Complex Systems in Sport

Keith Davids · Robert Hristovski · Duarte Araújo · Natalia Balague Serre · Chris Button · Pedro Passos

Nov 2013 · Routledge

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Complex systems in nature are those with many interacting parts, all capable of influencing global system outcomes. There is a growing body of research that has modeled sport performance from a complexity sciences perspective, studying the behavior of individual athletes and sports teams as emergent phenomena which self-organise under interacting constraints.

This book is the first to bring together experts studying complex systems in the context of sport from across the world to collate core theoretical ideas, current methodologies and existing data into one comprehensive resource. It offers new methods of analysis for investigating representative complex sport movements and actions at an individual and team level, exploring the application of methodologies from the complexity sciences in the context of sports performance and the organization of sport practice.

Complex Systems in Sport is important reading for any advanced student or researcher working in sport and exercise science, sports coaching, kinesiology or human movement.

About the author

Keith Davids is a Professor of Motor Control at the Centre for Sports Engineering Research at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Robert Hristovski
is Professor in the Faculty of Physical Education at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Republic of Macedonia.

Duarte Araújo
is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Human Kinetics at Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Natalia Balagué Serre
is Professor of Exercise Physiology in the INEFC at the University of Barcelona, Spain.

Chris Button
is Associate Professor in the School of Physical Education at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Pedro Passos
is Assistant Professor of Motor Control in the Faculty of Human Kinetics at the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.

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