Fundamentals of Sports Analytics.

Clin Sports Med

Department of Epidemiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Injury Prevention Research Center, Suite 500, Bank of America Building 7505, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.

Published: July 2018

AI Article Synopsis

  • The role of statistics and analytics in sports is becoming increasingly important, particularly in understanding sports injuries and performance.
  • The review outlines various research designs for assessing injury risk factors, injury surveillance, and common measures used to evaluate injury risk and association.
  • It aims to equip sports medicine clinicians with knowledge about current research methodologies and guidelines for designing effective sports injury research studies.

Article Abstract

Recently, the importance of statistics and analytics in sports has increased. This review describes measures of sports injury and fundamentals of sports injury research with a brief overview of some of the emerging measures of sports performance. We describe research study designs that can be used to identify risk factors for injury, injury surveillance programs, and common measures of injury risk and association. Finally, we describe measures of physical performance and training and considerations for using these measures. This review provides sports medicine clinicians with an understanding of current research measures and considerations for designing sports injury research studies.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csm.2018.03.007DOI Listing

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