A League-Wide Evaluation of Factors Influencing Match Activity Profile in Elite Australian Football.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Accurate interpretation of activity profile data requires an understanding of the variables influencing player movement during matches. Methods: Over 65,000 stints (player rotations) from all 207 matches of the 2018 Australian Football League (AFL) season were evaluated. The relative activity profile including total distance per minute (TD), high-speed running distance per minute (HSR) and Player Load^TM per minute (PL) was determined for each stint and analysed against a range of match-related, player-related and environment-related predictor variables using multivariate linear mixed modelling. Effect size statistics along with the uncertainty in the estimates (95% confidence interval) were used to interpret the findings. Results: The smallest

SUBMITTER: Esmaeili A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7739775 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature