Interactions between soccer teams reveal both design and emergence: cooperation, competition and Zipf-Mandelbrot regularity

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Autor(a) principal: Ramos, J.
Data de Publicação: 2020
Outros Autores: Lopes, R. J., Araújo, D.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/20642
Resumo: Considering soccer matches as complex systems facilitates the identification of properties that emerge from the interactions between players. Such properties include the regularities and statistical patterns that characterize couplings and sets between players established during matches. Empirical studies on the statistical distributions of number of items (e.g., words in texts) have shown that these distribu- tions follow scaling properties according to empirical laws known as Zipf-Mandelbrot. Here we investigate whether the (re)occurrence of pitch location of sets of players in a soccer match also obeys these empiri- cal laws. Data collected from 10 soccer matches shows that, for most sets of players, this seems to be the case. Exceptions were found in particular types of sets, such as goalkeeper and goal, and left defender and right attacker from opposite teams. Rather than challenging the hypothesis that a Zipf-Mandelbrot law defines this system, these exceptions may be explained by the players configuration design, which is a trait of human interaction within complex systems. This design expresses match strategy, before the team enters in such dynamical processes (the game).
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Interactions between soccer teams reveal both design and emergence: cooperation, competition and Zipf-Mandelbrot regularity
title Interactions between soccer teams reveal both design and emergence: cooperation, competition and Zipf-Mandelbrot regularity
spellingShingle Interactions between soccer teams reveal both design and emergence: cooperation, competition and Zipf-Mandelbrot regularity
Ramos, J.
Multilevel hypernetworks
Zipf-Mandelbrot regularity
Design
Soccer performance analysis
title_short Interactions between soccer teams reveal both design and emergence: cooperation, competition and Zipf-Mandelbrot regularity
title_full Interactions between soccer teams reveal both design and emergence: cooperation, competition and Zipf-Mandelbrot regularity
title_fullStr Interactions between soccer teams reveal both design and emergence: cooperation, competition and Zipf-Mandelbrot regularity
title_full_unstemmed Interactions between soccer teams reveal both design and emergence: cooperation, competition and Zipf-Mandelbrot regularity
title_sort Interactions between soccer teams reveal both design and emergence: cooperation, competition and Zipf-Mandelbrot regularity
author Ramos, J.
author_facet Ramos, J.
Lopes, R. J.
Araújo, D.
author_role author
author2 Lopes, R. J.
Araújo, D.
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Ramos, J.
Lopes, R. J.
Araújo, D.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Multilevel hypernetworks
Zipf-Mandelbrot regularity
Design
Soccer performance analysis
topic Multilevel hypernetworks
Zipf-Mandelbrot regularity
Design
Soccer performance analysis
description Considering soccer matches as complex systems facilitates the identification of properties that emerge from the interactions between players. Such properties include the regularities and statistical patterns that characterize couplings and sets between players established during matches. Empirical studies on the statistical distributions of number of items (e.g., words in texts) have shown that these distribu- tions follow scaling properties according to empirical laws known as Zipf-Mandelbrot. Here we investigate whether the (re)occurrence of pitch location of sets of players in a soccer match also obeys these empiri- cal laws. Data collected from 10 soccer matches shows that, for most sets of players, this seems to be the case. Exceptions were found in particular types of sets, such as goalkeeper and goal, and left defender and right attacker from opposite teams. Rather than challenging the hypothesis that a Zipf-Mandelbrot law defines this system, these exceptions may be explained by the players configuration design, which is a trait of human interaction within complex systems. This design expresses match strategy, before the team enters in such dynamical processes (the game).
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