Play-by-Play Network Analysis in Football

‘Meta-societies’ and ‘play communities’. The function of play to Liberian youth football players

Predicting Offensive Play Types in the National Football League

In this paper, we apply tools from machine learning to the burgeoning field of football analytics and predict whether a team will run or pass the ball on a given play. After training four different classification algorithms on data from the 2012-2014 NFL seasons, we developed an ensemble method that combines the predictions of our two best-performing individual models and achieved a test accura...

analysis of power in the network society

اندیشمندان و صاحب نظران علوم اجتماعی بر این باورند که مرحله تازه ای در تاریخ جوامع بشری اغاز شده است. ویژگیهای این جامعه نو را می توان پدیده هایی از جمله اقتصاد اطلاعاتی جهانی ، هندسه متغیر شبکه ای، فرهنگ مجاز واقعی ، توسعه حیرت انگیز فناوری های دیجیتال، خدمات پیوسته و نیز فشردگی زمان و مکان برشمرد. از سوی دیگر قدرت به عنوان موضوع اصلی علم سیاست جایگاه مهمی در روابط انسانی دارد، قدرت و بازتولید...

Return to Play Following Metacarpal Fractures in Football Players

BACKGROUND Metacarpal fractures are common in football players and lead to time away from competition, but current operative treatment data is limited. The purpose of this study was to examine demographics and outcomes of football players who underwent operative fixation for metacarpal fractures. METHODS Retrospective review from 2009 to 2012 of any football player surgically treated at one i...

Return to play after acute infectious disease in football players.

Acute infectious diseases are common in athletes and can impair their ability to train and to compete. Furthermore, continuing exercise during infectious diseases may lead to prolongation or aggravation of illness with severe acute or chronic organ manifestations. Therefore, even simple infectious diseases require a sufficient period of convalescence and recovery, during which exercise may be n...