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Injuries to professional athletes can affect team performance and morale, not to mention the bottom line.

The value of sport science to practical, real-world applications continues to progress as teams apply greater discipline to their data and analytics approach. But for practitioners, it is often difficult to know where to start, which variable to collect, and how to have a meaningful impact on training practices, players’ health, and overall team performance.

With a World Cup programmed from November 20th to December 18th, 2022, the governing bodies had to modify the schedule of the domestic leagues and cups as well as European and international competitions. On the other hand, for some leagues such as Major League Soccer the situation is reversed as this World Cup occurs after a full season.

With a World Cup programmed from November 20th to December 18th, 2022, the governing bodies had to modify the schedule of the domestic leagues and cups as well as European and international competitions. On the other hand, for some leagues such as Major League Soccer the situation is reversed as this World Cup occurs after a full season.

Everything in life is about balance. From ancient Greek history, we have learned that balancing work and recovery is compulsory for optimal health and performance.

Learn how sprinting speed rates correlate to the frequency of hamstring injuries + get relevant strategies to decrease time lost due to these injuries.

We look at a really interesting topic with no easy answer: planning the microcycle in elite football.

Recent advances in techniques to explain machine learning models are opening up models that were previously considered black box models. This, in conjunction with the injection of sports domain knowledge and club context through robust data explorations, feature engineering and feature selection, combine to allow practitioners to see the reasoning behind the model outputs and enable them to incorporate into their decision-making.

In this post, we provide further insights into the ‘expected’ injury counts per week/month of hamstring strain, which is the most common injury encountered in elite football (soccer) (Ekstrand, 2021).

Injuries happen. We may put a lot of effort into different strategies trying to mitigate them, but unfortunately they still happen.