Emotions, identity, and power in video-based feedback sessions: tales from women’s professional football

Football incident analysis: a new video based method to describe injury mechanisms in professional football.

OBJECTIVES To develop and test a new video based method for match analysis that combines football specific and medical information to achieve a better understanding of the injury mechanisms and events leading up to high risk situations. METHODS Football incident analysis (FIA) is a video based method describing incidents that may result in an injury using 19 variables and categories modified ...

Video analysis of injuries and incidents in Norwegian professional football.

OBJECTIVES This study describes the characteristics of injuries and high risk situations in the Norwegian professional football league during one competitive season using Football Incident Analysis (FIA), a video based method. METHODS Videotapes and injury information were collected prospectively for 174 of 182 (96%) regular league matches during the 2000 season. Incidents where the match was...

Power and endurance in Hong Kong professional football players

Background The purpose of this study was to investigate the power and endurance characteristics of Hong Kong professional football players. Training recommendations can be deduced based on the comparison between Hong Kong and international football players. Methods Eighty-eight Hong Kong professional football players (height, 177.2 ± 6.4 cm; weight, 70.6 ± 7.6 kg; age, 25.6 ± 5.0 years) in th...

Identity narratives and group-based emotions

Do Firms Maximize? Evidence from Professional Football

This paper examines a single, narrow decision—the choice on fourth down in the National Football League between kicking and trying for a first down—as a case study of the standard view that competition in the goods, capital, and labor markets leads firms to make maximizing choices. Play-by-play data and dynamic programming are used to estimate the average payoffs to kicking and trying for a fir...