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Author(s): | Caldeira, N. Lopes, R. J. Araújo, D. Fernandes, D. |
Date: | 2024 |
Title: | The finishing space value for shooting decision-making in high-performance football |
Journal title: | Sports |
Volume: | 12 |
Number: | 8 |
Reference: | Caldeira, N., Lopes, R. J., Araújo, D., & Fernandes, D. (2024). The finishing space value for shooting decision-making in high-performance football. Sports, 12(8), Article 208. https://doi.org/10.3390/sports12080208 |
ISSN: | 2075-4663 |
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.3390/sports12080208 |
Keywords: | Affordances Degeneracy Performance Team synergies Voronoi diagrams |
Abstract: | Football players’ decision-making behaviours near the scoring target (finishing situations) emerge from the evolving spatiotemporal information directly perceived in the game’s landscape. In finishing situations, the ball carrier’s decision-making about shooting or passing is not an individual decision-making process, but a collective decision that is guided by players’ perceptions of match affordances. To sustain this idea, we collected spatiotemporal information and built a model to quantify the “Finishing Space Value” (FSV) that results from players’ perceived affordances about two main questions: (a) is the opponent’s target successfully reachable from a given pitch location?; and (b) from each given pitch location, the opposition context will allow enough space to shoot (low adversaries’ interference)? The FSV was calculated with positional data from high-performance football matches, combining information extracted from Voronoi diagrams (VD) with distances and angles to the goal line. FSV was tested using as a reference the opinion of a “panel of expert” (PE), composed by football coaches, about a questionnaire presenting 50 finishing situations. Results showed a strong association between the subjective perception scale used by the PE to assess how probable a shot made by the ball carrier could result in a goal and FSV calculated for that same situation (R2=.6706). Moreover, we demonstrate the accuracy of the FSV quantification model in predicting coaches’ opinions about what should be the “best option” to finish the play. Overall, results indicated that the FSV is a promising model to capture the affordances of the shooting circumstances for the ball carrier’s decision-making in high-performance football. FSV might be useful for more precise match analysis and informing coaches in the design of representative practice tasks. |
Peerreviewed: | yes |
Access type: | Open Access |
Appears in Collections: | IT-RI - Artigos em revistas científicas internacionais com arbitragem científica |
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