Performance Analysis in Game Sports: Concepts and Methods

This book offers a comprehensive overview on the methods and concepts of theoretical and practical performance analysis. Observational systems for action detection and tracking systems for position detection are introduced, starting from basic methodological principles. The issue of reliability testing is addressed for both methods, and examples of successful applications are provided.
The distinction between theoretical and practical performance as essential conceptual achievement is explained in two separate chapters. Most recent theoretical models of game sports are presented, including the dynamical systems perspective, stochastic modelling, and contingency or chance as part of the game. The practical chapter introduces the concept of comprehensive performance analysis as appropriate background. It deals with qualitative methods used for assessing player and team performances, strategy development, and methods and principles of video tactic training for successful transfer of the results of analyses.
The book will be of value to all with an interest in the dramatically increasing impact of performance analysis in game sports.

Martin Lames, Prof. Dr. Sportwiss. habil., is Chair for Training Science, Performance Analysis and Sport Informatics at the Technical University of Munich. Prior to taking up this position in 2009, he had been Professor for Movement Science and Training Science and Director of the Institute for Sports Science at the Universities of Augsburg and Rostock. Professor Lames has held a variety of important national and international organizational positions, including President (2013–) and General Secretary (2011–3) of the International Association for Computer Science in Sport (IACSS) and Vice-President of the German Association for Sports Science (2003–7). He is a member of the German Top Performance Sports Research Steering Commission, representing Sports Science, and of the Board of the International Society for Performance Analysis in Sports. Professor Lames is an editorial board member for the International Journal of Performance Analysis of Sport and the International Journal of Computer Science in Sport. He has conducted research on numerous topics in the field and has published widely.