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Archive for 2017

  • Netflix Prize and Injury Prediction Prize

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 13/03/2017

    The Netflix Prize was an open competition for the best collaborative filtering algorithm to predict user ratings for films, based on previous ratings without any other information about the users or films, i.e. without the users or the films being identified except by numbers assigned for the contest. Which made me think – why don’t the “rich” clubs, such...

  • Hamstring Injury Treatment

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 12/03/2017

    Given the prevalence of hamstring injuries in football, a rehabilitation program that effectively promotes muscle tissue repair and functional recovery is paramount to minimize re-injury risk and optimize player performance and availability.

  • Power BI Course for Sport Scientists – Video 2

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 11/03/2017

    Learning PowerBI, besides producing great dashboards is a great introduction to data analysis overall and data wrangling (cleaning and reshaping data). In this video I will show you the following: What is Query Editor and how powerful it is; The difference between Long and Wide data formats...

  • Uncertainty, Heuristics and Injury Prediction

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 07/03/2017

    I was asked by Rod Whiteley and Nicol van Dyk to contribute to the Aspetar Journal targeted topic issue that just got released off the press. I tried to combine my knowledge of predictive analytics, machine learning, philosophy of science, heuristics and practical experience as coach & sport scientist into one article. Hopefully I managed to create readable narrative.

  • Plyometric Progression with Coach Wilmot | Part 5

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 07/03/2017

    In episode 5, Coach Wilmot demonstrates some more complex training and pairing exercises to progress your athletes. Understanding contrast training to combine heavy movement with plyometric movement to activate post activation potentiation (PAP), Lachlan discusses how you can start to utilize the nervous system to stimulate greater jump heights and more force output.

  • Power BI Course for Sport Scientists – Video 1

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 04/03/2017

    I decided to create a course for sport scientists, to get you started with PowerBI. My bet is that PowerBI will become new Excel (if not already) and having the skills needed to produce reports will be needed as Excel skills are needed now. So, knowing how to learn PowerBI will put you ahead of the curve and...

  • Vacancies [March, 2017]

    By on 01/03/2017

    Here are the very interesting vacancies that are currently available. Please share or retweet and let’s get the word out!

  • What Free Courses to Take?

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 24/02/2017

    I find the following courses a must watch for all rational humans, regardless if you are a sport scientist or not.

  • Plyometric Progression with Coach Wilmot | Part 4

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 24/02/2017

    In this episode, Coach Wilmot shows us how to modify depth jumps to introduce athletes to lateral landing positions. Lachlan discusses the importance of torso and leg positioning while travelling over hurdles to ensure athletes maintain a strong active landing.

  • Plyometric Progression with Coach Wilmot | Part 3

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 21/02/2017

    In this episode, Coach Wilmot demonstrates how you can safely progress your athletes to various heights while still maintaining strong landing positions.