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Challenges and considerations in determining the quality of electronic performance & tracking systems for team sports
Robertson, Samuel J. Duthie, Grant Malcolm Ball, Kevin Spencer, Bartholomew Serpiello, Fabio Haycraft, Jade Evans, Nicolas Billingham, Johsan Aughey, Robert
Robertson, Samuel J.
Duthie, Grant Malcolm
Ball, Kevin
Spencer, Bartholomew
Serpiello, Fabio
Haycraft, Jade
Evans, Nicolas
Billingham, Johsan
Aughey, Robert
Abstract
Electronic performance & tracking systems (EPTS) are commonly used to track the location and velocity of athletes in many team sports. A range of associated applications using the derived data exist, such as assessment of athlete characteristics, informing training design, assisting match adjudication
and providing fan insights for broadcast. Consequently the quality of such systems is of importance to a range of stakeholders. The influence of both systematic and methodological factors such as hardware, software settings, sample rate and filtering on this resulting quality is non- trivial. Highlighting these allows for the user to understand their strengths and limitations in various decision-making processes, as well as identify areas for research and development. In this paper, a number of challenges and considerations relating to the determination of EPTS validity for team sport are outlined and discussed. The aim of this paper is to draw attention of these factors to both researchers and practitioners looking to inform their decision-making in the EPTS area. Addressing some of the posited considerations in future work may represent best practice; others may require further investigation, have multiple potential solutions or currently be intractable.
Keywords
GPS, optical, football, soccer, tracking
Date
2023
Type
Journal article
Journal
Book
Volume
5
Issue
Page Range
1-12
Article Number
ACU Department
School of Behavioural and Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
Relation URI
Event URL
Open Access Status
Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
License
CC BY 4.0
File Access
Open
Notes
© 2023 Robertson, Duthie, Ball, Spencer, Serpiello, Haycraft, Evans, Billingham and Aughey.
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.