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ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2018

Transferring an Analytical Technique from Ecology to the Sport Sciences.

Carl T Woods, Sam Robertson, Neil French Collier, Anne L Swinbourne, Anthony S Leicht

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Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 authors.

Carl T WoodsDiscipline of Sport and Exercise Science, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia. carl.woods@jcu.edu.au.
Sam RobertsonInstitute of Sport, Exercise and Activity Living (ISEAL), Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Neil French CollierFaculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University Luneburg, Luneburg, Germany.
Anne L SwinbournePsychology, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Anthony S LeichtDiscipline of Sport and Exercise Science, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundLearning transfer is defined as an individual's capability to apply prior learnt perceptual, motor, or conceptual skills to a novel task or performance environment. In the sport sciences, learning transfers have been investigated from an athlete-specific perspective. However, sport scientists should also consider the benefits of cross-disciplinary learning to aid critical thinking and metacognitive skill gained through the interaction with similar quantitative scientific disciplines.

objectiveUsing team sports performance analysis as an example, this study aimed to demonstrate the utility of a common analytical technique in ecology in the sports sciences, namely, nonmetric multidimensional scaling.

methodsTo achieve this aim, three novel research examples using this technique are presented, each of which enables the analysis and visualization of athlete (organism), team (aggregation of organisms), and competition (ecosystem) behaviors.

resultsThe first example reveals the technical behaviors of Australian Football League Brownlow medalists from the 2001 to 2016 seasons. The second example delineates dissimilarity in higher and lower ranked National Rugby League teams within the 2016 season. Lastly, the third example shows the evolution of game play in the basketball tournaments between the 2004 and 2016 Olympic Games.

conclusionsIn addition to the novel findings of each example, the collective results demonstrate that, by embracing cross-disciplinary learning and drawing upon an analytical technique common to ecology, novel solutions to pertinent research questions within sports performance analysis could be addressed in a practically meaningful way. Cross-disciplinary learning may subsequently assist sport scientists in the analysis and visualization of multivariate datasets.

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