ArticleBiology of sport2019
"How" is more important than "how much" for game possession in elite northern hemisphere rugby union.
Article in Biology of sport, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Testing methods and physical qualities of male age grade rugby union players: A systematic review.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
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- Comparison of Ball-in-Play Running Demands Across Game Phases and The Relationship between Physical and Technical Variables: An Analysis of The 2024 Female Super Sevens Tournament.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2025Article
- Design, validation, and reliability of the Bangor rugby assessment tool for evaluating technical and tactical skills in rugby union development pathways.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- A novel application of entropy analysis for assessing changes in movement variability during cumulative tackles in young elite rugby league players.Biology of sport · 2023Article
- Practice to pitch: The relationship between force-velocity profiles and match-day performance of semi-professional rugby union players.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Article
- A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze Home Advantage during COVID-19 Pandemic Period with Regards to Margin of Victory and to Different Tournaments in Professional Rugby Union Competitions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Training sessions with tackles impair upper-limb neuromuscular function in elite rugby union.Biology of sport · 2020Article
- Rugby game performances and weekly workload: Using of data mining process to enter in the complexity.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
The present study aimed to analyse technical and tactical aspects of rugby teams competing in the 2016/17 PRO12 Championship (12 professional club teams from Wales, Scotland, Italy, and Ireland) according to: margin of victory (close and balanced games, 1-9 and 10-26 points of difference in final score, respectively), ranking position [the four best placed clubs from each nation (the 1
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