ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on individual and team games in elite professional sport. It addresses sport analysts and scholars studying these games in the human biology sciences, sport medicine, psychology, sport coaching and also the management sciences. The book emphasizes a number of principles and categories that emerged which were not cited earlier in the widespread discussion about further development of contemporary sport analytics. One of the most essential outcomes of the chapter is the enrichment of traditional analytics by the complexity approach for all human systems acting in a field that is studied or served by analysts. The book suggests that for analytics to be a realistic operation, in each complicated case of decision making an exclusive decision maker must be considered beforehand and conventionally defended as a rational subject.
