International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport

2001 - 2025

Current editor(s): Peter O'Donoghue

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Volume 17, issue 6, 2017

Network centrality analysis to determine the tactical leader of a sports team pp. 822-831

Koh Sasaki, Takumi Yamamoto, Masahiko Miyao, Takashi Katsuta and Ichiro Kono

Senior and youth national team competitive experience: influence on player and team performance in European basketball championships pp. 832-847

Anton Kalén, Alexandra Pérez-Ferreirós, Ezequiel Rey and Alexis Padrón-Cabo

Entropy measures reveal collective tactical behaviours in volleyball teams: how variability and regularity in game actions influence competitive rankings and match status pp. 848-862

Ana Ramos, Patrícia Coutinho, Pedro Silva, Keith Davids, Eduardo Guimarães and Isabel Mesquita

Judo rules: searching for a wind of changes pp. 863-871

Michel Calmet, Emanuela Pierantozzi, Stanislaw Sterkowicz, Monica Yuri Takito and Emerson Franchini

More acceleration and less speed to assess physical demands in female young tennis players pp. 872-884

Carlos Galé-Ansodi, Julen Castellano and Oidui Usabiaga

Evolution of tactical behavior of soccer players across their development pp. 885-901

Javier Sevil Serrano, Alba Práxedes Pizarro, Luis García-González, Alberto Moreno Domínguez and Fernando del Villar Álvarez

Effects of pitch surface and playing position on external load activity profiles and technical demands of young soccer players in match play pp. 902-918

Ângelo Brito, Paulo Roriz, Pedro Silva, Ricardo Duarte and Júlio Garganta

Analysis of contextual-related variables on serve and receiving performances in elite men’s and women’s table tennis players pp. 919-933

Miguel-Ángel Gómez, Antonio García-de-Alcaráz and Philip Furley

Validation of the futsal-specific intermittent shuttle protocol for the simulation of the physical demands of futsal match-play pp. 934-947

Victor Hugo de Freitas, Solange de Paula Ramos, Anthony Leicht, Thâmara Alves, Felipe Rabelo, Maurício Gattás Bara-Filho, Flávia Alessandra Guarnier and Fábio Yuzo Nakamura

Pattern of movement and the pre- and post-start activation phase during the sprint start in the low-distance athletic run pp. 948-960

K. Piechota, Z. Borysiuk and M. Błaszczyszyn

An analytical model of the two basic situation strategies in table tennis pp. 970-985

Hui Zhang and Zheng Zhou

To compare the type of passing in Gaelic football at senior inter-county level historically to modern day pp. 986-995

Patricia Lynch and Robert Carroll

Influence of ACTN3 R/X gene polymorphisms on racing strategy in rowing athletes pp. 996-1006

Bianca Miarka, Ciro José Brito, David H. Fukuda, Carlos Castilho Barros, Cássia Goulart, Fábio Dal Bello and Fabrício B. Del Vecchio

Which tool for a tennis serve evaluation? A review pp. 1007-1033

F. Tubez, C. Schwartz, J. Paulus, J.-L. Croisier, O. Brüls, V. Denoël and B. Forthomme

Using performance data to identify styles of play in netball: an alternative to performance indicators pp. 1034-1043

Hayden Croft, Bobby Willcox and Peter Lamb

Team performance indicators that predict match outcome and points difference in professional rugby league pp. 1044-1056

Nimai Parmar, Nic James, Mike Hughes, Huw Jones and Gary Hearne

Utilisation of performance analysis among Western Province Rugby Union club coaches pp. 1057-1072

Heinrich Painczyk, Sharief Hendricks and Wilbur Kraak

Styles of play in professional soccer: an approach of the Chinese Soccer Super League pp. 1073-1084

Carlos Lago-Peñas, Miguel Gómez-Ruano and Gai Yang

Volume 17, issue 5, 2017

Predicting the outcome of professional darts tournaments pp. 666-683

Steffen Liebscher and Thomas Kirschstein

Physiological responses and time-motion characteristics of young tennis players: comparison of serve vs. return games and winners vs. losers matches pp. 684-694

