ponce-Bordón, M. A. López-Gajardo, J. Fernández-Navarro, R. López del Campo, R. Resta and T. García-Calvo

Introducing the technical individual contribution coefficient: a metric for evaluating performance in elite volleyball pp. 204-217

Carlos López-Serrano, M. Zakynthinaki, Daniel Mon-López and Juan José Molina Martín

Evaluation of physiological parameters and gaze behaviour of air pistol shooters related to performance outcomes pp. 218-229

Gülçin Güler, Deniz Şimşek, Seçkin Tuncer and Daniel Mon-López

Picking the length: investigating how bowling length influences batter decision-making in international men’s 50-over cricket pp. 230-240

Saumya Mehta, Ashwin Phatak, John van der Kamp, Mikael Jamil, Geert Savelsbergh and Daniel Memmert

The influence of the video assistance referee (VAR) on the English Premier League pp. 241-250

Rui Bao and Bo Han

Analysing Hawk-Eye ball-tracking data to explore successful serving and returning strategies at Wimbledon pp. 251-268

Anna Fitzpatrick, Joseph A. Stone, Simon Choppin and John Kelley

Volume 24, issue 2, 2024

Does a decade of the rally-point scoring system impact the characteristics of elite badminton matches? pp. 105-118

Daniel Hoffmann and Tobias Vogt

Club coefficients in the UEFA Champions League: Time for shift to an Elo-based formula pp. 119-134

László Csató

Is team-level injury analysis giving us the full story? Exploring a player-specific approach to analysing injuries pp. 135-145

Leah Bitchell, Victoria H. Stiles, Gemma Robinson, Prabhat Mathema and Isabel S. Moore

The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on ball possession performance in Spanish professional soccer leagues pp. 146-157

D. Lobo-Triviño, J.C. Ponce-Bordón, J. Díaz-García, R. López Del Campo, A. Doncel, J. Fernández-Navarro and T. García-Calvo

How hormones, vertical jump and perceived exertion change in clutch time. A season case study of an amateur basketball team pp. 158-169

José María Izquierdo, Juan Carlos Redondo, Diego Marqués-Jiménez, Antonio Zarauz-Moreno and Diego Fernández-Lázaro

Training practices used by elite sprint coaches pp. 170-185

Aarón Agudo-Ortega, Juan J. Salinero, Øyvind Sandbakk, Violeta Muñoz de la Cruz and José M. González-Rave

Volume 24, issue 1, 2024

Relationship between the Nordic hamstring strength test and isokinetic hamstring strength test at different eccentric contraction velocities pp. 1-17

Puš Katarina, Hadžić Vedran and Spudić Darjan

How do the football teams play in LaLiga? Analysis and comparison of playing styles according to the outcome pp. 18-30

Adrián Martín-Castellanos, Marina Rueda Flores, Diego Muriarte Solana, Roberto López Del Campo, Fabio Nevado Garrosa and Daniel Mon-López

A comparison of the match action characteristics of scholarship, academy, and senior rugby league: influence on career progression pp. 31-43

James Bletsoe, Sarah Whitehead, Jamie Poolton, Thomas Sawzcuk and Kevin Till

Comparison of kinematic performance and analysis of the effect of punching speed of rear hook of college boxers of different sexes pp. 44-57

Qinglou Xu, Changjing Xi and Ruiqiu Mao

How valid is the commercially available tennis match analysis mobile application? Is it good enough? pp. 58-73

Ju-Pil Choe, In-Whi Hwang, Jeong-Hui Park, Christina Amo and Jung-Min Lee

Bayesian inference of the impulse-response model of athlete training and performance pp. 74-89

Kangyi Peng, Ryan T. Brodie, Tim B. Swartz and David C. Clarke

Changes in the relationship between sprint and horizontal jump performance according to sprint levels in children and adolescents pp. 90-103

Júlio B. Mello, Artur A. B. Preissler, Pedro Schons, Alex Ojeda-Aravena, Juan Hurtado, Jacqueline Paez and Adroaldo Gaya