That is the bad news. It is more difficult to improve athletes and make them better at their desired sports. But there is some good news. It won’t always be this way. Eventually the situation for players, coaches and teams will get better. And there is just one reason for both: technology. Make that two […]
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Last Week in Applied Sports Science, 2/8-2/14
At the beginning of the NBA season you could tell that sports science was going to play a major part in whatever happened. The team that wins the Eastern conference will be the team that improves the most during the season, and the team that wins the Western conference will be the team that has […]
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Last week the U.S. Soccer Federation sent me a draft of a job description to do data collection and analysis for the Development Academy. Reading it you can almost feel the pull in different directions between sports management people (looking for an administrator to fill the post) and people more interested in sports science (looking for […]
Read More →Multifactorial talent development
The path forward from Point A, the start, to Point B, the goal, is a guess. The more challenging the goal the greater the number of things that need to happen to reach it. If all of those things have some uncertainty, some likelihood less than 100% of happening, the final probability of making it […]
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The USMNT soccer team faltered late in the match it played against Chile, after playing a winning opening 45+ minutes. This has been a team that seeks competitive advantage with the physical endurance it possesses. U.S. players were running hard during the later stages as Chile scored twice to take the lead. They were not, […]
Read More →Behavior employees; Employees’ behavior
The Red Sox announced two weeks ago that the team hired sports psychologist Richard Ginsburg to helm a new department of behavioral health. Most of the business hiring for people who get behavior-monitoring responsibility is to improve companies’ service and product outputs, not to put an inward focus on employees. Still, the attachment of behavior to business […]
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The U.S. Soccer Federation held a first of its kind Medical Symposium during the recent National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) convention in Philadelphia. The goal, according to the U.S. Soccer news report, was to spend 2 days focused on health issues that cut across youth, amateur and professional soccer. Player health is something […]
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Game by game, week by week, season by season the evidence piles up that healthier teams are better teams. News stories about the Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bulls are positive and negative takes on how health equals wins. Looking at the injury problems of current NBA rookies highlights a larger problem. Bad teams are more […]
Read More →Hard-Easy-Easy, Repeat
I lived in Chicago for the entire 2010-11 NBA season, the year the Mavericks won the championship and the year Derrick Rose won the MVP. That season was peak Rose. History might also make that team the peak-Thibodeau Bulls, but that depends on how this year’s Bulls team does. This year’s Bulls team has been great at […]
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The Seattle Seahawks look lively, especially for a team that has been playing football since August. They look championship-ready. I think the Seahawks believe they are championship-ready. As Richard Sherman said in an SI.com article about the victory, “Championships are won in the playoffs.” From what I saw, Kam Chancellor was a better athlete than […]
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