International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport

2001 - 2025

Current editor(s): Peter O'Donoghue

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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

Volume 23, issue 6, 2023

Correlation between gluteus muscle activity and dynamic control of the knee joint in a single-leg landing task in badminton pp. 429-440

Zhe Hu, Youngsuk Kim, Tengfei Dong, Xiangwei Meng, Maolin Dong and Sukwon Kim

A transition game? A comparative analysis of possession usage following turnovers in elite Gaelic football pp. 441-457

Shaun McNamee, Denise Martin and Jonathan Bradley

A new look at the left-handed advantage in baseball pp. 458-488

Don M. Chance and Philip Z. Maymin

Metabolic power responses to different small sided games in football and futsal players pp. 489-502

Mehmet Goren Kose, Tahir Hazir and Ayse Kin-Isler

Performance differences between 26 and 29-inch wheels in cross-country mountain biking pp. 503-514

Enrique Moreno-Mañas, Xavier García-Massó and Salvador Llana-Belloch

Nash equilibrium and tennis serve performance: a game theory analysis pp. 515-526

Rouli Ye, Delong Zhao, Meng Zhang and Wenming Liu

Volume 23, issue 5, 2023

An analysis of ball possession and unbalanced number in small-sided games: a comparative study with Chinese and foreign soccer players pp. 343-355

Nuno André Nunes, Diogo Coutinho, Vitor Gouveia and Rory Magrath

Analysis of performance indicators in outdoor vs. indoor professional padel pp. 356-370

Adrián Escudero-Tena, Miguel Crespo, Bernardino J. Sánchez-Alcaraz and Diego Muñoz

Physiological, perceptual and performance variables partially predict pacing in judo pp. 371-385

Emerson Franchini, Monica Y. Takito and Ursula F. Julio

Separating winning and losing teams in sitting volleyball: the role of skills and differences across gender pp. 386-399

Marina Tsakiri, Sotirios Drikos, Konstantinos Sotiropoulos, Emmanouil Skordilis and Karolina Barzouka

Impact factors analysis: Differences in high-level golfers pp. 400-412

Matěj Brožka, Milan Kotrba, František Zahálka and Tomáš Gryc

Performance rating in men’s world elite artistic gymnastics: a status-quo study on scoring tendencies at Olympic Games following rule changes pp. 413-427

Jonas Rohleder, Alexandra Pizzera, Jonas Breuer and Tobias Vogt

Volume 23, issue 4, 2023

Changes in knee flexion-extension performance and hamstring-to-quadriceps ratio during a fatiguing isokinetic protocol in male professional futsal players pp. 249-263

Carlos Leonardo Figueiredo Machado, Fábio Yuzo Nakamura, Raphael Pereira Fortes, Israel Dias Trapaga, Clarissa Muller Brusco, Matheus Daros Pinto and Ronei Silveira Pinto

Effects of collective tactical variables and predictors on the probability of scoring in elite netball pp. 264-283

Ryan W. Hodder, Will G. Hopkins, Kevin A. Ball and Fabio R. Serpiello

What are the key performance indicators related to winning matches in the German Bundesliga? pp. 284-295

Gibson Moreira Praça, André Luiz Braga Jacinto, Guilherme de Sousa Pinheiro, Cristóvão de Oliveira Abreu and Varley Teoldo da Costa

Comparison of training activities and coaching behaviours in youth football coaches from Spain and China: a case study pp. 296-318

Runze Feng, Miguel A. Gómez-Ruano, Tianbiao Liu, Chunman Li and Antonio García-de-Alcaraz

Is it possible for the reception and the player-receiver to influence the offensive construction in volleyball? An ecological vision and Intragame procedural relationships in high-level teams pp. 319-333

Augusto Cezar Rodrigues Rocha, Lorenzo Laporta, Geovana Pires Rodrigues, Claudio Andre Barbosa de Lira, Henrique de Oliveira Castro and Gustavo de Conti Teixeira Costa

External peak demands are not affected by playing venue (home vs away) during official male basketball games pp. 334-342

