PMID- 35899012
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20220729
IS  - 1664-1078 (Print)
IS  - 1664-1078 (Electronic)
IS  - 1664-1078 (Linking)
VI  - 13
DP  - 2022
TI  - Qualitative Team Formation Analysis in Football: A Case Study of the 2018 FIFA 
      World Cup.
PG  - 863216
LID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.863216 [doi]
LID - 863216
AB  - In this paper, we explore the use of the Static Qualitative Trajectory Calculus 
      (QTC(S)), a qualitative spatiotemporal method based on the QTC, for the analysis 
      of team formations in football. While methods for team formation analysis in 
      sports are predominantly quantitative in nature, QTC(S) enables the comparison of 
      team formations by describing the relative positions between players in a 
      qualitative manner, which is more related to the way players position themselves 
      on the field. QTC(S) has the potential to allow to monitor to what extent a 
      football team plays according to a coach's predetermined formation. When applied 
      to multiple matches of one team, the method can contribute to the definition of 
      the playing style of a team. We present an experiment aimed at identifying the 
      team formation played by Belgian national football team during the 2018 FIFA 
      World Cup held in France.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2022 Beernaerts, De Baets, Lenoir and Van de Weghe.
FAU - Beernaerts, Jasper
AU  - Beernaerts J
AD  - CartoGIS, Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
FAU - De Baets, Bernard
AU  - De Baets B
AD  - KERMIT, Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Ghent University, 
      Ghent, Belgium.
FAU - Lenoir, Matthieu
AU  - Lenoir M
AD  - Department of Movement and Sports Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
FAU - Van de Weghe, Nico
AU  - Van de Weghe N
AD  - CartoGIS, Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220708
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Psychol
JT  - Frontiers in psychology
JID - 101550902
PMC - PMC9309202
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - QTC
OT  - World Cup
OT  - football
OT  - team behavior
OT  - team formation analysis
COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any 
      commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential 
      conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2022/07/29 06:00
MHDA- 2022/07/29 06:01
PMCR- 2022/07/08
CRDT- 2022/07/28 02:19
PHST- 2022/01/26 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/05/03 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/07/28 02:19 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/07/29 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/07/29 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/07/08 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.863216 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Psychol. 2022 Jul 8;13:863216. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.863216. eCollection 
      2022.