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This research topic advocates a multidisciplinary approach to understand team sports by hypothetically treating performance as a mosaic, where each piece—whether psychological, physical, tactical, or contextual—plays an essential role in completing the picture. By encouraging submissions that integrate psychological aspects such as mental fatigue, perceived exertion, anxiety, mood, and stress with physical, physiological, and tactical variables, this collection seeks to enrich the current understanding and methodologies employed in team sports analysis.
The desired manuscripts should encompass the following perspectives, ideally within a combined framework:
• Physical and Physiological Demands: Metrics such as GPS and accelerometer tracking data, heart rate, blood lactate, neuromuscular response and respiratory frequencies provide essential insights into the athletes' physical engagement during play.
• Cognitive, Psychological and Emotional Factors: Indicators including mental fatigue and cognitive demands, anxiety, mood states, stress levels, and psychological activation can be correlated with performance metrics to offer a holistic view of the athlete’s competition and training environment.
• Technical and Tactical Analysis: Recognized performance indicators, such as points, goals, passes, tackles, and strategic formations, are fundamental for a comprehensive and contextualized performance analysis.
• Contextual Influences: Factors like game location, scoreline, opponent level, and phase of the season are crucial for contextualizing data.
• Perceptual Metrics: Athlete-reported measures like wellness and recovery add valuable subjective insights that should be integrated with objective data to form a fuller understanding of performance dynamics.
Contributors are encouraged to include data from both training scenarios and competitive matches, providing they incorporate the listed domains. The findings should aim to present practical, actionable strategies that coaches and sport scientists can implement. Moreover, this cross-disciplinary initiative welcomes studies across all demographics, from professional to amateur and youth levels, including adapted sports.
By fostering a comprehensive evaluation that aligns physiological, psychological, and tactical data, this Research Topic aims to revolutionize how performance in team sports is analyzed and enhanced. Through such multidisciplinary contributions, the field can progress towards more sophisticated and practically relevant sports science practices
Information for authors: Please be aware that this research topic is cross-listed with multiple journals and sections. When submitting your manuscripts, please ensure that they fall within the scope of the journal and sections to which you are submitting. Kindly note that the Exercise Physiology section only considers manuscripts that focus on the physiological mechanisms underlying the acute response to exercise as well as the adaptation to exercise from the molecular and cellular level to individual systems. Please see here the scope statement of the section.
here.
This research topic advocates a multidisciplinary approach to understand team sports by hypothetically treating performance as a mosaic, where each piece—whether psychological, physical, tactical, or contextual—plays an essential role in completing the picture. By encouraging submissions that integrate psychological aspects such as mental fatigue, perceived exertion, anxiety, mood, and stress with physical, physiological, and tactical variables, this collection seeks to enrich the current understanding and methodologies employed in team sports analysis.
The desired manuscripts should encompass the following perspectives, ideally within a combined framework:
• Physical and Physiological Demands: Metrics such as GPS and accelerometer tracking data, heart rate, blood lactate, neuromuscular response and respiratory frequencies provide essential insights into the athletes' physical engagement during play.
• Cognitive, Psychological and Emotional Factors: Indicators including mental fatigue and cognitive demands, anxiety, mood states, stress levels, and psychological activation can be correlated with performance metrics to offer a holistic view of the athlete’s competition and training environment.
• Technical and Tactical Analysis: Recognized performance indicators, such as points, goals, passes, tackles, and strategic formations, are fundamental for a comprehensive and contextualized performance analysis.
• Contextual Influences: Factors like game location, scoreline, opponent level, and phase of the season are crucial for contextualizing data.
• Perceptual Metrics: Athlete-reported measures like wellness and recovery add valuable subjective insights that should be integrated with objective data to form a fuller understanding of performance dynamics.
Contributors are encouraged to include data from both training scenarios and competitive matches, providing they incorporate the listed domains. The findings should aim to present practical, actionable strategies that coaches and sport scientists can implement. Moreover, this cross-disciplinary initiative welcomes studies across all demographics, from professional to amateur and youth levels, including adapted sports.
By fostering a comprehensive evaluation that aligns physiological, psychological, and tactical data, this Research Topic aims to revolutionize how performance in team sports is analyzed and enhanced. Through such multidisciplinary contributions, the field can progress towards more sophisticated and practically relevant sports science practices
Information for authors: Please be aware that this research topic is cross-listed with multiple journals and sections. When submitting your manuscripts, please ensure that they fall within the scope of the journal and sections to which you are submitting. Kindly note that the Exercise Physiology section only considers manuscripts that focus on the physiological mechanisms underlying the acute response to exercise as well as the adaptation to exercise from the molecular and cellular level to individual systems. Please see here the scope statement of the section.
Keywords: performance, training, physical demands, physiology, psychology, contextual factors, perceived exertion, athlete monitoring
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