Enrique Alonso Pérez-Chao, Juan Trapero, Carlos Ribas, Carlos Sosa, Miguel Ángel Gómez and Alberto Lorenzo

Volume 23, issue 3, 2023

A longitudinal analysis and data mining of the most representative external workload indicators of the whole elite Mexican soccer clubs pp. 139-154

Daniel Rojas-Valverde, Carlos D. Gómez-Carmona, Alejandro Bastida Castillo, Fabio Y. Nakamura, Enric Giménez-Martínez, Martí Matabosch-Pijuán, Jose R. Bernal and José Pino-Ortega

Do line call errors differ between men’s and women’s events in tennis? A case study from the 2021 Wimbledon Tournament pp. 155-166

Jan Carboch, Petra Praveckova and Otto Kolbinger

The temporal structure of male’s Olympic boxing matches in flyweight, middleweight and super heavyweight categories: a pilot study pp. 167-185

A. Gutiérrez-Santiago, C. Vázquez-Estévez, S. Muñoz-Rodrigo and I. Prieto-Lage

An examination of kinematic parameters related to pole vault performance pp. 186-195

Shota Enoki, Koichi Nakayama, Hiroko Takigawa and Rieko Kuramochi

An observational analysis of kicker–goalkeeper interaction in penalties between national football teams in international competitions pp. 196-212

José Ramón Barbero, Daniel Lapresa, Javier Arana and M. Teresa Anguera

Movement analysis of match play in U16-U21 youth Hungarian soccer players - the influence of age, position, and contextual variables pp. 213-231

László Kádár, Gábor Géczi, József Bognár and István Csáki

Analysis of referee in-game interactions with players and other officials in professional Rugby Union pp. 232-248

Meadhbh Lewis, Elizabeth McNicholas, Anna-Marie McCarthy and Ian Sherwin

Volume 23, issue 2, 2023

Selected soccer players are quicker and better decision-makers in elite Brazilian youth academies pp. 65-82

Guilherme Machado, Sixto González-Víllora and Israel Teoldo

Determination of basketball players’ high-performance profiles in the Spanish League pp. 83-96

Iker Madinabeitia, Bernardo Pérez, Miguel Ángel Gomez-Ruano and David Cárdenas

Profile of female swimmers competing in the 50 m events at the 2021 LEN European Championships pp. 97-110

João P Oliveira, Daniel A Marinho, Tiago M Barbosa, Tatiana Sampaio and Jorge E Morais

Identifying which factors impact bowling and batting performances during the “death” phase of an innings in international men’s 50-over cricket pp. 111-124

Mikael Jamil, Samuel Kerruish, Saumya Mehta, Ashwin Phatak, Daniel Memmert and Allistair McRobert

Using minimum effort duration can compromise the analysis of acceleration and deceleration demands in football pp. 125-137

Hugo Silva, Fábio Yuzo Nakamura, João Ribeiro, Jose Asian-Clemente, Paulo Roriz and Rui Marcelino

Volume 23, issue 1, 2023

Biomechanics of suplex in Greco-Roman wrestling: a qualitative and time-motion analysis of international competitions pp. 1-14

Julian Hoffmann, Cinzia Amici, Cosetta Minelli and Alberto Borboni

The effects of simulated duathlon on multisegment running external and internal load in well-trained triathletes pp. 15-30

Daniel Rojas-Valverde, José M. Oliva-Lozano, Randall Gutierrez-Vargas, José Pino-Ortega, José M. Muyor and Carlos D. Gómez-Carmona

What to look for in setting sports training tasks for young players? Analysis of the numerical configuration of players and court size constraints on futsal small-sided games performance difficulty level and player participation pp. 31-47

Thiago André Rigon, Rene Drezner, Fábio Ferreira Nogueira, Farzad Yousefian, Bruno Travassos and Luiz Eduardo Pinto Basto Tourinho Dantas

Possession tactics in the UEFA women’s EURO 2022 soccer tournament pp. 48-64

Peter O’Donoghue and Saffron Beckley