ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how interpersonal coordination tendencies are a prominent feature of the functioning of collective systems in many different walks of life, including work, education, military and sport contexts. In the task of explaining and predicting sport performance and its outcomes, further research is also needed to continue to develop a theoretical basis for understanding emergent interpersonal coordination tendencies in different sport performance contexts at different scales of analysis. The chapter discusses the data that indicates how individuals and teams might harness system metastability in switching between the needs of individuals and teams to satisfy performance constraints in the sport of international cricket. It describes the analysis and prediction of future performance in sport contexts, using methods to capture the capacity of performers to manage informational constraints in different competitive performance contexts. This chapter concludes that it may be instructive to interpret the data from an ecological dynamics perspective, to illustrate the complementary thinking.
