Skill and Chance in Association Football
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...…shown in Table 3 are representative of indicators used in recent research to identify these types of tactical play; examples in soccer include Reep and Benjamin (1968), Hughes et al. (1988), Partridge and Franks (1989a,b), Garganta et al. (1997), Olsen and Larsen (1997) and Pettit and Hughes…...
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...…used statistical models to describe aspects of individual matches themselves: Chedzoy (1995) informally investigated times when goals are scored; Reep and Benjamin (1968) modelled the number and type of passing moves within a game; Clarke and Norman (1995) investigated the advantage of playing…...
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...It was further concluded that the manner in which the data were presented by Reep and Benjamin (1968) has lead to only a partial understanding of the phenomenon under investigation....
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...The data collected on goals scored for each possession ‘‘passing sequence’’ (see Figure 1) were in agreement with the results of Reep and Benjamin (1968)....
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...This simple analysis of one variable shows that there may be other interpretations of Reep and Benjamin’s (1968) data....
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...The interpretation of the empirical model posed by Reep and Benjamin (1968), by researchers and coaches (e.g. Hughes, 1987; Bate, 1988; Franks, 1989), did not appear to fit the performance characteristics at all levels of soccer....
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...Bate (1988) extended some of these ideas by exploring aspects of chance in football and its relation to tactics and strategy in light of the results presented by Reep and Benjamin (1968) and data from unpublished research collected by Hughes in 1987....
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...More recently, Hughes and Franks (2005), taking as reference the research from Reep and Benjamin (1968), used data normalisation and regression analysis to further explore the results....
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