Investigating trade-offs made by American football linebackers using tracking data

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-07-21 DOI:10.1515/jqas-2022-0091

Eric Eager, Tej Seth

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Abstract

Abstract In recent years, the game of football has made a shift towards being more quantitative. With the advent of charting and tracking data, player evaluation is able to be studied from several different angles. In this paper, we build and refine two novel metrics: Bite Distance Under Expected (BDUE) and Ground Covered Over Expected (GCOE) for the evaluation of linebackers in the National Football League (NFL). Here, we show that these metrics are heavily correlated with each other, which demonstrates the trade-off linebackers have to make between being aggressive against the run and being effective when the opposing offense is using play-action. We also show that these metrics are more stable than those in the public space. Finally, we show how these metrics measure deception by opposing offenses.

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利用追踪数据调查美式橄榄球中后卫的取舍

摘要近年来，足球运动向着量化方向发展。随着图表和追踪数据的出现，玩家评估可以从多个不同的角度进行研究。在本文中，我们建立并完善了两个新的指标:咬距低于预期(BDUE)和地面覆盖超过预期(GCOE)，用于评估国家橄榄球联盟(NFL)的线卫。在这里，我们展示了这些指标彼此之间的高度相关性，这表明了线卫必须在对抗跑动的侵略性和当对方进攻使用动作时的有效性之间做出权衡。我们还表明，这些指标比公共空间的指标更稳定。最后，我们展示了这些指标是如何通过反对冒犯来衡量欺骗的。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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