Modern-day political discord has led to a recent spate of athletes using their platform make statements about America. One under-researched aspect modern sport activism is the study symbols themselves, such as controversial kneeling during national anthem by National Football League players, statement-making pregame apparel worn Basketball Association stars, and other statements. This case exam...

Quantitative analysis of football play calling suggests that NFL coaches do not choose their strategies optimally. They tend to be overly cautious. One possible explanation for this finding is that NFL coaches are averse to risk and loss. We propose a prospect theory based model of coaches' utility and estimate the model's parameters using kickoff data from the 2009 NFL season. Using an outcome...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a psychological skills training program on the cohesion of a men's soccer team during a playing season. Thirty subjects were divided into an experimental group (first team) and a control group (reserve team). All subjects were measured on cohesiveness items before, in the middle, and after a seven-month psychological intervention program. ...

A significant share of rowers does not have access to professional supervision by coaches. However, proper technique is a key component for both success in competitions and to prevent injuries or long-term induced postural deformity. In cooperation with national rowing coaches we developed a sensor system to continuously monitor the rower's seat position. It allows offline data analysis and com...

Hiring a head coach of a college sports team is vital which will definitely have a great influence on the later development of the team. However, a lot of attention has been focused on each coach’s individual features. A systematic and quantitative analysis of the whole coach hiring market is lacking. In a coach hiring network, the coaches are actually voting with their feet. It is interesting ...

The present study examined the influence of an online relationship-oriented personal-disclosure mutual-sharing (ROPDMS) intervention upon diverse measures group functioning during a national lockdown. Twelve soccer coaches and one senior member staff from professional female academy participated by openly disclosing sharing unknown personal stories with another. Social identity dimensions (in-g...

attribution theory is one of the psychological dynamic theories that explainsand describes people's perception of facts. therefore, the aim of this research wasto study success and failure attributions in athletes and coaches. the population ofthis study consisted of athletes and coaches of national teams (elite) and clubteams (sub–elite) in swimming, badminton, karate, taekwondo, table te...

One expects those who lead organisations to affect their performance. If not why would spend so much time and money appointing incentivising leaders? Yet there is little evidence establishing a causal link between leaders organisational Using game-by-game linked employer-employee data for professional football in four countries over fifteen seasons we compare the performance of teams after they...

This policy briefing summarises the results of this project as to the prevention of injuries in handball. It has been developed for national handball federations and local associations and is in particular addressing coaches and officials. This with the view to assist them in developing and implementing safety management schemes in clubs and their national federation and to encourage coaches as...