Bulent Kilit and Ersan Arslan

Effects of competitive standard, team formation and playing position on match running performance of Brazilian professional soccer players pp. 695-705

Rodrigo Aquino, Luiz H. Palucci Vieira, Christopher Carling, Guilherme H. M. Martins, Isabella S. Alves and Enrico F. Puggina

The relationship between technical performance indicators and running performance in elite Gaelic football pp. 706-720

Shane Mangan, Martin Ryan, Simon Devenney, Aidan Shovlin, Jason McGahan, Shane Malone, Cian O’Neill, Con Burns and Kieran Collins

The influence of floaters on players’ tactical behaviour in small-sided and conditioned soccer games pp. 721-736

Maickel Bach Padilha, José Guilherme, Jaime Serra-Olivares, André Roca and Israel Teoldo

Analysis of activity patterns, physiological demands and decision-making performance of elite Futsal referees during matches pp. 737-751

Hawkar Ahmed, Glen Davison and David Dixon

Methodological approaches to determine the “U”-pacing strategy in cycling time trial pp. 752-762

Rafael Azevedo, Ramon Cruz, Marcos Silva-Cavalcante, Renata Silva, Carlos Correia-Oliveira, Patrícia Couto, Adriano Lima-Silva and Romulo Bertuzzi

Effect of rapid weight loss on physical performance in judo athletes: is rapid weight loss a help for judokas with weight problems? pp. 763-773

Leonardo S. Fortes, Bruna D. V. Costa, Pedro P. Paes, Edilson S. Cyrino, Jeferson M. Vianna and Emerson Franchini

Heart rate response does not differ between pitch types in college baseball pitchers pp. 774-782

Garrett S. Bullock, Abigail C. Schmitt, Patrick Chasse, Barrett A. Little, Lee H. Diehl and Robert J. Butler

Effects of experience and relative quality in tennis match performance during four Grand Slams pp. 783-801

Yixiong Cui, Miguel-Ángel Gómez, Bruno Gonçalves, Hongyou Liu and Jaime Sampaio

Opposition interaction in creating penetration during match play in elite soccer: evidence from UEFA champions league matches pp. 802-812

A. Tenga, A. Mortensholm and P. O’Donoghue

Examination of internal training load parameters during the selection, preparation and competition phases of a mesocycle in elite field hockey players pp. 813-821

Andrew Scott Perrotta, Nicholas James Held and Darren E.R. Warburton

Volume 17, issue 4, 2017

Conversion index for running on different indoor track and field facility types pp. 375-384

Kyle R. Barnes and Rita Malcata

Effect of fatigue on the movement activities of senior male Zimbabwean national rugby sevens players pp. 385-393

Pieter H. van den Berg, D. D. J. Malan and J. Hans de Ridder

Influence of match quality on men’s volleyball performance at different competition levels pp. 394-405

Antonio García-de-Alcaraz and Rui Marcelino

Effect of functional classification on the swimming race segments during the 2012 London Paralympic Games pp. 406-417

Javier Pérez-Tejero, Santiago Veiga, Alberto Almena, Archit Navandar and Enrique Navarro

Relationship between physical metrics and game success with elite rugby sevens players pp. 418-428

Matthew R. Blair, Simon F. Body and Hayden G. Croft

The inside out forehand as a tactical pattern in men’s professional tennis pp. 429-441

E. Martin-Lorente, J. Campos and M. Crespo

The volleyball setter’s decision-making on attacking pp. 442-457

Renata Alvares Denardi, Fabian Alberto Romero Clavijo, Thiago Augusto Costa de Oliveira, Bruno Travassos, Go Tani and Umberto Cesar Corrêa

Rule change and Olympic judo scores, penalties and match duration pp. 458-465

Michel Calmet, Emanuela Pierantozzi, Stanislaw Sterkowicz, Bob Challis and Emerson Franchini

Players’ technical and physical performance profiles and game-to-game variation in NBA pp. 466-483

