The present study examined the degree to which positive illusion is associated with sport performance in basketball players among 3 different cultures: The United States of America, Croatia, and Norway. Positive illusion is a cognitive characteristic that is common in mentally healthy individuals, and becomes especially important in the athletic arena. The model tested in this study depicts the...

The comparative study of aerobic power in different sports was conducted on 99 National Senior as well as National Junior players specialised in hockey and football, field games; volleyball and basketball, court games. The National Seniors were 27 hockey and 16 volleyball players, whereas, 32 football and 24 basketball players were the National Juniors. The maximal anaerobic power of the player...

There were two aims of this study: first, to investigate physical fitness and match performance differences between under-16 (U16) and under-18 (U18) female basketball players, and second, to evaluate the relationship between physical fitness and game-related performances. Twenty-three young, female, elite Spanish basketball players (16.2 1.2 years) participated in the study. The sample was div...

background the effect of psychological factors in the context of a growing number of sports, prevention of sports injuries, exercise rehabilitation and as an effective tool for managing stress and anxiety in the race has been confirmed by various studies ،the purpose of the present study was to determine the level of sport competitive anxiety in iranian elite basketball player and its relations...

BACKGROUND Lateral ankle sprains (LAS) are among the most common sports- related injuries and the reinjury rate is very high. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of some intrinsic risk factors among professional football and basketball players with or without history of acute or recurrent ankle sprain. PATIENTS AND METHODS One hundred and six professional football and bas...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has promising applications in basketball shooting analysis, as it can help athletes improve their techniques and accuracy, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of both games training sessions. This article provides a systematic review latest developments AI-based covering four main research topics: Basketball Shooting Posture / Training Type Recognition, Analysis Pos...

We investigate the effect of new facilities on attendance in professional baseball, basketball, and football from 1969 to 2001. We find a strong, persistent effect in baseball and basketball, and little effect in football. Size and duration estimates imply that baseball teams sell 2,500,794 additional tickets over the first eight seasons, basketball teams 293,878 over the first nine seasons, an...

Semantic sports video analysis has attracted more and more attention recently. In this paper, we present a basketball event detection method by using multiple modalities. Instead of using low-level features, the proposed method is built upon visual and auditory midlevel features i.e. semantic shot classes and audio keywords. Promising event detection results have been achieved. By heuristically...

We propose and study the problem of generative multi-agent behavioral cloning, where the goal is to learn a generative multi-agent policy from pre-collected demonstration data. Building upon advances in deep generative models, we present a hierarchical policy framework that can tractably learn complex mappings from input states to distributions over multi-agent action spaces. Our framework is f...

background: self-talk can be described as what people say to themselves either obviously or non-obviously. self-talk has been known as someone talks inside or quietly. as a matter of fact, self-talk is self-communication which can occur in several situations. objective: together the athlete’s perceptions of the self-talk intervention and its relationship to their performance to obtain informati...