RESEARCH ARTICLE
Application of T-Pattern Detection and Analysis in Sports Research
Gudberg K. Jonsson1, M. Teresa Anguera2, Pedro Sanchez-Algarra2, Conceicao Olivera3, Jorge Campanico3, *, Marta Castaner4, Carlota Torrents4, Maria Dinusova4, Javier Chaverri4, Oleguer Camerino4, Magnus S. Magnusson5
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2010Volume: 3
First Page: 95
Last Page: 104
Publisher ID: TOSSJ-3-95
DOI: 10.2174/1875399X010030100095
Article History:
Received Date: 05/07/2009Revision Received Date: 10/10/2009
Acceptance Date: 01/11/2009
Electronic publication date: 26/5/2010
Collection year: 2010
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The following paper introduces a new approach to the analysis of sports and motor skill performance. The approach, known as T-pattern detection, is explained and preliminary data analyses from soccer, boxing, basketball, swimming and motor skill analysis are presented. The data show that specific temporal patterns can be identified within sports performances. The temporal patterns can relate to performance of specific actions (e.g. passes) or movement patterns. Further analysis showed a significant correlation between coaches' ratings' of performance with the number of temporal patterns exhibited by athletes.