ABSTRACT
Team behaviors emerge from interactions of players looking to cooperate and compete together to achieve common goals, while communicating through synergetic relations. Sport team performance has been extensively analyzed by a range of analytic performance indices. A traditional approach to understanding the mastery of group processes that culminates in team effectiveness is predicated on the notion of group cognition. A team’s center is obtained by computing the mean lateral and longitudinal positional coordinates of each performer in a team. Analysis of inter-team coordination processes has considered the distance between the two teams’ centroids in small-sided games as a measure of proximity between competing teams. Tactics in invasion team sports are expressed by the stretching and expanding of attacking teams on the field and the contracting and reducing of distances between players of the defending team. A cluster phase method has been recently proposed to analyze synchrony in systems with a small number of oscillatory units.
