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Comment on “Football-specific fitness testing: adding value or confirming the evidence?” [PDF]
, 2014 The recent point–counter-point exchange arising from the article by Mendez-Villanueva and Buchheit (2013) (Football-specific fitness testing: Adding value or confirming the evidence?
Carling, C.,, Collins, D.
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Pricing Football Players using Neural Networks [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 We designed a multilayer perceptron neural network to predict the price of a football (soccer) player using data on more than 15,000 players from the football simulation video game FIFA 2017. The network was optimized by experimenting with different activation functions, number of neurons and layers, learning rate and its decay, Nesterov momentum based
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Seasonal Linear Predictivity in National Football Championships [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 Predicting the results of sport matches and competitions is an arising research field, benefiting from the growing amount of available data and the novel data analytics techniques. Excellent forecasts can be achieved by advanced machine learning methods applied to detailed historical data, especially in very popular sports such as football (soccer ...
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Global game, local goals : football and the global-local nexus : a thesis in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Arts in Social Anthropology, Massey University, Albany [PDF]
, 2006 Association football is the most popular sport in the world with massive numbers of players and supporters, both male and female. The global spread of football coupled with its projection through mass media to global audiences suggests an analysis based ...
McAdam, Stuart Graeme
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Criminalizing songs and symbols in Scottish football:how anti-sectarian legislation has created a new ‘sectarian’ divide in Scotland [PDF]
, 2018 Since the 1990s, the regulation of football fans has increasingly shifted from the policing of actions to the policing of words. With this in mind, this article looks at the impact of the anti-sectarian ‘industry’ in Scotland.
Waiton, Stuart
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British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2018 Objectives We investigated medical staff interpretations and descriptions of internal communication quality in elite football teams to determine whether internal communication was correlated with injuries and/or player availability at training and ...
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Predictive modelling of football injuries [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 The goal of this thesis is to investigate the potential of predictive modelling for football injuries. This work was conducted in close collaboration with Tottenham Hotspurs FC (THFC), the PGA European tour and the participation of Wolverhampton Wanderers (WW). Three investigations were conducted: 1.
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Football: a counterpoint to the procession of pain on the Western Front, 1914-1918? [PDF]
, 2014 In this article, three artworks of the First World War containing images of recreational football are analysed. These three images, In the Wings of the Theatre of War, Artillery Men at Football and Gassed, span the war from its beginning to its ...
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British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2018 Injuries in football exert negative impacts on team performance1 and club finance.2 Hamstring strain injuries (HSI) are consistently the most prevalent time loss injury in football3 and as such are an important issue in football medicine. Despite an ever-
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PhysicsFC: Learning User-Controlled Skills for a Physics-Based Football Player Controller [PDF]
We propose PhysicsFC, a method for controlling physically simulated football player characters to perform a variety of football skills--such as dribbling, trapping, moving, and kicking--based on user input, while seamlessly transitioning between these skills.
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