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23/08/2018
Data Preparation for Injury Prediction
By Mladen Jovanovic on 23/08/2018I have recently wrote a technical note (actually a video) for Sport Performance and Science Reports journal regarding Data Preparation for Injury Prediction. Both data and R core are available on GitHub repository.
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07/06/2018
Contemporary Factors Impacting Match Performances Of Elite Soccer Players
By Mladen Jovanovic on 07/06/2018I accidentally stumbled on this outstanding piece of work on Twitter, thanks to Paul Glazier’s tweet. I am more than happy that this thesis is publicly available from the Uni and thanks to the author, Michael D. Bush for outstanding research and writing.
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30/05/2018
Profiling Issues – Mind Your Target Variable
By Mladen Jovanovic on 30/05/2018This is VERY IMPORTANT concept and if you are doing any type of profiling, I urge you to watch this video.
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20/05/2018
Bootstrap Magnitude Based Predictions (BMBP)
By Mladen Jovanovic on 20/05/2018There has been a lot of fuss regarding Magnitude Based Inference (MBI) lately, peaking with the recent article and video by Kristin Sainani. The originators of MBI, Will Hopkins and Alan Batterham, recently posted their commentary of the critiques at sportsci.org. With the video below I wanted to give my opinion, but also provide rationale for “novel” techniques, that...
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08/05/2018
Variable Clustering and Archetypal Analysis
By Mladen Jovanovic on 08/05/2018I believe that the following video and the accompanying R code and data set will be very useful to sport scientists out there and will teach them extremely pragmatic technique in data mining.
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03/03/2018
Fantastic Sport Analytics Papers & Resources
By Mladen Jovanovic on 03/03/2018I have recently stumbled on a few great papers that outline very useful statistical techniques, that are VERY applicable to sport and training analytics. If you are interested in analytics, this is a gold mine.
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22/02/2018
Few Simple Improvements to Monitoring Data Analysis
By Mladen Jovanovic on 22/02/2018Most of us are collecting and analyzing training load data and readiness metrics (i.e. GPS training load, sRPE and wellness). The most common analysis method is to use two rolling averages windows – acute (around 7 days) and chronic (around 28 days) and to calculate their ratio, referred to as ACWR (Acute to Chronic Workload Ratio), or TSB (Training...
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21/11/2017
How to Analyze Training Load and Monitoring Data?
By Mladen Jovanovic on 21/11/2017In this video I am explaining two methods to deal with missing values and why you should pay attention to the way you are aggregating data (daily, team averages, body soreness, etc).
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28/10/2017
Sprint & Tempo Profile
By Dylan Hicks on 28/10/2017After spending hours listening to John Lythe’s YouTube tutorials, Excel Tricks For Sports, along with being inspired by Mladen’s excel wizardry, check out Strength Card Builder 4.0 (it will literally save you hours), I decided to make a template which track coaches could use with their athletes.
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12/10/2017
Shuttle Run Beep Test Improvement & New Test
By Mladen Jovanovic on 12/10/2017Few days ago, I spoke with Cameron Josse, who is Director of Sports Performance at DeFranco’s Gym, regarding simple (or should I say, Minimum Viable Program – MVPr) endurance test for football athletes. I have directed Cameron to the article Testing Endurance for Team Sport Athletes and my Shuttle Run Beep Test. Since we are on the same page...