Shaoliang Zhang, Alberto Lorenzo, Miguel-Angel Gómez, Hongyou Liu, Bruno Gonçalves and Jaime Sampaio

Work rates of international hockey umpires pp. 484-491

Christopher A. Spice, Dan A. Gordon, Lee Smith and James A. Johnstone

A predictive model for analysing the starting pitchers’ performance using time series classification methods pp. 492-509

César Soto-Valero, Mabel González-Castellanos and Irvin Pérez-Morales

Performance probabilities and outcome effects in technical–tactical factors with bout phase changes of mixed martial arts pp. 510-520

Bianca Miarka, Ciro José Brito and John Amtmann

Optimal load and power spectrum during snatch and clean: differences between international and national weightlifters pp. 521-533

F. Javier Flores, Silvia Sedano and Juan C. Redondo

Performance indicators that discriminate winning and losing in elite men’s and women’s Rugby Union pp. 534-544

Angus Hughes, Andrew Barnes, Sarah M. Churchill and Joseph A. Stone

Analysis of the physical and technical differences between 7-a-side and 8-a-side game modalities in official under 12 soccer matches pp. 545-554

Alfredo Bravo-Sánchez, Javier Abián-Vicén and Pablo Abián

Analysis of mismatch after ball screens in Spanish professional basketball pp. 555-562

Jorge Lorenzo Calvo, Alejandro Menéndez García and Archit Navandar

Kinematics of the running-like sprint start in long-track speed skating pp. 563-575

Jooho Song, Don Hyung Lee and Young-Jin Moon

A pilot study to measure game style within Australian football pp. 576-585

Grace Greenham, Adam Hewitt and Kevin Norton

Global differences in home advantage by country, sport and sex pp. 586-599

Richard Pollard, Jaime Prieto and Miguel-Ángel Gómez

Validity of an inertial system to measure sprint time and sport task time: a proposal for the integration of photocells in an inertial system pp. 600-608

Alejandro Bastida Castillo, Carlos David Gómez Carmona, José Pino Ortega and Ernesto de la Cruz Sánchez

On the validity of team performance indicators in rugby union pp. 609-621

Neil Watson, Ian Durbach, Sharief Hendricks and Theodor Stewart

Physiological responses, hitting accuracy and step count of a tennis drill in function of court surface: a randomised cross-over design pp. 622-629

Laurent Chapelle, Peter Clarys, Stijn Meulemans and Dirk Aerenhouts

Predictive game patterns in World Rugby Sevens Series games using Markov chain analysis pp. 630-641

James F. Barkell, Alun Pope, Donna O’Connor and Wayne G. Cotton

Water polo shot indicators according to the phase of the championship: medallist versus non-medallist players pp. 642-655

Pablo García-Marín and Francisco Manuel Argudo Iturriaga

Physical demand of wheelchair tennis match-play on hard courts and clay courts pp. 656-665

Matteo Ponzano and Massimiliano Gollin

Volume 17, issue 3, 2017

Analysis of Super Rugby from 2011 to 2015 pp. 190-201

Riaan Schoeman, Derik Coetzee and Robert Schall

Prediction of team league’s rankings in volleyball by artificial neural network method pp. 202-211

Abdullah Erdal Tümer and Sabri Koçer

The influence of situational variables on defensive positioning in professional soccer pp. 212-219

Pedro Santos, Carlos Lago-Peñas and Oscar García-García

Movement analysis and metabolic profile of tennis match play: comparison between hard courts and clay courts pp. 220-231

Matteo Ponzano and Massimiliano Gollin

Relationship between swim start wall contact time and final performance in backstroke events in international swimming championships pp. 232-243

Antonio García-Hermoso, Jose M. Saavedra, Raúl Arellano and Fernando Navarro

Home advantage in Portuguese football: effects of level of competition and mid-term trends pp. 244-255

Carlos H. Almeida and Anna Volossovitch

Effect of two alternated teaching units of invasion team sports on the tactical learning in primary schoolchildren pp. 256-270

