Complexity and Control in Team Sports

Felix Lebed is senior lecturer and head of the Physical Education Department at Kaye Academic College of Education, Israel. He is involved in the interdisciplinary studies of competitive game playing and has published more than 60 papers in English, Hebrew and Russian, a number of chapters in edited collections as well as three books. Dr Lebed was previously senior lecturer at the Ukrainian State University of Physical Education and Sport and senior researcher supervising the Soviet national handball teams’ Olympic preparation. Michael Bar-Eli is professor and the head of Sport Management at Zinman College, Wingate Institute, Israel. He is also "Mercator Professor" at the University of Tuebingen, Germany and currently holds the Nat Holman Chair in Sports Research at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Having published extensively in English and Hebrew on Sport Psychology, Dr Bar-Eli has gone on to serve as associate and section-editor for a number of leading sport psychology journals alongside consultant psychology roles for elite-level athletes and the Israeli defence forces.

• Introduction Part I. Methodological aspects of complexity in team sports Chapter 1. Complexity in modern sciences Chapter 2. Complexity in living systems - in nature and humans Chapter 3. To think complex in team sports Part II. Individuals in team contests - the complexity point of view Chapter 4. Movement coordination and individual performance Chapter 5. Contest cognition and complexity in team sports Chapter 6. Complete complex framework of individual performance Chapter 7. Complexity and emotional states regulation Part III. Complexity in sport teams and organizations Chapter 8. Self-organization in group and team dynamics Chapter 9. Control and regulation of team performance by coaches Chapter 10. Complexity at the elite club level Part IV. Applying the complexity approach Chapter 11. Complexity approach to scientific support in elite teams