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Cultural evolution of football tactics: strategic social learning in managers' choice of formation.
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- Contemporary trends in tactical formations and team success in Europe's top-tier football leagues: a comparative analysis.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- The cultural macroevolution of arcade video games: innovation, collaboration, and collapse.Evolutionary human sciences · 2025Article
- The principles of tactical formation identification in association football (soccer) - a survey.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Review
- A competing risk survival analysis of the impacts of team formation on goals in professional football.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- Cultural transmission of move choice in chess.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Evolution of Tactics in Professional Soccer: An Analysis of Team Formations from 2012 to 2021 in the Spanish LaLiga.Journal of human kinetics · 2023Article
- Design and Reliability of an Observational Framework to Evaluate the Individual Offensive Behavior in Youth Soccer-The INDISOC Tool.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
In order to adaptively solve complex problems or make difficult decisions, people must strategically combine personal information acquired directly from experience (individual learning) and social information acquired from others (social learning). The game of football (soccer) provides extensive real world data with which to quantify this strategic information use. I analyse a 5-year dataset of all games (
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