Jesús Viciana, Daniel Mayorga-Vega, Santiago Guijarro-Romero and Alejandro Martínez-Baena

The impact of different recovery times between matches on physical and technical performance according to playing positions pp. 271-282

Erik Penedo-Jamardo, Ezequiel Rey, Alexis Padrón-Cabo and Anton Kalén

Defending corner kicks in the English Premier League: near-post guard systems pp. 283-292

Craig Pulling and Jay Newton

The prediction of action positions in team handball by non-linear hybrid neural networks pp. 293-302

Amr Hassan, Norbert Schrapf and Markus Tilp

Analysis of the general match profile of international rugby union between 2007 and 2013 pp. 303-318

Wilbur Kraak, Frederik Coetzee and Ranel Venter

Attacking profiles in elite hurling pp. 319-333

Colm Clear, Mike Hughes and Denise Martin

Water polo: technical and tactical shot indicators between winners and losers according to the final score of the game pp. 334-349

Pablo García-Marín and Francisco Manuel Argudo Iturriaga

Analysis of performance indicators that most significantly affect International Twenty20 cricket pp. 350-359

Scott Irvine and Rodney Kennedy

Type of game practiced in handball according to the positions of the attackers: analysis of the Women’s World Handball Championship 2015 pp. 360-373

Gustavo De Conti Teixeira Costa, Gustavo Ferreira Pedrosa, Nilva Pessoa de Souza, Flórence Rosana Faganello Gemente, Auro Barreiros Freire and Henrique de Oliveira Castro

Volume 17, issue 1-2, 2017

Notational singles match analysis of male badminton players who participated in the African Badminton Championships pp. 1-16

Yahaya Abdullahi and Ben Coetzee

Perturbation effects in men’s and women’s international sevens pp. 17-33

James F. Barkell, Donna O’Connor and Wayne G. Cotton

A comparison of the playing structure in elite kids tennis on two different scaled courts pp. 34-43

David Bayer, Michael Ebert and Roland Leser

Collective behaviour in basketball: a systematic review pp. 44-64

Javier Courel-Ibáñez, Allistair P. McRobert, Enrique Ortega Toro and David Cárdenas Vélez

Investigation and comparison of lineouts during the 2013 the rugby championship and six-nations competition pp. 65-76

Luan Franken, Hanno van Vuuren, Wilbur Kraak and Luis Vaz

Passing and goal scoring characteristics in Australian A-League football pp. 77-85

Kylie Garratt, Aron Murphy and Rob Bower

Home advantage in elite soccer matches. A transient effect? pp. 86-95

Carlos Lago-Peñas, Miguel-Ángel Gomez and Richard Pollard

Performance differences between winning and losing under-19, under-21 and senior teams in men’s beach volleyball pp. 96-108

Alexandre I. A. Medeiros, Rui Marcelino, Isabel M. Mesquita and José M. Palao

“Snap-kicking” in elite Australian football: how foot preference and task difficulty highlight potential benefits from bilateral skill training pp. 109-120

Benjamin B. Moore, Nicholas J. O’Dwyer, Roger D. Adams and Stephen Cobley

Factors affecting home advantage in football World Cup qualification pp. 121-135

Richard Pollard and Vasilis Armatas

Quantification of the physical and physiological load of a boxing-specific simulation protocol pp. 136-148

Edward Thomson and Kevin Lamb

Match analysis within the coaching process: a critical tool to improve coach efficacy pp. 149-163

Carmen Fernandez-Echeverria, Isabel Mesquita, Jara González-Silva, Fernando Claver and M. Perla Moreno

Effects of situational variables on offensive performance indicators in elite water polo pp. 164-176

Enrique García-Ordóñez, Carlos Touriño-González and María del Carmen Iglesias-Pérez

A lower body height and wider foot stance are positively associated with the generation of individual scrummaging forces in rugby pp. 177-189

Andrew Green, Samantha Kerr, Chloe Dafkin, Benita Olivier and Warrick McKinon