ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
State Transition Modeling in Ultimate Frisbee: Adaptation of a Promising Method for Performance Analysis in Invasion Sports.
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- Teamwork: A Systematic Review of Implications From Psychosocial Constructs for Research and Practice in the Performance of Ultimate Frisbee Games.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
- Epidemiology, injury mechanisms, and prevention strategies in Ultimate Frisbee.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Review
- Performance assessment in elite table tennis matches using the enhanced first offensive shot model.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Ultimate Frisbee Players: Characteristics according to Their Competitive Level and Spirit of the Game.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Influence of different playing styles among the top three teams on action zones in the World Cup in 2018 using a Markov state transition matrix.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Although the body of literature in sport science is growing rapidly, certain sports have yet to benefit from this increased interest by the scientific community. One such sport is Ultimate Frisbee, officially known as Ultimate. Thus, the goal of this study was to describe the nature of the sport by identifying differences between winning and losing teams in elite-level competition. To do so, a customized observational system and a state transition model were developed and applied to 14 games from the 2017 American Ultimate Disc League season. The results reveal that, on average, 262.2 passes were completed by a team per game and 5.5 passes per possession. More than two-thirds of these passes were played from the mid zone (39.4 ± 6.57%) and the rear zone (35.2 ± 5.09%), nearest the team's own end zone. Winning and losing teams do not differ in these general patterns, but winning teams played significantly fewer backward passes from the front zone to the mid zone, nearest the opponent's end zone than losing teams (mean difference of -4.73%,
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