Social Network Analysis Applied to Team Sports Analysis

Filipe Manuel Clemente (Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Escola Superior de Desporto e Lazer and Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra, Portugal), Fernando Manuel Lourenço Martins (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Delegação da Covilhã and Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra, Portugal) and Rui Sousa Mendes (Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra, Portugal) have published more than 30 articles in journals indexed on Web of Knowledge about team sports analysis based on technological and mathematical approaches. In the last five years, the research group have published five articles on network analysis applied to team sports analysis. In addition, they have been working on a software (Performance Analysis Tool) to increase the possibilities of network analysis in the field of match analysis.

• Introduction.- Social Network Analysis: Concepts and definitions.- Observational tools to collect data in team sports.- Micro Levels of analysis: Player’s centralities in the team.- Meso Level of analysis:Subgroups in Teams.- Macro Levels of analysis: Network of the team.- Argentina’sNetwork Analysis in FIFA World Cup 2014: A case study. /* Style Definitions */table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin-top:0in;mso-para-margin-right:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}