The economics literature has long been divided regarding whether competing sports teams can achieve the same, efficient allocation of playing skills that a revenue-maximizing league monopolist would choose despite the external effects the teams impose on each other in their pursuit of athletic talent. In this article an explicit consideration of the arbitrage incentives that underlie the market...

The objective of this Consensus Statement is to provide physicians who are responsible for the healthcare of teams with guidelines regarding conditioning for sports. This statement specifically addresses the role of exercise in conditioning. Nutrition and supplements are outside the scope of this statement. It is not intended as a standard of care, and should not be interpreted as such. This st...

Sport social networks concern different types of relationship among athletes or teams in specific sports. Such networks have recently been used to address problems related to prediction of results of matches or championships and rankings of athletes or teams. In many cases, such analyses consider a complete and static view of the network that does not take into account the temporal nature of sp...

www.phil.frb.org Business Review Q2 2004 7 www.phil.frb.org Rapid population growth in many metropolitan areas in the United States has made them economically viable locations for professional sports franchises such as those of Major League Baseball (MLB) or the National Football League (NFL). But since all four of the major sports leagues tightly control both the creation of new franchises and...

Live webcast scripts are valuable resources for describing the process of sports games. This shared task aims to automatically generate sports news articles from live webcast scripts. The task can be considered a special case of single document summarization. In this overview paper, we will introduce the task, the evaluation dataset, the participating teams and the evaluation results. The datas...

In this work a balanced k-way partitioning problem with weight constraints is defined to model the sports team realignment. Sports teams must be partitioned into a fixed number of groups according to some regulations, where the total distance of the road trips that all teams must travel to play a Double Round Robin Tournament in each group is minimized. Two integer programming formulations for ...

This lecture discusses the characterization of effective teams (their complexity / variety) and the role of competition and cooperation in the formation of effective teams. The context for the discussion, sports, provides examples that are also relevant to many other aspects of society and biology.

The aim of this study was to identify the importance assigned by futsal coaches with different education levels to the sports performance factors (technical, tactical, physical and psychological) and to the training contents. The sample was divided into three groups (novice: n=35, intermediate: n=42; and elite coaches: n=15) depending on the degree of specific education, coaching experience and...

PURPOSE Performance analysis (PA) in football is considered to be an integral component of understanding the requirements for optimal performance. Despite vast amounts of research in this area key gaps remain, including what comprises PA in football, and methods to minimise research-practitioner gaps. The aim of this study was to develop a model of the football match system in order to better d...

OBJECT The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention on concussion knowledge within a sample of junior fourth-tier ice hockey players. METHODS A prospective cohort study, called the Hockey Concussion Education Project, was conducted during 1 junior ice hockey regular season (2009-2010) with 67 male fourth-tier ice hockey players (mean age 18.2 ± 1.2 ye...